Post #186 by Ben on the Mechanical Investing board

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<Anyone serious about buying and selling the major stock indexes is going to find that taking long positions entails the incursion of at least short-term pain--I suffer enormously when I purchase futures on the big indexes. I felt like an idiot stating a couple of weeks ago that it was time to go long.>

So a couple of weeks ago you were thinking of selling these signals that you have such little confidence in?

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