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We will see what happens today. Big rundown overnight. So there will either be lots of profit taking or panic selling today. Or a combination. There should be plenty of action today either way.

First, USA population is growing, which means that Federal tax revenue needs to grow too. Multiple economists, including Greenspan (with Stockman being the latest), have discredited the theory that tax cuts work. My theory is to NEVER cut taxes as the population is steadily growing, but to...

The Fed's decision to buy gov't debt might have set the long term fate of this country. The problem is too much gov't debt. Yet, the Fed has just stated by their actions that much more gov't debt is acceptable. I don't know about third world status as we need to see how foreign markets react...

LOL, I've been saying the exact same thing repeatedly on ET. It is hard to believe a diehard Republican agrees. Ending the gold standard was the catalyst, the Reagan/BushI/BushII debt runup fueled the fire.

Check out how much the salaries, benefits, and pensions of state and local govt workers have increased over the last 10 years. This has nothing to do with too little taxes collected.

Good points. But, they are still focused on a static situation and not the dynamic situation of late 1941. USSr lost over 100,000 tanks and 100,000 planes during WW2 and a lot of those losses were in 1941. THere was a statistic in a book as to how few tanks/planes USSr had in late 1941, but I...

Also, the following post states that East Siberia has anywhere from 7 to 75 billions of oil. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Energy_profile_of_China

Read the following post. There was WAY more oil in Siberia just waiting to be taken. Indonesia only produces about 1 million barrels per day even now. Indonesia is also farther away from Japan than Siberia, with all of the distance being water, while virtually all of the distance from Siberia...

Everything you mentioned is probably overtraded right now. Need to find something completely new or underused. Consider finding a profitable strategy as a PHD thesis. To get a Phd, you need to find something original for the most part.

It's not a big deal but the def of PF I use is (gain of profitable trades)/(loss of losing trades). So, PF has to be over 1. So, the strat in this post would have a R:R of just over 1 from the numbers posted. What is your definition of PF?

You mean 1.34 right?

Interesting systems. Roughly how many trades per day do they produce?

USSR relocated their Mongolian units to defend Moscow when they were told by a spy Japan would not attack. Also, Germany destroyed an extremely high % of USSR tanks during 1941/early 1942. At one point in that time period, USSr only had a few thousand tanks left, mostly near Moscow. So, I...

Check a map of Europe from around early 1942. Germany, and their Allies, controlled virtually all of Europe except for the UK islands. They had plenty of manpower. The problem was that, once the US entered the war, the US spent 85% of it's resources to fight Germany and only 15% to fight...

The key is whether the constant positive spin from our leaders can overshadow the actual poor economic numbers, as has been the case for the last month or so.

Germany lost WWII because Japan attacked USA, which forced Germany to declare war on USA. American companies were already working on plans to do business with Germany at the time of Pearl Harbor. So, If Japan had attacked USSR instead, I don't think USA would have declared war on Germany...

I agree that things might be much worse now. People actually had money saved up then. The relatively high interest rates encouraged people to sock some of their earnings away, unlike now where good savings rates can't be found, and the stock market is kind of risky to all except short term...

The last two budgets signed into law under Bush II had $1T+ deficits( the bailout was $800B alone). The $400B numbers don't include everything.

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This trade finished a little while back with a ~12% loss on a small position size. Combined with the ~12% gain I posted earlier under another post and two small scalp losses, I'm about even on this attempt to swing the 3x ETFs overnight with small position, high stop/target trades. Looking for...