⏱ 15 minute read · long-form 📅 Published: June 18, 2026 Last reviewed: June 18, 2026 Educational analysis only. This article is not personalized financial advice, and any figures tied to an individual are hypothetical and illustrative. In 2015, the same three months of the economy were reported as growth, then a contraction, then growth […]
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CPI vs PCE inflation reads like one story until you set the two gauges side by side. The CPI you hear has run about 0.4 point a year hotter than the PCE the Fed targets.
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TradingView’s default RSI 14 and MACD 12/26/9 are 1970s day-trading numbers. Obey their alerts as a long-term investor and the quiet bill runs about $4,757 a decade.
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The ‘volume precedes price 73 percent of the time’ claim has no peer-reviewed academic source. Four major academic papers from 1987 through 2009 contain zero quantification of the specific hit-rate. Lee and Swaminathan’s data shows the high-volume winners retail traders chase reverse fastest over the following years. Acting on the unverified signal costs $1,241,031 over
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Bollinger Band squeeze win rate sits at 50 percent in academic tests of 7,846 trading rules. The compound cost on a $50,000 account over 15 years reaches $26,328.
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A 2012 study tested 7,846 technical trading rules on the Dow Jones and found zero that beat buying and holding. A $300K portfolio adding $1K monthly forfeits $359,104 over 20 years to MACD’s 1979 default.
Why trust this analysis Danny Hwang; aggregated 5-market RSI 70/30 trading-rule profitability Tables from Chong-Ng-Liew JRFM 2014. Hit rates verified against published Brock-Lakonishok-LeBaron t-statistics; 4-year crypto cross-asset confirmation; methodology open. Sources verified May 2026; corrections logged within 24 hours. 📅 Originally Published: May 12, 2026 Last Updated: May 13, 2026 Editorial transparency: This article was
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