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:: My Precious!
Technical Analysis, and science for all that, is a matter of observed coincidences, patterns that reappear and have potential for profits. Being human, however, it is all to easy to wed oneself to a pattern or idea. It is no surprise then that one of the first lessons the market teaches is that nothing is ever the same, every day is different. To paraphrase Mark Twain[*], history does not entirely repeat, at best it rhymes.

[*] Could it be that Plutarch, who in Twain's day was no doubt part of the curriculum, was the inspriation? It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. Plutarch, Life of Sertorius(c. 70 AD)

This wonderful little ring may be just the talisman the trading shaman ordered. Inscribed with This too will change, it is "an ever-present reminder of the truth of impermanence." At $24.95, it's an inexpensive way to remind yourself that the market, while always changing, is always "right".