Last
Tuesday’s torpedo like collapse of the potash related stocks was a wake up call
to investors who may have forgotten that no fundamental or technical study
works all the time.
So here is the bad news on torpedoes. There
is no fundamental or technical defence against your stock being hit by a
torpedo.
The
good news is that you have choices on how to react to the torpedo. In other
words, do you react and sell now, or do you not react and hold on to your
position? The choice you make depends on the nature of the exogenous event.
If
the exogenous event is deemed to be just the beginning of a series of
unresolved issues such as in the Sino-Forest example, you should sell and don’t
look back.
The
technical rule is that a stock will only react (or torpedo) once in response to
a one-issue exogenous event.So in the case of the potash stocks – if you are long, just
hold on to your original position.
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