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The Handicapper
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Spec Lyrics by Kevin Depew
To the tune of Chet Baker's "Let's Get Lost"
*slightly adjusted for financial consideration:
Let's get alpha, alpha in each of our trades
Let's get alpha, let them send out brigades
And though they'll think us just a rube
Let's tell the world we're in that crazy mood.
Let's defrost all the bearish myths
Let's get crossed off every doomsday list
To celebrate this difficult endeavor, mmm, let's get alpha
[horn solo] [piano solo]
Let's defrost all the bearish myths
Let's get crossed off every doomsday list
To celebrate this difficult endeavor, mmm, let's get alpha
Oh oh, let's get alpha.
Johnny Cash sings "Walk the Line"
*but some Specs sing, "The Bottom Line"
I keep a close watch on this stock of mine
I keep eyes wide open all the time
I set a loose stop in case a big decline
I hope you mind, the bottom line
I find it very, very tempting to sell you
I find myself alone in owning you
Yes, I'll admit, I paid too much for you
You didn't mind, the bottom line
As sure as value is dark and growth is light
I keep you on my watch list day and night
And since momentum says you are alright
I will not mind, your bottom line
And yet your stock price will not turn the tide
Because you're mine, I curse my pride
I keep a close watch on this stock of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
Oh Lord, I fear a very big decline
Who cares about, the bottom line
Kevin Depew is an editor at www.minyanville.com in New York City. In a previous life in Kentucky, he was a handicapper at the Daily Racing Form. In 2004, he gave up gambling on horses for a living in the stock market. "I still pursue the sport rigorously because in many ways it precedes the stock market in majesty, awfulness, despair, grandeur, indecency, scam artistry, forgery, disillusionment, profits, loss, deception and flattery. Or maybe, being a native Kentuckian, it simply precedes the stock market in the way it speaks to my heart and my ability to comprehend such things."e;