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    ‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters

    Just from reading online... the Solar Maunder Minimum (well document sun spot cycle)... will/may usher us into a several year period of planet cooling. That will knock all the "AGW supporters' dick into the dirt"... as man-made carbon influence is just a "grain of sand on the beach" in impact...
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    Gold A "Safe Haven" In This Market Decline?

    Whatever you hope/think/believe/fear... TRADE THE CHART! You won't have to guess about any other.
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    Gold A "Safe Haven" In This Market Decline?

    You are "on point". What's important is that you're tuned into the technical significance of 1240 at this time. (Not saying "1240 is THE key price point", but it's "A" key trading point for now.)
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    Gold A "Safe Haven" In This Market Decline?

    Yes. Not only "break above 1240", but subsequently hold that price on subsequent dips.
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    Australians have lost more than $35.8 million to investment scams in 2018 so far

    They need call screeners and call blockers.
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    Strongest names bounce the hardest or weakest name bounce the hardest?

    "Bottom fishing" in a declining market is always hazardous... but if you insist suggest picking from either "those which declined least" (high RS), or "those which declined most" (most oversold). No way to tell in advance which will do better on a rebound. Good luck.
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    Gold A "Safe Haven" In This Market Decline?

    Some folks are saying yes.. but maybe not. Years back, there was a market decline... and I was thanking my lucky stars that I was already loaded in gold issues. Market was smashing, my golds were rallying smartly. But it didn't last long. Gold soon caught up on the downside. In the last...
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    The Scaravan

    Head to the nearest welfare office and sign up... you know, so the US taxpayers can pony up for their support and maintenance. (Not to mention the DemoCraps sneaking them into voting booths.)
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    19 important points you should know about iShares EFA before you buy it

    Wouldn't any of this apply only if you intended to B&H? For swing trading, none of this matters.
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    "Even if you had a balanced portfolio, everything went down.”

    "... There are no growth companies, only growth periods".
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    Paul Tudor Jones: Corporate Credit Will Cause the Next Crisis

    Read a post somewhere... "Corporate debt [defaults?] will be the trigger for the next recession/bear market". Hey... some corporations "borrowed their asses off at zero interest rates to do stock buy-backs". That seemed to be OK so long as it didn't "cost anything" for interest rate carry...
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    Important note...

    Bull markets tend to "hold support and break resistance". Bear markets tend to "hold resistance and break supports". Suggest keeping that in mind as things develop.... FWIW...
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    How stupid are the people of Iowa?

    Yup. "Hate Trump"... mantra of the Leftists. Worst part... they don't even have a legitimate bitch about Trump. They're basically just brainwashed droids, spewing what the evil programmers stuffed into their soft brains.
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    The missing feature from every back tesing platform

    Stops are a form of hedge. So is a cash position.
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    The missing feature from every back tesing platform

    Not sure, but I heard it a long time ago. Perhaps from the late, great Ed Hart.
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    The missing feature from every back tesing platform

    You know what they say... "There are old traders and there are bold traders... but there are no old, bold traders". :)
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    The missing feature from every back tesing platform

    As a trader gets older, he should focus even more on not taking any large losses... capital preservation, #1. If he misses a profit opportunity, so be it. He still has his capital intact to play for the next one.
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    The missing feature from every back tesing platform

    "Better entries" = taking a position closer to support/resistance... so that you have both a "low amount to risk" and a "resonable place to stop out as per the charts". (Contrast that notion with "waiting for the MACD cross to confirm the trade".) I had several buys and sells all through the...
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    What risk management mistake did optionsellers.com fund manager do to blow up his fund and clients?

    Looks like the rally lasted 8 days. About half of that on the peak price day (8th)... don't know about intraday move on the last day.
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    WOLF VERSUS DOG - Who would win?

    On the surface seems to me to be no comparison. Wolf... 150 pounds of animal that kills prey to survive (a few times a week, daily?) + has likely had to fight another of his kind at least a few times for his place in the pack. What breed of dog could have much of a chance in a fight?
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