The business world hailed the 1920s as the "New Era, " one with new rules in which the old pattern of cyclical depressions would no longer occur and prosperity would be continuous.

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The pattern that emerges, he says, is of a society wishing to punish those who disobeyed the social rules of the time.

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My trading rules dictate that I have a basing period from which I can determine risk reward, and BP has no such pattern.

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