On this date in 1900, Charles H. Dow, in the Wall Street Journal, said the following:
“The iron trade, while improving from one point of view, is in a position where the surface is unfavorable. When it is decided to reach bedrock prices by allowing everybody to make prices to suit himself, it means the survival of the fittest. The process of crushing out the least fit will be unpleasant for the victims and will make the situation appear worse than the facts really are.”
-Laura Sether. Dow Theory Unplugged. W&A Publishing. 2009.