If you eclipse or constrain this brainstorming process, you will stymie your own growth, and you very well may miss the one core idea that would lead you to your most exciting professional life.

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When the realization that you are hated by the entity you are pursuing for profit becomes the core of your existence within the financial markets, you approach things from a very different point of view.

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Over the last 12 months, we have seen five such technical patterns that you could have used to, at the very least, protect yourself, and, at best, generate cash flow around your core long-term positions.

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