Though a statistical analysis of history provides averages across a wide variety of market conditions, the relevant periods for analysis are those with similar characteristics.

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Computer analysis is less subjective, and measures the characteristics of individual pixels (the dots from which images are built up) taken from scanned samples of writing.

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