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Stocks are trading slightly positive today, and we are sitting pretty with most of our positions in ACS and BAN now closed and or deep in profits. We just sit back, let the market shake things up and reset over the next couple of weeks, and give us a new trade.
I do touch on a possible gold trade we could do as a side/bonus discretionary play.

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How Smart Investors Use Options for Income, Protection, and Peace of Mind

When you hear the word “options,” your first thought might be “high risk” or “too complex.” And for many years, that’s how it was portrayed—especially to long-term investors who were taught to just “buy and hold” and wait.

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Building algorithmic trading systems in the MQL5 programming language has been made easier with Standard Libraries that come preloaded in MetaEditor. These modules (libraries) come with functions and variables that simplify the process of opening, validating, closing the trades, etc.

Without these dependencies, it becomes harder to write even a simple program, such as making a simple script for opening a buy position (trade).

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From the panic selling last week, the markets went through a washout low (as expected) and are now climbing higher.

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In our related series of articles, like Self-Optimizing Expert Advisors, we discussed an unsettling truth: even when you follow all the “best practices” in algorithmic trading development, things can still go horribly wrong. Briefly, we observed that practitioners using the RSI according to its standardized rules, may wait several months without the indicator generating any of the expected results. Resulting in trading accounts that are exposed to more market risk than what was intended.

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