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The American economy and subsequently the dollar is suffering largely because of 3 things:

1. The Iraq War
2. The policies of the Federal Reserve (which is not government owned)
3. The real estate industry including but not limited to the banking system, the National Association of Realtors (NAR), property appraisers, and mortgage brokers

1. The electric car
2. The air car

These are just a few of some very important issues that have affected the US economy and how other nations view the US. Since I am not writing a book, I will just briefly delve into these different issues. I strongly recommend that you do your own research. Truth is exposed when you look at all the facts from many sources.

The Economy’s Woes

One of the most obvious reasons why this economy is just less than spectacular is because of all the money that is being spent in Iraq. No one ever talks about how this war affects the average American citizen. No one ever explains that the US citizen is the US economy. If we don’t have money to spend or are unwilling to spend the money that we do have, the economy either slows down and/or comes to a halt. So it’s very easy to see that as we go so goes the economy. To make matters worse, every dollar that is printed and put into circulation has debt calculated into its value. What this means is that each dollar is borrowed money. The money is borrowed by the US government from the Federal Reserve. But how does the government pay this debt? Taxes. So we the people pay taxes in part to pay off the government’s debt to the Fed. But the only currency that we can pay taxes with is the dollar itself, which creates an infinite loop. To take it a step further, the interest is compounded.

Prior to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration took the US into debt when there was a major surplus. So the money that was needed to initiate the invasion didn’t even exist. Well it didn’t exist for No Child Left Behind. So Bush got Congress to authorize borrowing more money from the Fed. As the fed authorized the government to print more money, the dollar weakened which means that the interest owed per dollar increased because it takes more money to pay the same amount of interest. Again, the debt will be paid by the people. As I stated earlier, the people are the economy. One thing that people don’t think about is that the dollar has no “real” value. The dollar is not backed by any precious metals, resources, real estate, technology, intellectual property, or anything that any person or country can appraise. The dollar is not real money. It’s fiat money that is backed by nothing. If a country wants to cripple the US, they only need to reevaluate the dollar. The problem with that is this would cripple the global economy as well. So the US, as well as other countries, are in a precarious position. The only countries that are on solid ground, sort of solid ground, are the oil countries and countries rich in natural resources. If there is a worldwide economic collapse, they can always barter. The countries that don’t have a lot of natural resources may have to sell/trade away their land if it is of strategic benefit to a resource-rich country. But of course, resource-poor countries will be swindled out of their land because they’re desperate.

“REAL” Estate

Land will continue to be one of the most prized possessions on this planet. Unfortunately, most people don’t think about it in a meaningful way. The real estate market is experiencing the bubble burst phenomenon. I believe that the real estate industry as a whole is partially responsible, especially the executives and CEO’s sitting at the helm of this industry. Many of these men and women are not dumb bunnies. There are many college graduates and MBA’s that fill these ranks. There is also years upon years of experience that fill their collective brain trust. I find it ludicrous to believe that they did not see this coming. Alan Greenspan referred to the activities of investors as irrational exuberance when referring to the stock market circa 1996. Many of those financial guys/gals, stock brokers, financial analysts, and pundits alike didn’t like Greenspan’s real assessment of the financial climate. As far as these financial guys were concerned the market needed to keep going up so long as they continued to sell financial products. About 4 years later the market gave back a lot of its winnings. 401(K)s, TSAs, mutual funds, stocks and other financial instruments lost around 50% of their market value (give or take a few points).

So if you look at the real estate market, you don’t have to be Greenspan to realize that prices shot up too fast, too high, and in too short a time. But too many average Joes and Janes were giddy with the prices their homes were now worth. To dig an even deeper ditch, a lot of homeowners sold their current homes for a higher priced newer home with their newfound equity only to learn that the property taxes you pay for higher priced homes is really high for the average Joe and Jane. Combine that with excessive subprime lending and you have a major problem. A lot of people don’t realize that subprime lenders were allowed to give loans based on relaxed lending criteria. By who? Know one ever talks about that.

“Fed” eral Policies

The Fed (Federal Reserve) tells banks what rules they can lend by. The fed also tells banks how much cash they must keep in reserves. The Fed dictates how much currency will be in circulation in our economy. The Fed is the bank behind all banks. There are really smart guys and gals that work over there at the Fed. It’s naive to think that they did not see this one coming. It is naive to think that the good people over at the National Association of Realtors could not imagine that the real estate market was experiencing an episode of irrational exuberance. This phrase was coined only a few years earlier by a man who ran the Fed for many years. Unfortunately, property appraisers were rewarded by mortgage brokers for justifying higher appraisals. Mortgage brokers sent appraisers more business and the banks approved more loans. Round and round the carousel goes. Faster and faster the ride until people start flying off. All the while the Fed did nothing. This was only part of the problem.

The Invasion of Iraq

For most people, the invasion of Iraq seemed logical. We were afraid of the terrorists striking us again. We should attack! The only problem was that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The Bush administration saw to it that he scared up support for the invasion from the people and bluntly told the UN that we’re going to invade Iraq even if the UN didn’t agree. Dare I say that I am the great prognosticator, but I didn’t buy it from the start. I actually believe that diplomacy does work. I watched Gen. Colin Powell addresses the UN on WMDs and I didn’t see all of this so called evidence. He was a pawn. You see, prior to Bush winning the presidential election in 2000, there was talk that Gen. Colin Powell could be the first black president, as a Republican! The idea was that he would get the black vote which Republicans knew would guarantee a win. He was respected by Republicans and many people for planning Operation Desert Storm. But several years after his UN Security Council address, Powell does almost an about face and tells Tim Russert (R.I.P.) on Meet the press that he was misled and we should not have invaded Iraq. 5 years later we are effectively in a recession. George Bush calls it a “slow down,” whatever that means. This is our president, a beacon of intellectual discourse and a stalwart of morals. I still don’t think he won in 2000. The people were lied to. Check out the HBO movie Recount.

Big Oil, Big Profits, Little Social Responsibility

Back in the early 1900s, the idea of an all electric automobile was in the works. There was even an electric car called the Baker Electric (you can also google Owen Magnetic) back in 1909. Jay Leno has one (1909 Baker electric) in his garage that still works today! (google Jay Leno’s Garage) Oil companies right now have the resources to produce this technology, but they don’t want to. Some argue that the oil companies are sitting on patents right now. Instead they have decided to take in record profits while the economy comes to a “slow down.” One hundred years has gone by and still no advancement with the electric car on a large scale. We’ve had such technologically advanced aircraft such as the Stealth bomber, and SR-71 Blackbird, and yet we couldn’t create an electric car. Give me a break!

Thankfully there are private companies that are working on alternatives to the gas-driven internal combustion engine, but even fewer are working on totally electric vehicles (Google Tesla Motors). There’s even an air car! You can find it on youtube. Clearly we can do better. I think it’s not helpful to wait for a crisis before we move into action. We should always be on the look-out for a better, more efficient way of doing things. We should no longer endorse the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. We would be better served if we adopted a “we can always make it better” mindset. This is fundamentally a policy issue, which means politics.

So I close with this. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have done the things that people need the most: better education. I only list education because everything else flows from education. If people were more educated about money, the average citizen would be more fiscally responsible. Education isn’t just going to the school house and taking tests. Education is teaching students the significance and relationship of all things. A more educated populace would not tolerate the political games we are enthralled with today. A more educated populace would have a lot less crime, if any, than we do today. A more educated populace would have kept the focus on the evolution of humankind. We would be better off if we were better educated, but politicians of the ruling parties have done little to make things better for the American people.

REPUBLICANS 0.5, DEMOCRATS 0.6 Note: Good ideas have come to fruition because of both of these parties, but I think they feed the people scraps and sell them as hearty meals. Dem’s only get 0.6 because they claim to be for we the people. Republicans get 0.5 because they claim to be for freedom of the individual (i.e. less government, lower taxes). Neither get a full point because they’ve both deceived the public. Nobody wins.

Thank you for reading this article. It is my sincere hope that these words will bring you a new, honest, and fresh perspective of this thing we call life. I also wish that you will be fearless in your pursuit of truth.

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Online stock trading, like any other business, requires a sizeable investment to become a viable source of income, more so, if you want to make it a full time source of your livelihood.

Like every other business, stock trading has its own pitfalls which may land unwary investors into trouble. Ignorance cannot be made an excuse for losses and failures.

An informed and careful planning can minimize the losses and maximize the gains. Some of the salient points that you must understand before opening an account with any brokerage firm are:

1. There are hordes of online brokerage firms that offer attractive terms to lure the customers. Some brokerage firms offer lowest trade commissions, but over- charge you on other counts such as inactive account maintenance fees. Still others may insist upon very high minimum deposits.

If a brokerage firm offers lower charges on almost every account activity, try to search out the reasons for this type of all round munificence. Either there may be some trap, or, the offer may have really genuine reason.

Some brokerage firms have lower overhead charges which they distribute to their customers. For example, most brokerage firms receive their market data on rent from the data vendors like Reuters or Bloomberg. They, naturally, transfer the costs to their clients in form of higher commission charges and so on.

There may be other brokerage firms which have some agreement with the market data vendors and save by not having to pay rent for market data. This leads to huge savings to them and they transfer these savings to their customers by charging less fees and commissions.

These inside secrets cannot be found out by cursory search. You have to devote some time and energy to thoroughly search the website of each brokerage firm before opening your account and parting with your vital financial data.

2. You may have to abide by the terms and conditions laid down by your broker as well as NYSE and AMEX market data display services. For this you are required to check the appropriate boxes at the end of each agreement. You must read these terms and conditions carefully before checking the boxes. They are not mere formalities. Ignoring to understand them may lead you into problem at a later stage.

3. If you find it difficult to do the entire search by yourself, you can hire some investment advisor. You can save a lot of expenditure over the long time by making one time payment to your investment advisor.

4. ISP services that run the online trade sometimes break down. These technological glitches cause lots of trouble at crucial moments, more especially, when you are trying to place an order. The delay in execution may cause you losses in form of increase in the price of the stock if you have placed a buy order, or, in form of decrease in price if you have placed a sell order. You suffer both ways due to delay in execution of your order. You must talk to your brokerage firm to make sure that they accept the telephone instructions to buy and sell the stock in the event of any collapse occurring in the functioning of the ISP services.

5. If you want to trade on multiple stock exchanges, says, like NYSE and NASDAQ, you must ensure that your online broker has the technical capabilities to meet your needs.

6. Trading in online stocks is always fraught with risks. Be prudent in your investments. Do a thorough research and invest in the stocks of the well-managed companies. Unless you are a day trader, hold the shares for some time and do not sell them in panic if, sometimes, the price of your stock falls suddenly. Price fluctuation is a normal feature of stock trading. In all probability the price of your stock will rise over the time.

7. Develop the habit of investing regularly irrespective of the occasional slumps in the stock market. The other alternative is to reinvest your dividends in reinvestment plans.

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I had a long time with a forex demo account for several months, I did not dare to enter into a real live forex trading, because my capital was very limited, and there were no free online forex courses which I can get to help me in my trading. But one day I landed on a website which sell a forex training course package, this website claimed that the its strategy results in a profit rate around 80% in all cases, I read more on this course enough to to be motivated to buy it, especially its price was very suitable to me ($99 total for the 5 ebooks). Once I got the ebooks, I began reading every single word in them with voracity, and – for honesty – it was the first time for me to read in details about forex money management and risk management and their vital rule in forex trading, but this was all I had gotten from this course, nothing otherwise.

I tried to contact the author of the forex course to query him about several points regarding his training program, and guess what? I did not get any response from him, I contacted him up to 10 times, however I did not hear one word.

This was the lesson #1 I learned: It is not about the training program, it’s about the AUTHOR of this program, is he alive man? is he a real forex trader OR: he’s just a teacher of theoretical lectures in forex trading!

The lesson #2 I learnt was: What is degree of the technical support provided after purchasing his forex training program? shall I find him when I need him?

After a whole year, I would have left almost forex trading and preoccupied by other businesses, but one day while surfing on the internet, I found by accident the Forex Mentor website, and once landed on the main page, at the first sight I cynically laughed and said to myself: “Another Scam!!”

However, I started reading all the information on his training program and the main idea behind it: Pivot Points. I began once again thinking seriously to return to forex trading, and decided to purchase this program of Peter Bain, but for the first glance, I was disappointed for its high price ($495 for a hard copy on CDs, or $349 of the digital copy). After a short time of deep thinking and trying to decide whether I’ll buy or not, I said to myself, I lost in the forex trading in the past several thousand of dollars, let them be several thousand PLUS $495!!

I read every word on the Forex Mentor Website, I collected every information available about the Author (Peter Bain) and his history in the forex and stocks market, I read many indpendent reviews about this course. Despite of that, The most important factores encouraged me to buy forex mentor course were as the follows:

The Concept of Forex Mentor Trading System

1- The Program Author: Peter Bain, I read a lot more about him on the internet and on his long experience in the area of trading in stocks, currencies, and the large number of successful traders who trained by him who achieved good trading results with the favor of his forex trading advises.

Peater Bain has developed a very successful trading strategy based on Pivot Points, which depends primarily on the concept of support and resistance: When you see price violate a pivot point convincingly, there are automated trading systems out there that automatically kick in and buy or sell, depending upon where price is going. So, in essence, these two factors alone account for why other indicators are left breathing dust. Bar patterns, MACD divergence, different time frame readings, and trendlines are definite precursors to price changing direction but, in the final analysis, where price is in relation to its nearest pivot point, is the big clue. Tie all these indications together, and you are sure to out-fox price’s next move.

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One day, traders focusing solely on the dynamics and trends. They are more patient and wait for a ride on the strong who can move that day. They are far fewer trades that these traders.
Many day traders sell their positions before the market closes for the trading day to avoid the risk of price differentials (the difference between the day and close to the open overnight price), to open it. One day, traders say it is a golden rule to be respected at all times. Other traders think they should let the profits run, it is acceptable to stay with a position after the market closes.

Day traders often borrow money to trade. Since margins are typically charged interest on balances overnight, the additional costs also discourage them from holding positions overnight.
Risks and benefits

Because of the nature of leverage and speed of returns are possible, day trading can be extremely profitable or highly profitable, and high-risk profile traders can generate huge percentage is huge percentage returns or losses. One day, the operators are able to earn millions each year, only by day trading.

Because of the high profits (or losses), which enables the trading day, these traders are sometimes described as “bandits” or “players” with other investors. Some people, however, make a consistent living day trading.

But day trading can be very risky, especially if it was bad discipline, risk or managing money. The common use of purchases on margin (with borrowed funds) magnifies gains and losses, such as losses or gains may occur in a very short time. In addition, brokers will usually from the higher margins for day traders. When the night margins required to hold a stock position are normally 50% of the value of the stock, many brokers allow pattern day trader accounts to use levels as low as 25% for purchases intraday. That means one day negotiating with the legal minimum $ 25000 in his account can buy a $ 100000 stock during the day, as long as half of those positions were released before the market close. Due to the high risk margin of the use and the other day business practices, a day trader will often leave for a losing position very quickly, in order to avoid a greater, unacceptable loss, or even a catastrophic loss, much larger than its initial investment, even larger than its total assets.

Even when one has made a profit, the trader has to compensate for transaction costs and interest on the margin. It is commonly said that 80-90% of day traders lose money. An analysis of the Taiwanese stock market suggests that “less than 20% of day traders profit net of transaction costs.”

History

Originally, the largest American stocks were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. An operator will contact a stockbroker, which would be about relay to a specialist on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. These specialists to visit each market in only a handful of stocks. The specialist could correspond to the buyer with another broker seller; write tickets natural that, once treated, would have the effect of transferring the stock and relay the information to both brokers. The brokerage commissions were set at 1% of the transaction amount, ie for the purchase of a value of $ 10000 inventory costs to the buyer $ 100 in commissions.

One of the first steps to make day trading shares potentially profitable was the regime change of the commission. In 1975, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. (SEC) has set the commission rate illegal, giving rise to a lot of brokers offering commission rate reduced.
Financial Regulations

Financial institutions to be used much longer periods: Before the early 1990′s in the London Exchange, for example, the stock could be paid for a maximum of 10 working days after it was bought, which allows traders to buy (or sell) shares at the beginning of a settlement period only to sell (or buy) by the end of the period of hope for a higher (or lower) prices. This activity is identical to the negotiation of modern times, but for the longest period of settlement. But today, in order to reduce market risk, the settlement period is generally three days. Reducing the settlement period of default reduces the likelihood, but it was not possible before the advent of the electronic transfer of ownership.

The next important step in the facilitation of the day was the founder in 1971 of the NASDAQ – a virtual exchange on which the orders were transmitted electronically. Switching from paper and wrote share certificates to the registers dematerialized shares, negotiation and computerized registration not only requires amendments to the legislation, but also the development of technology necessary: online, real-time systems, rather than in batches; electronic communications rather than the postal service, telex or physical shipment of computer tapes, and the development of secure cryptographic algorithms.

This marked the advent of “market makers”: the Nasdaq NYSE equivalent of a specialist. A market maker is an inventory of stocks to buy and sell, and at the same time offers to buy and sell the same title. Obviously, it will offer to sell shares at a higher price than the price at which it offers to buy. This difference is known as the “spread”. It is of no importance for the market-maker if the price of a stock goes up or down, because it has sufficient capital stock and always buy cheaper than it sells. Today, there are nearly 500 companies participating as market makers on the RET, each one giving a market generally four to forty different stocks. Without any legal obligation, the market makers are free to offer small deviations ECN’s than on the NASDAQ. A small investor might have to pay $ 0.25 spread (for example, it might have to pay $ 10.50 to buy a share of stock, but could not get $ 10.25 for sale), while the institution would only pay a spread 0.05 $ (10.40 $ buying and selling at $ 10.35).

Day trading is undoubtedly very lucrative for traders willing to put the time and effort to learning how it really works. It is not passive income. This is a career. But a very lucrative if done correctly.

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What is day trading? Basically it is daily, online stock trading with very short investment. The individuals who do this day in and day out are called traders, not investors in the traditional sense. A day trader is someone who will buy a stock that has high volume and liquidity and will sell that same stock within a few minutes up to a few hours.

Day trading happens only during the day. Those who do day trading usually stay glued in front of the computer and monitoring which stocks have a fast turnover. During the day trading, they quickly buy a large number of stocks at a time and sell it once they see the stock gain within the day. Day traders will make a purchase of a stock, hold it for only minutes watching constantly for the stock to go up or down, selling if it goes down only two or three cents and holding if it goes up to about five or six cents and selling. The stock is almost never held over night as there are many other opportunities and a stock that takes hours to move is not worth holding.

Day trading can be a very high paced and stressful lifestyle. There are millions of day traders across North America but it can be a very fast way to lose everything. Some people are making over $5000.00 a day but it takes months and sometimes years to learn and master day trading.

The broader meaning of the term day trading includes those who trade daily from their homes or offices, through Internet brokerages. These day traders might buy and sell stocks in minutes, but might also hold some overnight or longer. The latest buzzword for this is “swing trader,” those who keep a stock within in a few days before finally selling them. To some, particularly the so-called bandits, day trading is just a numbers game. They do little research and just watch for moving stocks with good spreads. Others are more scientific about it, relying on news and technical analysis to catch everyday price fluctuations.

Day trading requires a certain amount of capital. Generally, day trading should have enough trading capital to buy at least 1000 shares of any given stock on any particular day. There are very few stocks priced under $20 that have the degree of liquidity necessary to make them suitable for day trading. This means that a novice day trader should normally have day trading capital of at least $20,000 to start. In addition, the new day trader should treat this as 100% risk capital and should not have to unduly worry that the whole amount of this capital may be lost very quickly.

You must also be aware that not all stocks are suitable for day trading. Day trading should never trade unlisted or thinly traded (low volume) stocks. These stocks have poor liquidity and hence a higher price volatility. This may make it hard for you to exit your day trading position quickly at a fair price. Trade only high volume, well-known stocks.

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Characteristics

Day Trading is considered to be an art and not a science. The major characteristic of this form of trading is rapid buying and selling.

Secondly since the market behavior is extremely unpredictable, day trading is very risky. In fact, some consider it as the riskiest form of trading.

Thirdly, it should also be remembered that small cap stocks are most volatile. The stocks of strong and well established companies are more stable and predictable.

Principles

Disciplined Trading Plan

This should be the foremost trading strategy. Unless one has a trading plan which establish entry points, exit policy, the size of trades, involvement of funds etc,, one should be careful. With a trading plan, there will be no interplay of emotions. Emotions like hope, greed and fear have to remain out of this game.

Trading Times

Many people are under the impression that day trading needs a lot of time. Though intense, that may not be true. Most important is that one should trade when there is too much of activity. Generally trading is very heavy during morning hours, at the end and at the time of any sudden news. One has to be watchful about these. These are the best times to trade and one may not be needed to remain glued to the computer whole day long.

Need larger Amounts of Money

Generally day trading needs a large amount of money in order to sustain in the market. One may not use all of this money, but it is needed in order to carry on in the face of heavy losses.

Number of Shares

While trading, one should keep the number of shares or currency under focus and not the value of securities or currencies.

Be Knowledgeable

A day trader should be prepared and informed. He should have as much information about the market and the stocks as possible. This is necessary to take advantage of wide swings in the market which is news driven. Invest time in education.

No Overnight Position

As for as possible, one should never carry any overnight position.

Others Considerations

One should be humble during both victory and defeat. Day Trading demands taking of personal responsibility. Decisions should be made with complete information and confidence

Conclusion

Day trading is subject to huge losses and gains. This should be recognized. So research and research and identify stocks and currencies which can be predicted more clearly.

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So the time has come for you to diversify your investments? Perhaps you have been thinking this for while, or perhaps you are completely new at this, either way you need to sit down and figure out what you want to have and what you want to do to get what you want. There are plenty of options to get you started. You can of course stick to online trading. Online stock trading is just like any other trading expect it is done online. When trading online you will generally have a broker. But instead of meeting your broker in their office, you will meet them online. You still need to research your broker and find out about their credentials and references, but it generally easier to do so online.

Before you get involved in online trading you should probably conduct an online stock comparison. Which basically means that you compare things you are interested in. So you can compare the online brokers. You can compare online stocks that you are interested in and you can compare different markets you are interested in.

Another way to start is to start trading in futures. Basically the word futures means trading in commodities or currency at a particular date in the future. You need to be fairly confident of the direction your chosen stock or forex will move. More specifically it means trading these commodities at a time in the future that you have already determined. So it is unlike committing to a commodity for a long time, rather you know how long you will have it and why you have it. Some popular versions of this are the Dow Jones.

You can also start out by working your way up through trading on the forex. Forex trading simply means trading in money or currency. So for instance you might buy some American dollars when America is doing badly and sell them to buy some Yen when Asia is doing well. Forex trading is generally a good place to start because it is easy to budget and organize when you know what you are working with and most people already have some idea about world currency.

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The following are the types of day trading which are qualified by the time frame in which the traders prefer to keep their stocks.

Basic day trading. This refers to the day that the trader opts to collect the stocks and then keep them floating for quite sometime in the effort of selling them all at once at the end of the day. The trader is both the seller and purchaser. One of its primary benefits is that he saves his stocks from being affected due to the unstable prices on the market.

Swing day trading. Bigger profits drive the trader to maintain the stocks under his custody for a longer period of time. Its downside is for the stocks to be gravely affected by the changing prices in the marketplace.

Position trading. With this, the trader buys the stocks and organizes them to last for a couple of weeks and sometimes even months. The trader is usually a good player because he waits for the best time to sell the goods.

Online trading. This type may cover any of the abovementioned day trading types except that the selling and purchasing of the stocks are done through the World Wide Web.

Day trading is a task that requires one’s full attention specifically because the stock market constantly fluctuates. If you are serious about this kind of business, you’d better be active and aware of what goes on around you. The stock market is one of the most uncertain places on earth.

You can’t define the outcome of your endeavor unless you try it yourself. Nevertheless, exercise full caution when dealing with stocks.

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