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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 15:46:42 -0500, Cryptoengineer   
    wrote:   
      
      
      
   >A few years ago we had a guy on here who did that. He claimed he was   
   >about to become rich playing the stock market, using technical   
   >analysis to predict short term changes (ie, he was like most "day   
   >traders").   
   >   
   >Every example he used to 'prove' it would work involved cherry picked   
   >examples where the result had already occurred. Challenged to predict   
   >an event that hadn't actually happened yet, he failed miserably.   
      
   This is why most modern "prophets" are very very vague, either about   
   what will happen or when it will happen (or both).   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)