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May 21, 2018

Greatest Investment-Related Tweet of All Time

This may very well be it. When it rains, it pours: how about this one!
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    Trading can be hazardous to one's finances, mental and physical health and probably in many other ways I forget or do not yet know about.

    The blog posts that list the trades I put on and how they turn out as well as the more general ones about market direction are just one person's trading and opinion. They are neither investment advice nor encouragement to trade.

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