Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.
We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.
We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments.
After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.
I still love the semiconductor industry.
If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.
