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3000 Hits Club FDC, Signed/Auto, 11 HOF'ers & Rose, withClemente Stamp, with LOP
3000 Hits Club FDC, Signed/Auto, 11 HOF'ers & Rose, w/Clemente Stamp, with LOP. The players are: Pete Rose, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Al Kaline, Lou Brock, Carl Yastrzemski, George Brett, Rod Carew, Robin Yount, Eddie Murray and Dave Winfield. The Teams represented by these players. Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins. San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and St.
The Event: Baseball in America, 3000 Hits Club Baseball Card Show. Postmark: December 8, 1995 in Atlantic City, NJ. Stamps: 13¢ Indian Head Penny and 20¢ Black Heritage - Jackie Robinson. First Day Cover size: 9 1/2" x 4 1/4".
The item you will be getting is in the scanned images. (born April 14, 1941), also known by his nickname "Charlie Hustle", is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Rose played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1986, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds team known as The Big Red Machine for their dominance of the National League in the 1970s. He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Montreal Expos.
During and after his playing career, he served as the manager of the Reds from 1984 to 1989. Rose was a switch hitter and is the all-time MLB leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053), singles (3,215), and outs (10,328). He won three World Series, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, and the Rookie of the Year Award.
Rose made 17 All-Star appearances at an unequaled five positions (second baseman, left fielder, right fielder, third baseman, and first baseman). Rose won both of his Gold Gloves when he was an outfielder, in 1969 and 1970.
(ref Wikipedia) Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 - January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. Widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in history, he spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL). His 755 career home runs broke the long-standing MLB record set by Babe Ruth and stood as the most for 33 years; Aaron still holds many other MLB batting records. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973 and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least fifteen times. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on its list of the "100 Greatest Baseball Players". In 1982, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
(ref Wikipedia) Stanley Frank Musial November 21, 1920 - January 19, 2013, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American baseball outfielder and first baseman. He spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963.
Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. 331 over the course of his career and set National League (NL) records for career hits (3,630), runs batted in (1,951), games played (3,026), at bats (10,972), runs scored (1,949) and doubles (725). His 475 career home runs then ranked second in NL history behind Mel Ott's total of 511.
A seven-time batting champion, he was named the National League's (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and was a member of three World Series championship teams. He also shares the major league record for the most All-Star Games played (24) with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. (ref Wikipedia) Willie Howard Mays Jr.
(born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid" and "Buck", is an American former professional baseball center fielder. Regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. Mays joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948, playing with them until the Giants signed him once he graduated from high school in 1950.
He won the Rookie of the Year Award in his MLB debut year of 1951, spent two years in the United States Army during the Korean War, and won the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1954 after leading the league in batting with a. His over-the-shoulder catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series is one of the most famous baseball plays of all time.
The Giants swept the Cleveland Indians, the lone World Series triumph of Mays's career. (ref Wikipedia) Albert William Kaline (December 19, 1934 - April 6, 2020), nicknamed Mr. Tiger, was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers.
For most of his career, Kaline played in the outfield, mainly as a right fielder where he won ten Gold Glove Awards and was known for his strong throwing arm. He was selected to 18 All-Star Games, including selections each year between 1955 and 1967. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980, his first time on the ballot. Near the end of his career, Kaline also played as first baseman and, in his last season, was the Tigers' designated hitter. He retired soon after reaching the 3,000 hit milestone.
Immediately after retiring from playing, he became the Tigers' TV color commentator, a position he held until 2002. Kaline worked for the Tigers as a front office assistant from 2003 until his death in 2020.
(ref Wikipedia) Louis Clark Brock (June 18, 1939 - September 6, 2020) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the 1961 Chicago Cubs but spent the majority of his big league career as a left fielder for the St. Brock was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985 and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014. He was a special instructor coach for the St. Brock was best known for his base stealing, and he once held the major league career and single-season records for stolen bases. Brock was an All-Star for six seasons and a National League (NL) stolen base leader for eight seasons. He led the NL in doubles and triples in 1968. He also led the NL in singles in 1972, and was the runner-up for the NL Most Valuable Player Award in 1974. (ref Wikipedia) Carl Michael Yastrzemski (nicknamed "Yaz" ; born August 22, 1939) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. He was primarily a left fielder, but also played 33 games as a third baseman and mostly was a first baseman and designated hitter later in his career. Yastrzemski is an 18-time All-Star, the possessor of seven Gold Gloves, a member of the 3,000 hit club, and the first American League player in that club to also accumulate over 400 home runs. He is second on the all-time list for games played, and third for total at-bats.
He is the Red Sox' all-time leader in career RBIs, runs, hits, singles, doubles, total bases, and games played, and is third on the team's list for home runs, behind Ted Williams and David Ortiz. In 1967 Yastrzemski achieved a peak in his career, leading the Red Sox to the American League pennant for the first time in over two decades and being voted the 1967 American League MVP. Yastrzemski also won the Triple Crown that year, something not accomplished again in the Major Leagues until Miguel Cabrera did so in 2012.
(ref Wikipedia) George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953) is an American former professional baseball player who played 21 seasons, primarily as a third baseman, in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals. Brett's 3,154 career hits are second most by any third baseman in major league history (after Adrian Beltre's 3,166) and rank 18th all-time. He is one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career. 300 batting average (the others being Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 on the first ballot and is the only player in MLB history to win a batting title in three different decades.
He was also a member of the Royals' 1985 World Series victory over the St. (ref Wikipedia) Rodney Cline Carew (born October 1, 1945) is a Panamanian former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, second baseman and coach who played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels. The greatest contact hitter in Twins history, he won the 1977 AL Most Valuable Player Award, setting a Twins record with a. Carew appeared in 18 straight All-Star Games and led the AL in hits three times, with his 239 hits in 1977 being twelfth most at the time.
He won seven AL batting titles, the second most AL batting titles in history behind Ty Cobb, and on July 12, 2016 the AL batting title was renamed to the Rod Carew American League batting title. On August 4, 1985, Carew became the 16th member of the 3,000 hit club with a single to left field off Frank Viola. His 3,053 hits are 27th all time, and his career batting average of. 328 is 34th all time.
He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991 in his first year of eligibility; he appeared on upwards of 90 percent of the ballots. He was also elected to the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame, Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame, and Angels Hall of Fame. After retiring as a player, Carew served as a coach for the Angels and the Milwaukee Brewers. Yount (nicknamed, "The Kid", and "Rockin' Robin", born September 16, 1955) is an American former professional baseball player.
He spent his entire 20-year career in Major League Baseball as a shortstop and center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers (1974-93). On September 9, 1992, Yount collected his 3,000th career hit, becoming the 17th player (and the third-youngest) to reach the mark.
Yount was drafted in 1973 and advanced to the major leagues one year later at the age of 18. He won two American League Most Valuable Player awards.
In 1982, he led the Brewers to a World Series appearance. Yount was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 in his first year of eligibility. Since his retirement as a player, he has held several roles as a baseball coach. (ref Wikipedia) Edward Clarence Murray (born February 24, 1956), nicknamed "Steady Eddie", is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman and designated hitter. Spending most of his MLB career with the Baltimore Orioles, he ranks fourth in team history in both games played and hits.
Though Murray never won a Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award, he finished in the top ten in MVP voting several times. He recorded more runs batted in (996) in the 1980s than any other player. After his playing career, Murray coached for the Orioles, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003. [1] In the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001), Murray is described as the fifth-best first baseman in major league history. He was 77th on the list of the Baseball's 100 Greatest Players by The Sporting News (1998). (ref Wikipedia) David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He is the special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves. Winfield is a 12-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner.
The Padres retired Winfield's No. 31 while playing for the Yankees and Indians and wore No. 32 with the Angels, Blue Jays and Twins. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and College Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Couple horrified to find live frog in bag of salad bought from Bristol Aldi
The frog managed to survive in the pair's fridge for two days
A couple were "horrified" after finding a live frog at the bottom of a bag of Aldi salad.
Joe Archer Joy, 30, and his wife Sarah Walker, 33, bought the salad from the Bedminster Aldi store on Tuesday (Sept 18), and began eating their way through the leafy greens.
But it was only after they had eaten about two-thirds of the salad - and kept it stored in their fridge for two days - that they found the amphibian at the bottom of the bag.
Amazingly, it is not the first time a shopper has found a live frog in a bag of salad from Aldi's 'Nature's Pick' range.
The bag of salad bought by Joe Archer Joy and his wife Sarah Walker which they claimed contained a live frog (Image: Joe Archer Joy / SWNS.com)
In July Shevaughan Tolputt, 37, of Camborne, Cornwall, filmed a small amphibian in her 39p British Round Lettuce.
Dad-of-three Joe, a sales assistant, said: "My wife was absolutely horrified. It was quite a big frog - and she was the only one who had been eating the rocket.
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"We weren't sure at first if the frog was alive or dead, because it was pretty still in the bag.
"But then I picked up the bag and it moved a bit. It was just living in our fridge for two days."
He continued: "My wife doesn't seem to have got ill from it, but it's certainly put her off eating salad. I don't think she's going to be having rocket again any time soon."
The bag of rocket cost the couple about 40p from the North Street branch of Aldi in Bedminster.
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Joe said Aldi has apologised and offered £40 compensation - which he does not believe is sufficient.
"Aldi are a massive international company that make a lot of food and make so much money," he said. "I think it's pretty basic that they shouldn't be selling food with frogs in.
As for the chilly amphibian - Joe said he "released it into the wild".
"I let it out in our garden, and it just hopped off. It didn't seem too fussed," he said.
A spokesperson for Aldi said: "We have apologised to Mr Archer Joy and offered him a full refund.
"This type of incident, while incredibly rare, can naturally occur with fresh produce."

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March 20, 2017 - For insurers that are considering a digital transformation of their business, technology is at the heart of the endeavor. How companies transform their IT can be as important as where they end up.
Most insurers have been slower than other types of financial services companies, such as banks, to rethink their business from the customer's point of view—and to invest in end-to-end transformation of legacy technology systems that makes shaping customer journeys possible. It's a long, complex, and expensive undertaking, to be sure, but as digital technologies upend all aspects of the business, from consumer engagement to policy administration to claims, delay becomes a less and less viable option. Comparisons with industry peers no longer define customer expectations. Instead, digital leaders, such as Netflix, Apple, and Google, or new players, such as Oscar, Lemonade, and Wealthfront that aim to disrupt the industry, serve as reference points. The pace of change is fast and the future unpredictable; companies need technology platforms that provide maximum flexibility.
Full-scale transformations may take years, and most require massive investment. They can also be highly disruptive to the organization. Insurers still have businesses to run, customers to serve, and investors to reward. How do insurers balance the need to trans- form their technology with the equally critical need to manage their business during the transformation? How do they transform IT and avoid a costly multiyear program that generates value only at the very end?
Drawing on our transformation experience, we have developed a flexible, staged solution that produces value fast and resolves the digital versus legacy system question for both the near term and the long term.
The front end, or customer engagement layer, provides device, location, and context-aware customer interfaces and enables digital companies to deliver tailored advice and recommendations, as well as a rich, multichannel, multi-device digital customer experience.
The smart-process and decision management layer uses automated decision engines and artificial intelligence to offer customer-centric tailored services based on microsegments and personalized risk profiles.
The back end, or core insurance systems layer, contains all systems of record for the core insurance business (the policy administration, claims, and billing functions) and its support (risk management and finance, for example).
The central data layer captures all data (both structured and unstructured) for real-time processing and analytics. This layer provides access to key data, including a "single source of truth" that gives insurers a 360-degree view of customers, reduces customer churn, detects fraudulent claims, and features product masters and product rules—capabilities that can speed claim processing.
The cloud-based digital infrastructure layer permits scalable high-performance digital services and rapid time to market for new digital solutions.
The integration and security layer manages these two functions by decoupling front-end from back-end platforms, integrating applications with external parties on the basis of open application programming interfaces, and managing security and privacy across the IT landscape.
Even though the destination is clear, the journey for most insurers is typically longer, costlier, and more difficult than they expect. In our experience, many technology transformations fail because they do not produce results that the rest of the organization can see until the end of the trip. Too many IT transformations focus on the technology to the exclusion of the customer experience.
Insurers should think of transformations as occurring in three stages. (See Exhibit 2). The key, we have seen, is to focus first on digitizing the central data layer of the end- state platform rather than on dealing with the process layers (such as the front- and back-end layers). This approach allows much earlier value realization than traditional approaches do: from the initial stage of the transformation onward, users can take advantage of the new platform's digital capabilities. Moreover, it facilitates the full integration of legacy systems with significantly less effort and with a greater chance of success.
The duration of the transformation journey overall and of each stage will depend on each company's unique situation—in particular, on how its data is currently structured and how scattered its legacy landscape is. We typically see a full journey time of 24 to 36 months, but real immediate value creation can start in the first few months and continue throughout.
The goal at Stage 1 is to create the foundation of the target architecture while having an early positive impact on the customer experience. By the end of this stage, companies should have built new data, integration, and customer engagement layers while running their legacy platforms in parallel. The new data layer can draw data from legacy systems for use in big data applications while the legacy systems continue to serve as the master for all systems of record.
As they build the new technology, companies can begin to enhance the customer experience by establishing modern user interfaces for digital channels (following standards set by high-tech beacons such as Google and Netflix). The new data layer allows integration of data from diverse sources, both internal and external (web traffic, social media, and offline channels, for example). Analytics capabilities support new digital services such as peer comparison in auto insurance, location-based services in health insurance, and life insurance and retirement advice. Early lighthouse projects, typically involving customer self-services, fraud detection, or cross-selling, can demonstrate value within the first few months of their existence, energizing the organization. Customers begin to experience the capabilities of the "new" digital insurer right away.
We also advise companies to use the first stage to prepare for the transformation and to mobilize the organization. A critical aspect of this process is the opportunity it offers to free up funding by identifying quick win efficiencies such as suspending existing projects, improving sourcing and procurement, and reducing general expenses.
Stage 2 creates near-term value by enabling capabilities that automate customer journeys (and back-end processes) through the application of business rules to data extracted to the data layer in Stage 1. This stage typically generates significant value by eliminating expensive manual processes and workarounds. It also boosts top-line growth by improving the customer experience, leading to higher retention and lower attrition rates.
In this stage of the transformation, companies build out the smart-process and decision management layer and extend the customer engagement layer. Because the digital data layer is largely in place, insurers can begin to digitize such processes as claims handling while legacy systems remain untouched and continue to function as the systems of record.
Companies can also start to reimagine products and processes in the context of customer journeys—how life events trigger the need for new or different products and services. By digitizing the interactions with the insurer that these journeys entail and by adding functionality to the smart-process and decision layer, insurers create superior experiences. For example, companies can provide better real-time results (such as processing a claim in a single day, under many circumstances, or enabling a life insurance advisor to provide high-quality advice tailored to a customer's individual needs and circumstances).
Stage 3 creates further value by rolling out core insurance functionality (policy administration systems and underwriting, for example) and bringing the full functionality of the new platform online. Typically, this activity accompanies the rollout of a new product engine capable of generating flexible product offerings that eliminate complexity in IT processes and reporting, and that are readily configurable to meet market demands.
The new platform is often built out on a cloud-based PaaS (at much lower cost than facilities-based legacy systems) and based on an open-architecture concept, which means that the company can modify or replace individual components as needed in the future—also at much lower cost.
The insurer gradually migrates customers to the new stack. It transfers all relevant data to the new platform, which is now the system of record, and uses the new platform to conduct all subsequent business. And finally, it digitizes relevant, high-value customer journeys and decommissions legacy systems.
The new technology environment supports advanced capabilities that require the use of full-target architecture, such as real-time underwriting. The system simplifies the product experience and creates possibilities for new product combinations and offerings for customers. It also permits experimentation with new business models and adjacent businesses.
Building an entirely new technology platform over a two-to-three-year time frame requires a different way of working and new types of talent, both of which depend on leadership.
Operating Model. As they move through the three stages of digital transformation, insurers will need to embrace agile methodologies and approaches, and this can be a transformation in and of itself. We have observed that many companies struggle with the transition to agile. (See "Five Stages to Scaling Up Agile," BCG article, February 2016.) It is not easy to integrate self-directed, cross-functional agile teams into the existing hierarchy of large companies. But making the transition is crucial because a company's ability to create value throughout the transformation process depends on its ability to design and release new technology and customer experience features in periods of weeks or months as opposed to years.
Skills. The digital insurer requires new types of talent as well. Insurers that cannot attract, develop, and retain staff with advanced digital skills risk falling behind: talent in today's increasingly transparent marketplace is quick to recognize companies that do not measure up. The reverse is also true: talent attracts talent. It's important for a company to foster a digital culture that favors experimentation over risk aversion, customer-centric over channel-centric strategies, and collaborative over siloed approaches. Companies that transform their capabilities first will benefit from a head start that others may find difficult to overcome.
They emphasize to the entire organization that transforming legacy IT is more than just another IT project—that it requires multidisciplinary teams comprising business and IT people.
They communicate the critical advantages of a digital customer experience and technology to their staff, providing clear proof of value and evidence of economic viability.
They work with the strategy department to create a robust change management and governance structure.
According to the old saying, getting there is half the fun. Most company leaders might disagree, but they would agree that it's half the challenge, if not more. Insurers that adopt a phased approach to the transformation of their business and technology will find that getting there can be a manageable (and exciting) process—and one that delivers results and value all along the journey.
Je Chookaszian is a partner and managing director in the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group. You may contact him by e-mail at chookaszian.jeff@bcg.com.
Benjamin Rehberg is a partner and managing director in the firm's New York office. You may contact him by e-mail at rehberg.benjamin@bcg.com.
Fabrice Lebegue is managing director of Platinion, a BCG company based in Montreal. You may contact him by e-mail at lebegue.fabrice@bcgplatinion.com.
Michael Schachtner is a principal in BCG's New York office. You may contact him by e-mail at schachtner.michael@bcg.com.
Oliver Kude is a principal in the firm's Stuttgart office. You may contact him by e-mail at kude.oliver@bcg.com.


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As Russia report nears, Donald Trump taunts Robert Mueller
President Trump tweets as he and aides await Russia report by Robert Mueller.
As Russia report nears, Donald Trump taunts Robert Mueller President Trump tweets as he and aides await Russia report by Robert Mueller. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/15/russia-report-nears-donald-trump-taunts-robert-mueller/3172958002/
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 1:16 p.m. ET March 15, 2019 | Updated 8:38 p.m. ET March 21, 2019
WASHINGTON – As the political world braces for news from special counsel Robert Mueller, President Donald Trump all but taunted the prosecutor Friday by saying his investigation is unnecessary.
"This was an illegal & conflicted investigation in search of a crime," Trump claimed in a series of tweets.
Trump charged there should have been no Mueller investigation — and therefore no Mueller report — "if" there was no crime when Mueller was appointed and "if" it was based on information collected by his political enemies. The Justice Department appointed the special counsel in 2017 after investigators developed strong evidence that Russia had sought to help Trump win the presidency obtained an array of clues that people in his campaign could have participated in that effort.
Mueller's team has convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, and other Trump associates on charges ranging from financial fraud to lying to investigators.
So, if there was knowingly & acknowledged to be "zero" crime when the Special Counsel was appointed, and if the appointment was made based on the Fake Dossier (paid for by Crooked Hillary) and now disgraced Andrew McCabe (he & all stated no crime), then the Special Counsel.......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
....should never have been appointed and there should be no Mueller Report. This was an illegal & conflicted investigation in search of a crime. Russian Collusion was nothing more than an excuse by the Democrats for losing an Election that they thought they were going to win.....
.....THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO A PRESIDENT AGAIN!
A federal appeals court in Washington and four district court judges have rejected challenges to Mueller's appointment and his investigation.
Trump's critique of the Mueller inquiry comes as two of the president's former top aides – Flynn and deputy campaign manager Rick Gates – acknowledged in court papers this week that they continue to cooperate with the special counsel's investigation.
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The president, his attorneys, and others expect Mueller to report something soon on his investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election by hacking the emails of Democratic Party officials and pushing fake news about Trump opponent Hillary Clinton.
Prosecutors are also looking into whether Trump sought to obstruct the investigation. Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has testified that Trump implicitly encouraged him to provide false information to congressional investigators.
Trump has denied obstruction or collusion with the Russians, while denouncing the Mueller investigation as a hoax.
In transcripts released this week, two of the FBI officials involved in the early stages of the Russia investigation, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, told lawmakers that they didn't know at the time Mueller was appointed whether the probe would prove collusion.
Strzok and Page, who exchanged anti-Trump text messages in 2016 and engaged in an extramarital affair, both said that's not particularly unusual at that point in an investigation. Asked specifically whether the FBI had any evidence that Trump's associates coordinated with the Russian government, Strzok said the answer was classified and would relate to an ongoing investigation.
"At the early stage of the investigation, there were a variety of things going on, and it was not clear to me what that represented, whether it was the activities of a group of individuals or something larger or more coordinated, or, in fact, nothing at all," Strzok said.
Months earlier, the Justice Department had persuaded a federal surveillance court that it had probable cause to believe "the Russian Government's efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election were being coordinated with [Carter] Page and perhaps other individuals associated with" Trump's campaign.
Page is a former Trump advisor with extensive Russian contacts who came under government surveillance in 2016.
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How Self-publishing Works
by Tom Harris
What Sort of Book?
Roark went through several possible cover treatments on his first book before settling on one that felt right.
Photo courtesy Clearing Skies Press
You certainly don't need to know exactly how many pages your book is going to be before you even get started writing. But if you have a target, and you know what type of book you're creating, you can plan your budget accordingly.
The broad decision first: Do you want a hardback book or a trade paperback book? Hardback books are significantly more expensive to print, and because of the higher cover price, may sell less than a paperback book. But, for some books -- a mammoth textbook, say -- they're really the only way to go.
After you've made this decision, you can decide how many pages you'll want. Think about the scope of what you have to say and look at the page count in books with similar content. But also think about what you want the book to feel like. Simply pick out a book that is about the same size and format of what you have in mind.
When you find a good model to shoot for, count the number of words per page. Multiply that by the number of pages. Then subtract words for any "odd pages" -- the first and last pages of each chapter (these aren't usually filled), any blank numbered pages and any pages at the beginning and end of the book. This will give you a rough word count for the book. If you calculate how many words are on a page in your word processing program (or paper if you use a typewriter or if you write longhand), you can give yourself a target page count.
Why does this matter? For one thing, you need to think about the psychology of a book-buyer. If you're looking to create a gift book paperback, you don't want a massive 500-page volume, because it may feel too much like a reference encyclopedia. Its intended audience has more of a casual interest, so it should have a lighter feel. But if you're putting together a how-to guide, a 100-page book isn't going to seem like a good deal to your potential customer. They'll pick the thicker book on the shelf next to yours, because it seems more substantial.
Price also plays a role here. More pages costs more, and certain multiples of pages are cheaper than others. Printing presses print a set number of pages in one pass -- typically 32 pages, front and back. This means it's substantially cheaper to print a 320 page book than a 321 page book. This isn't something you have to figure out right away, but it should be a factor when you are laying out the finished book.
With the first book, Walter Roark re-evaluated his choice of book size:
I decided that the first book was a little slim ... The first book is 160 pages, which is 5 x 32. And I decided I wanted the second book to be more substantial, because toddlerhood is more complicated than babyhood, and you're dealing with more complicated issues all the way around. I decided to make it 7 x 32 -- 224. I also had the feeling that if it looked more substantial -- a little bit fatter -- the bookstores would be more inclined to take it. Borders declined to take my first book...
One thing I realized is that cover out, [the first books have] good appeal, but when they're spine out, on the bookshelf, you don't even see them -- they get lost. So I thought, I'll make the book a little fatter -- that way it will have a bigger spine, and it won't get as lost. So I did that, and Borders took the second book.
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Watching Our Water Ways Environmental reporter Christopher Dunagan discusses the challenges of protecting Puget Sound and all things water-related.
Northwest stayed warm in May; new graphics show long-term trends
Christopher Dunagan
After warmer-than-average temperatures for much of the past year, May suddenly turned cooler across the nation — except for the Northwest, which remained warmer than normal.
Although it seemed cool recently, at least compared to April, Western Washington had the greatest deviation with temperatures between 3 and 5 degrees higher than the 30-year average. See first map.
It seems ironic to write about cooler temperatures after last month's teaser headline at the top of the Kitsap Sun's front page: "Earth getting HOT, HOT, HOTTER!"
The big story earlier this month was that worldwide temperatures had broken all-time heat records for 12 months in a row, and April's record-high temperature was a full half-degree higher than the previous record.
The average temperature hasn't been below the 20th century average since December 1984, and the last time the Earth broke a monthly cold record was nearly a century ago, in December 1916, according to NOAA records.
"These kinds of records may not be that interesting, but so many in a row that break the previous records by so much indicates that we're entering uncharted climatic territory (for modern human society)," Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler wrote in an email to Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press.
El Niño, which is now fading, was blamed in part for the unprecedented heat worldwide. But climatologists say the onward march of global warming lies in the background. Last year turned out to be the hottest year on record, easily beating 2014, which was also a record year.
The first four months of this year were so much hotter than 2015 that 2016 is still likely to set another record. NOOA's Climate Prediction Center says La Niña conditions are on the way, with a 50 percent chance of La Niña by summer and a 75 percent chance by fall.
Summer temperatures are expected to be above average except in the Central U.S., while both coasts are expected to be the most likely to exceed normal temperatures. Check out the second map on this page.
Speaking of the onward march of climate change, computer graphics developers keep coming up with new ways to show how global temperatures are increasing in concert with rising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Climate Central has combined data sets from NOAA to produce the orange graph,which shows the advance of a trailing 30-year temperature average from 1980 through 2015. To put it simply, we continue to adjust to a new normal.
Others have used animation to depict temperature change. One graphic (below) received a lot of attention this month. Temperature change is represented as the distance from a "zero" circle starting in 1850. Each month, a line moves one-twelfth of the way around the circle, completing 360 degrees each year. The line gets farther and farther from the center and really jumps outward in 2015.
Ed Hawkins, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading near London, created the animation. He credited an associate, Jan Fuglestvedt, with the idea of a spiral.
Jason Samenow, chief meteorologist for the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang, called it "the most compelling global warming visualization ever made." His blog post also includes some other visual depictions of climate change.
Another animated graph, by Tom Randall and Blacki Migliozzi of Bloomberg, show similar data depicted as a moving line graph.
NOAA Visualizations plotted temperature differences at various locations on a world map. Over time, it is easy to see how the Earth has gotten generally warmer, accelerating in recent years.
One of the most intriguing graphics, in my opinion, is one that purports to show the various factors that affect global temperature — from volcanic activity to man-made aerosols to greenhouse gases. The designers, Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi of Bloomberg, ask viewers to judge which factor they believe leads to global warming.
Since this is a blog about water issues, I would probably be remiss if I didn't point out that the consequences of rising greenhouse gases is not just an increase in the Earth's temperature. We can't forget that a major portion of the carbon dioxide is being absorbed into the ocean, causing effects on marine life that are far from fully understood.
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Greg Iverson says:
Thank you for the collection of recent climate change visualizations. As a regular viewer at Climate Central I had seen most of them individually but as a group they make a larger impact. The link to the Bloomberg graphic on natural and man-made causes is also a good summation.
Too bad we don't have a visualization of the GOP's impact on the future's climate. Their obstinate rejection of scientific authority is blocking serious climate mitigation both at home and abroad and could result in a measurable increase in the rate of global deterioration. My guess is their destructive behavior – including their nomination of Donald Trump – gives them a perverse sense of the power which comes from destruction.
The IPCC's Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 does attempt to show the consequences of the "business as usual" increase of global greenhouse gas concentrations for the remainder of this century with a global temperature increase of about 4 degrees Celsius by 2100. How much of that increase will be due to our GOP's obstinacy is not clear to me but I may turn out to be substantial.
Christopher Dunagan says:
Thank you for the comment. People who are serious about learning the ins and outs of climate change can find plenty of resources to further their understanding. Future temperatures in 10, 20 or 50 years remain uncertain, both because of the limitations of climate models and because nobody can predict how much humans will do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But there is almost no uncertainty about the direction that temperatures will go based on the effects of rising greenhouse gases in the absence of countervailing forces.
To understand the reference to Pathway 8.5, I recommend that people take a look at a chapter called "Making Sense of Climate Change Projections" (PDF 2 mb) in a report called "State of Knowledge: Climate Change in Puget Sound."
For folks who would like to dig deeper into the research, I recommend either subscribing to "Science Daly" or visiting the site and searching on terms such as "climate change" or "ocean acidification" or even terms such as "global cooling" or "global warming skeptics." Science Daly reports on all sorts of scientific studies using news releases from hundreds of universities and research organizations. One can track the information back to the original reports to view comments from various points of view.
Dave Dahlke says:
Gotta love the term "hotter". They don't want us to think that it might have been "warmer", but really really toasty.
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Elected Members - Freedom of Speech?
A recent judicial review in the Administrative Court has offered clear guidance on statements made by elected members. The Judicial Review provides direction on whether statements as such are able to be made within freedom of speech, or whether that right is qualified as a consequence of the holder being in a political office and therefore subject to a code of conduct.
The case involved a Councillor in Ealing posting on his blog material relating to the Southall area, and made comments about the largely Indian community therein.
As a consequence of this blog, there was extensive local press coverage and a residents' petition from the community in Southall.
(ii) that the decision was unreasonable and irrational on the grounds that the blog did not justify the finding of a breach of the Code, and that such a finding was an infringement of his right to free speech pursuant to Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention.
The application for judicial review was dismissed and the reasoning behind the Judgment is particularly helpful when considering whether elected members have breached the Code of Conduct and effectively failed to treat others with respect and/or brought the Council or the Office of Councillor into disrepute.
Dealing with the first point - adequate reasons - the report clearly set out the reasoning for the decision the Council reached and contained an analysis of the Councillors rights under Article 10 and was therefore said to be sound.
Of more interest is how the issue of free speech was dealt with, and the implications of Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention and its interaction with the Standard's regime.
The leading authority referred to in the Judgment is Sanders -v- Kingston, where Wilkie J set out the three questions to determine where a member had breached the Code of Conduct and whether any sanction imposed was proportionate in accordance with Article 10 of the Convention on Human Rights.
Was the Standards Committee entitled as a matter of fact to conclude that the Councillor's conduct was in breach of the relevant paragraphs of the code of conduct?
In this instance, by virtue of the blog and its contents, the Council was in fact entitled to conclude as a matter of fact that there were breaches of the Code.
Was the finding and the sanction in itself a prima facie breach of Article 10?
In this particular case the finding could be said to be a fetter to free speech, as could the sanction requesting an apology.
Is the finding and sanction a proportionate interference with Article 10 rights?
The comments advanced by the member in this case were said not to be the expression of a political view, but an unjustified personal and generic attack on a section of the public. The subjects of the speech were not politicians but ordinary members of the public and, as such, the comments did not attract the higher level of protection applicable to political expressions, and the comments would plainly have undermined confidence in local government and potentially brought the Council into disrepute.


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Hey, traders. Welcome to video 15 of the Advanced Forex Strategies course. This is Cory Mitchell. In this video we are looking at the only time you should buy on new highs and new lows.We're going to be using this on a one and five minute chart, brought to you by Investoo.com.
So, trend trading is where the money is. Whether it's short term or long term, we want to be trading in the direction of momentum. We don't generally want to buy as the price makes a new high or sell as the price makes a new low. We've discussed this in prior videos. This gets us in too late into the move. There is one exception though that we're going to cover in this video.
Prior videos we were looking at ways to enter more at the turning point, so this was well before we would have seen a new high or new low, and we'd actually be looking to get out as the price is making a new high or low. So all those things still apply here. This is just another tool you can use in your trading day. This is an active strategy. You must be there to trade. It is not set and forget. Therefore, you're going to need to be sitting in front of your computer watching for this, manually entering and manually exiting.
Typically these moves happen so fast there is no time to set a stop or target. Therefore, only very disciplined traders should utilize this strategy. I can't emphasize this enough. If you have a tendency or a problem with cutting your losses, do not trade this strategy. Only if the price is moving very strongly, that is, each price bar is covering large distances do former highs and lows become potential entry points. When the price is moving very strongly toward a former high, there is enough momentum to keep pushing that price. There is potential for a very quick profit there.
There should be no pause before the breakout. If the price is moving very slowly toward a high or low with lots of choppy bars, little momentum, you want to avoid trading those types of breakouts. We are looking for sharp, clean movement where the price is aggressively moving toward a former high with zero pauses, meaning there is tons of buyers in there and it is likely just going to continue to slingshot above that former high. The former high just gives you an entry point, and you are just looking to ride that momentum. Same with the low. If there's heavy selling heading into a former low, these are subjective in the sense that you can pick any high or low that you want.
We're going to cover a few examples, but it is somewhat subjective. You want heavy selling, so that it's just relentless selling going into that, no real pauses, and the price breaks through that low and it just provides you an entry point. One or five minute charts work best for this strategy. Only take trades while the major markets are open. Otherwise, there's a higher probability that that momentum will fail. So, for example if you're trading the Euro/USD, you would want London or New York to be open. We have no time to enter a stop or target, nor is there a defined one. There is no precise exit or entry. We are adapting to the market in real- time, trading momentum, so we don't know exactly when that momentum is going to end, if it's going to continue.
So as we go through this strategy, I'll show you its very adaptable, very subjective, where we're just trying to capture that momentum and as soon as it dies out, we are out. So there's no defined stop or target on this one. Basically we are expecting momentum to carry us on-side immediately after we enter the trade. If the price drops back below the former high if we're trading momentum to a new high, or rallies back above a former low if we're expecting the price to drop, we give it a couple pips breathing room but that is it. If it fails to go as anticipated, we exit immediately. So we are expecting this thing to like break that high or break that low and just keep running. If it doesn't, get out immediately.
The premise for a trade is no longer there if that momentum dies. So get out immediately, manually exit market order. So we're going to be using two market orders. We're going to be using a market order to get in and a market order to get out.
A lot of traders are afraid of market orders and they think their broker's going to screw them or something. If you think that, you should be trading with a different broker who you don't think that. And two, I use market orders on most of my positions, and even a limit order is a market order in the Forex.
Typically, you can see slippage on that limit order as well, so using a market order is really no different. And if you want to get in, you want to get in. Use a market order. When you want to get out, you have to get out. Use a market order. So here's the basic strategy. When the price moves about half a pip or one pip above a former high, we are going to buy. And if it drops one pip or half a pip below a former low, we're going to sell, only when the price is moving very aggressively as we've covered.
You basically want to get swept up in the momentum of the trade. Your order is just kind of a blip right there on the former high, and you get carried away with the current momentum. If it's questionable whether you think you're going to be on-side right away, skip the trade. Assuming you are on-side, so the price does move in your favor and you're making money on the trade, it shows a profit on your screen, stay in for at least one price bar. So that will be one minute or five minutes depending on the price bar you're looking at. But do not give back profit. The only object is to catch momentum, so as soon as that momentum wanes, get out. So basically you're looking for bars stacked on top of bars with no real pullback whatsoever. As soon as there's a pullback, get out with a market order. There's zero hesitation here. It's in very quickly, out very quickly. These trades are going to last you probably, if you're on a one minute chart they might last you one minute to three minutes. If you're on a five minute chart it might last you five minutes to probably eight minutes, possibly ten minutes. These are going to be rare.
It sounds like, oh that happens all the time. I see that on my chart. As we go through, I'm going to try to explain. As I mentioned, it is a bit subjective so there is a bit of a feel involved here, but I'll try to express that to you. These trades are going to be pretty rare, rarer yet if your spread is beyond one pip. That means you'll need to have a pretty volatile day overall to make this strategy profitable. As we'll look, a lot of times these little pops of momentum will be seven or eight pips for the most part.
The odd time you might get one that is really huge, maybe about 10 minutes after a news release or something you might get one that runs 20 pips or so, but it's pretty rare. Most of these that we're going to see on a normal day are going to be about seven to eight pips. So if you have a bigger spread, two or three pips, that basically eats up your profit, so they're going to be even rarer yet then.
So how rare? Right now, as I'm making this video the Euro/USD is moving about 70 pips per day, even a little bit less. I think it's fluctuated between 60 and 70 pips over the last few weeks, so not a lot of volatility. So we're seeing maybe two of these trades a week. If we move back up to a little bit more of a historical average of 100 pips a day, 90 to 100, you may see a few more of these. So you might be able to get up to about one a day, or at least a few a week.
This strategy is highly subjective, requires quick reflexes, zero hesitation on the entry and exit, and you should practice it extensively in a demo account before using. So this is a day trading strategy. First lets go over you can just go to have like a one-click trading. So this you can just boom, boom, boom, boom. Makes it a little bit quicker. Once you've entered, let's say… so let's look at this one here. As we can see, we're not really making a lot of movement. I should point out… so yellow is the London session.
This kind of beige is the London and New York overlap period. In the Euro-USD we're looking at a one minute chart. So this is just an indicator I've added to help highlight when the sessions are and blue is after London's closed and only New York is open. So that will help you make these trades during the right time. Remember we said you only want to trade these when a major market is open.
So in this case I just pulled up the Euro/USD, and we want to be trading either when London or New York is open. And preferably this is a good time to do it, when they are both open, because typically we're going to see a lot of volatility then and the most volume. So using my little tool here, we can see even if we do make a new high or anything here there is not enough movement. That whole thing was only six pips, so even if we had a big breakout, if this whole thing was only six pips there's just not enough momentum for us to even worry about trading new highs and new lows. Once this starts to begin, we have a new scenario. These types of trending moves we would simply be trying to use our other types of strategies. We have a beautiful move here. We could use a mini-channel breakout or just the trend following strategy. We have a little pause here at the bottom that we could have traded a breakout on. So no, we would not be looking to trade new highs anywhere in this area. We do not have enough momentum. Here we have a move down to a new low, but we have this pause right before it occurs. Even though it does continue to drop, it is not of interest to us. If we wanted to trade that, we would use the other strategies mentioned. We would not just use this new high or new low strategy. So let's look at an example of what this actually would be, and as I said these are pretty rare, so we're only going to see about one, maybe one a day. And in this case, May 30th, this is the one that would've at least triggered my interest for sure, and that is the move to this new high here. So why does this interest me? We can see we've moved down.
The trend, while questionable at this point, once we start to move back up makes us think, all right, we still have overall upward momentum today. We're up on the day, at least through the London/New York session, and we can see it starts to really escalate here. We have these price bars which, and if we're looking at the very right side of the chart, are starting to go I guess what we call parabolic almost, where we're escalating toward that high, and when we get to it we're really moving through it. Is there a slight question? Could it stop here?
There's always that risk, but if you look at these bars we're starting to really see some strong buying coming in, so there's a good chance that as soon as we enter about half a pip or so above this former high, which would have been right about here, we're getting swept up in all that buying which is what we want. So we want to enter, and as soon as that happens we want to be pushed on-side, which we would have been. So we had bought here and we're instantly showing a profit. Now, I said as soon as that momentum starts to give way we get out. So we would have market bought right in here. Ways to get in. We could use a tool like this. You can also download plug-ins, which are like a level two. If you're unfamiliar with a level two, it basically shows you liquidity at each level but it also gives you some functionality for opening positions, closing positions, stuff like that.
So this is the most simple one built into Metatrader. It'll work fine for the most part, but if you are interested in actively day trading you may want to look at upgrading to a plug-in for Metatrader which gives you a bit more functionality. So here you could just hit market buy, right at this point here, as soon as it's about a pip and a half above. You need to be thinking ahead, so as this is rising, your finger's on that trigger. You're also going to have to figure out in real time, basically split seconds how much your position size is going to be. So on this, if I'm expecting to be on-side right away, I probably don't want to give back more than a couple pips. So let's say I decide, all right. If it falls back, it's broken out, if it comes back three pips against me, I am out. So you've got to be able to decide can I take one lot. At one lot, that's ten bucks per pip. So you're looking at about 30 pips of risk for that position. Then think about your account size.
Can you withstand a $30 loss? Is it 1% of your account or less? And then you'll have to do that math. The more you do this it'll become very quick, and since you know your account often you can figure some of these things in advance. So we have a short move, and we basically wait for any sort of pullback. We do not have to wait for bars to complete. We will wait for the first one to compete since we're on-side, and then the next one shoots in our favor. As soon as it starts to pull back, we get out. So basically you can even think of it this way. We're giving it about a three pip stop down here, so giving back three pips profit is the absolute maximum we would be looking for, but I will usually get out as soon as I start to see any sort of movement against the trend.
So that would have been a four pip move against the trend, which was up, so I would have been looking to probably get out between about, once it had pulled back two or three pips, likely more I'd be looking to get out in the two pip area, meaning once it pulled back two pips I'd be looking to get out three pips at the absolute maximum.
So conservatively we'd be getting out about here at 13644.5 or at about 13643.5 is kind of where I'd be looking to pull the trigger on these. Yes, it did go higher. That does matter. All we're doing is trading this momentum. All these other moves, we can trade just using our trend trading methods as usual. This is just something else to add. So don't think of it as a way to, I'm going to clean up with this strategy. We just tack it on. It's a way to add a few extra pips to the bottom line when these opportunities occur, but it's not going to be a staple trading method.
On this pullback we can just trade a normal trend trading type strategy like we've covered in other videos. So the breakout is simply to capture a few pips which in this case would have been about five if we got out around that 144.5 I think we said. So that yeah, you would have got about five pips. So as soon as that started to turn, we'd be out. Let's look at a few other examples which wouldn't have worked out, and we're going to explain why. So here, a little pullback, we have a move to a new high but we can see.
You can see a big difference between these bars here and these bars which are just kind of chopping along. Each bar retraces the former bar, whereas here, these bars do not retrace each other. So that is one of the tell tale signs. Even here we're starting to slow down as London closes. We have a couple nice red bars here. This one retraces the last, so as we get toward this point, just not enough momentum to really concern ourselves with whereas this, quite a bit different. Here we would have just generally used another trend trading strategy.
Here we wouldn't have traded this breakout simply because we had this pause right before the breakout which shows some hesitancy on the part of the buyers. Yes, did this end up going higher, but can we say are we going to get swept up in a buying frenzy here? No, that's questionable because there was a pause there that shows that we're not exactly sure if these buyers are totally committed. Here, they seem a lot more committed. It's all green bars.
As I said, these are going to be pretty rare. I looked through the rest of the week and I didn't really see a whole lot that would've interested me. So this is a somewhat subjective strategy. Go through your charts, see if you can find… let's see if we see one here. Yeah, even all these, not talking about five pip movements here, so just not enough for us to get involved. So go through your charts, see how with your spread, with your broker, using your market orders how this could work for you. It's probably going to take quite a bit of experimenting in your demo account. Don't just jump in and use this with real money. So go in there, practice it, see what sort of moves, what sort of extent the price needs to be moving in order to make this profitable for you with your spread and the pairs you trade, because it can be a very good strategy but it is somewhat subjective and there's not a whole lot of hard and fast rules you can apply to it simply because we're basing it on current movement which will change every single day. So this one only went five pips.
There's no way to say, all right, I want a ten pip target and that's it. It doesn't really work that way for this sort of strategy, so we really need to be able to adapt in real time. I think this will make you better as a trader overall if you can find a way to make this profitable for yourself. So for this one, a little bit more advanced, definitely a totally different take on some of the strategies that we've been using. The other strategies are your staples. This one is just something you can add on top. You must manually enter and exit, whether it's a prof or a loss. This is tough for many traders. You can have zero hesitation, especially if it's a loss. If that thing doesn't go in your favor right away, get out. Risk 1% or less of your account on one pair, that way even a string of losses won't significantly draw down your account. You will need to ballpark your position size based on how much you expect to risk. I typically keep risk to about three pips on these things. If that thing doesn't go right away, I'm out. So three pips, absolute max. That way I can calculate my stop. All right, three pips, I know what that is. What position size can I take based on my account size to keep my risk under 1%? Momentum has to be there. You're expected to get carried on-side immediately after entry. If that is questionable, use a different strategy or wait for a different entry point. Trading loss [inaudible 00:21:56]. Only trade with capital you can afford to use.
And with this strategy especially, since it is subjective you're going to have to come up with a few little guidelines for yourself to really make this your own, plus every trader uses a different broker. You have slightly different spreads, different commissions, that sort of thing. Those types of thing will affect this strategy. So test it out extensively in a demo account until you're profitable with it before using it with real capital. Until next time, have a trade.


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