Mar

15

Today is the Ides of March, a phrase that has come to mean foreboding or doom. It is generally associated with the assassination of Julius Caesar, by the Liberatores (Liberators), who did not think of themselves as murders. They considered what they had done tyrannicide.

Legend has it that Caesar was summoned to the Senate and warned by the soothsayer Titus to "beware the Ides of March." Caesar was later approached by a soothsayer on his way to the senate and said, "Well, the Ides of March are come" to which the seer replied, "aye, but they are not gone."

Enter Brutus and the others and the rest is history.

Some see it as a liberating event. Some see it as the death of one of the greatest leaders in the history of the world. Historical opinions are based on suppositions of what might otherwise have been.

Some see today's market movement as the calm before the storm. Some see it as the beginning of the next big move up. But unlike suppositions of historical opinions, market opinions are laid bare for the whole world to see.

I guess very shortly we'll all get a glimpse under the toga of the market mistress to see what side of history we come down on!

The good news is, that right or wrong, we'll all still likely be alive next week to play another game against the Mistress. Thank goodness it's the Market Mistress and not Brutus!


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