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Which you haven't been doing, because you only just thought it up, because this strategy never would have occurred to you had you not known how the markets had actually behaved over the last five years.  
Which you haven't been doing, because you only just thought it up, because this strategy never would have occurred to you had you not known how the markets had actually behaved over the last five years.  


And how would it perform? Unless ''you'' are a bigger knucklehead than your [[client]], SPECTACULARLY. Whatever the weather. You designed it, with 20:20 hindsight, specifically to look good against this exact data set, remember? However mendacious you might be, the rise is so obvious that no client who entertained it for a moment deserves any sympathy at all. Yet, buy it in their thousands they did.
And how would it perform? Unless ''you'' are a bigger knucklehead than your [[client]], SPECTACULARLY. Whatever the weather. You designed it, with 20:20 hindsight, specifically to look good against this exact data set, remember? However mendacious you might be, the ruse is so obvious that no client who entertained it for a moment deserves any sympathy at all. Yet, buy it in their thousands they did.
 
They worked it out eventually. The hard way.
They worked it out eventually. The hard way.


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