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To: AlphaRomero who wrote (66247)	7/16/2009 10:53:01 AM
From: tyc:>	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78414

>> "...if you "select" an advantageous time period..." In support of his conviction, Stan provided five year currency charts. First, I would argue that currencies are not "everything". Secondly, if we are trend-following we need to be confident that the trend is "current". For the current trend I don't think we need to go back five years nor to 2001 as you might. Arbitrarily, let's use the direction of the 50-day Moving average to indicate the current trend. Here are a couple of charts that give weight to my nagging doubts: Whoops... production problems. However they illustrate the current trend (50 day MA) of $gold:$spx and $gold:$copper.