9 Using Horizon Preference No Matter Your Long-Term View As I offered in my introduction, my goal in writing this book is to share the insights and conclusions I have come to through the framework of socionomics. My hope is to help investors see what I now see in the markets and the world around us so that they can prosper from it. I was not trying to write either a Dow 50,000 or Dow 5,000 book. To be clear, I hope my mood-based assessment of the past 20 years is not just wrong, but that it's very wrong. I don't