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  • What Is Etf Trend Trading?
    By: Mark Thomas Walters | - Below you will find a short overview on ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) trend trading, which will allow you to make a more informed decision about whether it is the right type of investment for you.

    ETFs were first introduced to the world during the 1990's. Today, they are used as an investment vehicle, traded comparable stocks or shares on the stock exchanges. They are seen as an attractive option to investors because they are low cost and tax efficient. Many are also drawn to them b ...

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  • Exchange Traded Funds
    By: Julia Lee | - Sick of picking stocks? Here's a way that's gaining in popularity.

    It's a difficult time to be stock picking at the moment so many retail and professional investors are turning to buying into exchange traded funds, or ETFs.

    I have family and friends who want to invest in the sharemarket but don't have the expertise to stock pick or don't have the time or inclination. So if you want exposure to the Australian sharemarket or even the US market without spending the time ...

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  • Four Must-know Rules To Profit From Options
    By: panny1 | - Whether youre a novice options investor or youve been trading options for years, four simple rules could mean the difference between serious gains and major losses. Heres everything you need to know to go from optionless to an options whiz

    Every day, scores of novice options investors get burned. Its not because theyre bad investors, its simply because theyre not following the rules. Theres no question that options are tricky it can take years to learn ...

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  • These Best In Breed Etfs Hold Amazing Profit Potential
    By: panny1 | - Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have taken hold as one of the most popular investments on the market today. Now, with global assets in ETFs estimated to hit $1 trillion by 2010, a new class of actively managed ETFs is poised to become the next big thing for your portfolio.
    Heres a look at how these exciting new investments are gaining ground and how you can get a piece of the action with an ignored small-cap fund
    ETFs baskets of securities that trade on major exchanges ...

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  • Understanding The Forex Market
    By: AHmad Hassam | - Right now forex trading is being promoted as the Recession Proof Business of the 21st Century. Many investors got their fingers burnt in the recent stock market crash. They are looking for new opportunities to rebuild their retirement savings. Is forex trading the solution? Forex trading has got some benefits. You can trade forex from anywhere in the world. You only need a computer, an internet connection and a few hundred dollars to begin trading. But before you trade forex understand the forex ...
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  • Momentum Trading: An Art Form Performed Security By Security
    By: Matt kaldor | - For most people, momentum trading is used to describe the manner in which short term trading decisions are made in relation to significant price changes in securities. Using technical analysis and the use of technical indicators, momentum traders look to get ahead of the next upcoming trend or determine the strength of the current price trend in place. In short, momentum trading focuses on identifying the trading opportunities that arise from the market changing from one direction to another. ...
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  • Etf Trading For A Living - What To Know About Etfs
    By: Tom Leroy | - Much similar to stocks, an exchange-traded fund (or ETF) is an investment medium traded on stock exchanges.

    Most ETFs in the United States are structured as open-end management investment companies. However a few ETFs are structured as unit investment trusts and include some of the major ones.

    ETFs are a fast growing class of assets. By improving your ETF trading with quantified strategies, High Probability ETF Trading will give you the edge in certain quantified strat ...

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  • Mutual Funds Trading Vs Exchange Traded Funds Trading
    By: Tom Leroy | - Taking it individually ETFs and Mutual Funds have their advantages, with each having their disadvantages as well. Exchange-Traded Fund or ETF for short is an umbrella of stocks or bonds that trade on the stock market at a set price, just like any common stock. Since 1993, ETFs have been traded in the US and since 1999 in Europe. They have grown considerably from the recorded 32 in the US Markets in 1999. There are now about a 1000 available to date. They are traditionally index funds and in 200 ...
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  • What Are Your Etf Trading Strategies ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - ETF Trading , just like any other form of trading requires few skills and knowledge. But your trading experience can also be improved with a good strategy. Here are few ETF strategies you may or not know about.

    An Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) is a form of investment portfolio made up of many investments that characteristically trade like stocks. The American stock exchange is where ETFs are mainly found to be traded on.

    It holds an assortment of securities that are intend ...

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  • Etf Trend Trading - Set Up In 5 Minutes ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - An exchange-traded fund also known as ETF is nothing but an investment fund, to a large extent like stocks, and are traded on the worlds stock exchanges. They can be bought and sold right through the day, similar to stocks, on a securities exchange via a financial advisor, mutual fund manager or broker. To augment your stock market returns spectacularly there are numerous diverse types of trading systems available at your fingertips.

    One significant thing to keep in mind abo ...

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  • Have You Considered Etf Trading ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - An ETF or Exchange-traded Fund is another form of an investment portfolio made up of many investments that trade like stocks. It holds an assortment of securities that are intended to track the performance of an index and unlike many mutual funds; it can be bought and sold rapidly working in response to market movements similar to stocks or bonds that are traded throughout the day, mainly on major stock market exchanges. The American stock exchange is where ETFs are mainly found to be traded on. ...
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  • Profit From The End Of Cheap Oil With This Etf
    By: pen123 | - Were well on our way to $200 oil. Are you ready?

    Turn on CNN, Fox News, or CNBC, and youre all but guaranteed to see a panel of experts who are betting on cheap oil. Theyre making a huge mistake. Now more than ever oil is poised to rocket back up to triple-digit prices and the investors who make smart bets now are going to make a fortune in the process.

    Americans are getting misled about the oil crisis that were really facing. Des ...

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  • Gold, Silver And Oil Trading Expert Helps Investors Learn The Ropes
    By: Chris Vermeulen | - Often the conventional wisdom is to stay invested in the stock market and in real estate. But millions of investors following that often-touted strategy have seen their portfolios drop by half or more.

    "Investors everywhere have had it with staying the course only to see their life savings disappear. That's one of the key reasons highly profitable gold and oil are becoming the investor's choice for the 21st century," said Chris Vermeulen.

    He provides traders with f ...

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  • Gold Etf Trading Signals And Education For Beginner Traders
    By: Chris Vermeulen | - Gold etf trading signals allows beginner traders to taking advantage of the gold market using the GLD exchange traded fund to generate consistent profits in any market condition.

    As I mentioned before, the past 5 months have been very frustrating for most traders as we are stuck in this sideways price action. I also noted that August to December is generally the stronger months for gold. Although gold has been under selling pressure during the last 4 weeks I think there is light a ...

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  • Gold Etf Trading The Gold Etf Experience
    By: Chris Vermeulen | - Gold etf price action in the past 5 months has frustrated many traders. Especially those who have difficulty making money during consolidation periods which are in. The past couple months are consistently the weaker months for gold prices year after year. That being said August through year end have been consistently strong for trading gold and gold ETFs.

    Gold spot price, you will see that gold found support at the 50 exponential moving average and also found major support at the ...

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  • Introduction To Exchange Traded Funds (etfs)
    By: Ranju Kumar | - An Exchange Traded Fund (or ETF for short) trades on stock exchanges just the like any other stock. ETFs are usually linked to a stock, bond or commodity index. The underlying basis for an ETF is that it is backed by assets in the same proportion as the index to which it is linked. This process is known as replicating the index.

    Some stock-index ETFs undertake "representative sampling", in which case the ETF comprises of the key stocks which represent the index. The ETF price ther ...

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  • Short Selling In A Nutshell
    By: Ranju Kumar | - Most investors think that when the stock market is going down, you cannot make any profits. Well, they are wrong because there are traders out there who are able to easily earn profits when stocks are tanking. You can also do this by using a technique called short selling (or shorting).

    Short selling is not really complicated. However, many people have trouble grasping this concept. Generally, people invest by purchasing an asset with the expectation that it will appreciate in pri ...

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  • Make Money Day Trading - 6 Day Trading Tips How To Make Money
    By: Peter Skotnicky | - Day trading is hard and intimidating but with these quick tips you can make money day trading and have successful side income that makes you money. In day trading you need to constantly be watching the markets picking stocks and following market trends. Here are a few tips to help you.

    1. Do your homework

    Part of trading is getting in tips and information and keeping up on the markets. Yahoo Financial, The Journal, and other places to find your information and then ...

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  • Why You Should Be Trading Etfs (exchange Traded Funds) In Your Investing Portfolio.
    By: Minesh Bhindi | - ETFs have been popularized because a lot of people have finally seen the benefits of trading ETFs in their portfolios. In this article - I'm going to take you through some of the reasons why I trade ETFs in my zero risk investing account.

    Here's the reasons:

    1. You Can Invest In A Basket Of Stocks.

    When you're not investing in any single stock and you're investing in an ETF - you're Index Investing. This means that you're literally buying a small piece in e ...

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  • Investing Tips, Swing Trading, Investing Journal
    By: brucejack | - swing trading- a swing trader looks for short-term opportunities in the market to go long at a relative low, or get short at a relative high, with the expectation of closing their position in one to several days. Swing trading involves a longer time horizon than day trading, but avoid holding an open position beyond a week or two.
    Swing trading can be effectively utilized on a part-time basis, allowing a trader to also have a day job. With the sophisticated conditional orders available t ...

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  • Swing-trading, Investing-tips, Investing-journal
    By: brucejack | - swing trading- a swing trader looks for short-term opportunities in the market to go long at a relative low, or get short at a relative high, with the expectation of closing their position in one to several days. Swing trading involves a longer time horizon than day trading, but avoid holding an open position beyond a week or two.
    Swing trading can be effectively utilized on a part-time basis, allowing a trader to also have a day job. With the sophisticated conditional orders available t ...

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  • Make Money With Swing Trading, Investing Tips And Investing Journal
    By: Mark Waugh | - Swing trading systems capitalize on the oscillations experienced in the stock prices. In this style of trading, the returns on a stock can be gained in few days. Traders employing this style can leverage on the short term stock movements without fearing any stiff competition from the big players in the market. Swing trading systems are best suited for the at-home investors who can afford to watch over the market progress once in a day or week.
    Investing tips - the stock market should pre ...

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  • Swing Trading, Investing Tips, Investing Journal
    By: Mark Waugh | - Swing trading is a popular method of capitalizing on the short-term price variations of the stock market. It has earned a reputation of being a powerful method of maximizing profits at lower risks. The best swing trading strategy involves choosing the right stock and the right market. Swing traders usually choose the stocks that fluctuate at extreme ends. Swing trading strategy is employed in a stable market, because here the prices tend to have minor variations on which the swing trader can cap ...
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  • What Are Etfs -- Exchange-traded Funds
    By: MACarticles | - You may have heard of ETFs. What exactly are they?

    Introduction
    Exchange-Traded Funds, or ETFs, are just like mutual funds but that trade on stock exchanges, with a few differences. This gives them many of the advantages of stocks while avoiding some of the downsides that mutual funds have.

    Why Use ETFs
    Have you ever wanted to trade shares of an index like the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500? You can't trade that directly but you can do it ...

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  • What Are Etfs (exchange-traded Funds)?
    By: Nicholas Swezey | - Exchange-Traded Funds, or ETFs, are basically like mutual funds that trade on stock exchanges, with a few important differences. This gives them many of the benefits of stocks while removing some of the disadvantages that mutual funds have.

    Purpose of Them
    Have you ever wanted to trade shares of an index like the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500? Well, you can't do that directly but you can do it indirectly through ETFs. The managers who run them usually inves ...

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  • Swing Trading, Investing Tips, And Investing Journal
    By: Bruce Jack | - Swing trading is a popular method of capitalizing on the short-term price variations of the stock market. It has earned a reputation of being a powerful method of maximizing profits at lower risks. The best swing trading strategy involves choosing the right stock and the right market. Swing traders usually choose the stocks that fluctuate at extreme ends. Swing trading strategy is employed in a stable market, because here the prices tend to have minor variations on which the swing trader can cap ...
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  • Can Oil Be Turning The Corner?
    By: Price Headley | - Has Oil turned the corner versus Gold?

    The relationship between Gold and Oil prices has long been examined and there are many theories about it. Let's take a look at the recent relative performance of these 2 key bellwether commodities and see if any trend changes are emerging. We will use USO as a proxy for Oil, USO is the U.S. Oil Fund ETF which seeks to reflect the spot price of West Texas light sweet crude oil. For Gold, we will use GLD, which is the SPDR Gold Shares ETF th ...

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  • Advantages Of Etf Trading System
    By: Danny Braks | - The biggest advantage of using the ETF trading system in general is it provides you with diversification. The funds are containers or baskets. This is different to the stock of a single company. There are many opportunities to increase your funds using the ETF trading system but its important you use a reputable system to track ETFs. If you have no knowledge of this kind of trading then it would be to your advantage to use a suitable software package. T ...
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  • Etd Trend Trading And Norms
    By: Danny Braks | - Exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs) are derivative products traded through specialized derivates exchanges or other similar exchanges. The derivates exchange acts as a go-between for all related transactions, taking initial margin from each side of the exchange to act as a guarantee.

    Some of the worlds largest derivatives exchanges are:

    Korea Exchange The Korea Exchange lists the KOSPI (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) Index Futures & Options. It ...

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  • Basics Of Etf Trading
    By: Danny Braks | - ETFs, or exchange-traded funds, were first introduced to the market in the early 1990s and are used as an investment vehicle, traded similar to stocks or shares on stock exchanges. These funds are often attractive to investors because of their tax efficiency, low costs and similarity to stocks. ETFs have been called the most innovative investment medium of the last twenty years by 67% of investment professionals in March 2008. Of these professionals, 60% reported that ETFs have significa ...
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  • Options In The Stock Market
    By: Stephen Swanson | - Since October of 2007, markets have declined nearly 45% with the likelihood of even more weakness in 2009. In previous articles I have written about shorting double beta ETF's like the DDM or QLD, or trading inverse ETF's like the DXD and the QID, both of which will go up in value as markets tumble. These two strategies have been remarkably profitable during the last 18 months.

    But as the bearish longer term trend takes an expected breather now and then, and as markets can move si ...

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  • Brief Review On Types Of Mutual Funds
    By: Tarun Jaswani | - A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities. The mutual fund will have a fund manager that trades the pooled money on a regular basis. Currently, the worldwide value of all mutual funds totals more than dollar 26 trillion.

    A Trading Fund is a UK government department, or an executive agency or part of the department, ...

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  • Using Cta Trend Following Systems To Find Global Macro Trading Opportunities
    By: David Taggart | - CTA's or commodity trading advisers have been using long term trend following technical rules for years with great success. Some of the benefits of such a system is that once you have designed and tested the system it does not usually take much time to update it and have your trades ready for the next day.

    Some of the common public domain type systems are based on moving average crossovers, Bollinger bands, and Donchian channels. While there are hundreds if not thousands of vari ...

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  • Precious Metals Spread Betting Trends
    By: Daniel Jones | - Gold may be at its lowest point for 2008 and other metals may be on the way down too but what were the five key influences on their meteoric price rise?

    Over the past five years the price of precious metals has more than doubled. The surge has been attributed to a combination of the following:

    1)Depreciation of the US dollar. The World Gold Council provides evidence supporting the view of an inverse relationship between the price of gold and the US dollar. Over the ...

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  • Options Trading Quotes - Option Trading Tools - Option Quotes 619
    By: optionstradingdomain | - On the contrary, if the underlying stock associated with an option were susceptible to violent price fluctuations, also called beta, it is said to be of high volatility, and rewarded with a higher premium. The Bear Call Spread is implemented by buying a put option while simultaneously writing a put option with a lower strike price. There are certain stock investment options which deliver assured and consistent high returns over the long term and allow you to sleep peacefully too. One benefit of ...
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  • Trading Forex- Why Trade Currencies? (part 1 Of 2.)
    By: Mike P. Kulej | - When a person wants to enter trading arena, one of the most important questions is What should I trade?. There is an overwhelming choice of financial instruments available for trading; stocks, bonds, futures, commodities, options, mutual funds, ETF's, all kinds of derivatives like swaps and forwards and , of course, currencies or spot Forex.

    Perhaps it's not a surprise, that majority of people start their trading adventure in stocks. These financial vehicles are relative ...

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  • Stock Options - The Greatest Wealth Building Tool Ever Invented
    By: Danny Swad | - It is a well known fact that serious investors seeking long term growth of capital have as their main objectives the two most basic goals in investing:

    to find an investment vehicle that would effectively preserve capital and minimize risk in the face of a fluctuating and constantly flexing economy
    the investment vehicle must provide better than decent yields in all economic conditions to promote constant growth of capital value.

    With the stock market ...

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  • Etf Profit Driver Review
    By: TheOptionClub.com | - ETF Profit Driver takes investing in exchange traded funds to a new level, adding one more reason to abandon your old mutual funds in favor of ETF products. Bill Poulos has assembled a comprehensive method of managing a portfolio of ETF's in a manner that drastically reduces risks associated with market downturns, while dramatically increasing potential for sustained capital appreciation.

    Based on a study conducted a few years back, about 10% of all long-term mutual-fund assets we ...

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  • Etf Profit Driver - Another Reason To Favor Exchange Traded Funds
    By: TheOptionClub.com | - Holding equity positions during a sustained market downturn can decimate a portfolio. An alternative is to adopt a trading methodology that inserts capital into the market at safe entry points as a favorable trend emerges, then removes capital as the trend breakdown. Bill Poulos has compiled such a method in his ETF Profit Driver course.

    Based on a study conducted a few years back, about 10% of all long-term mutual-fund assets were held in index funds. Those funds offer comparati ...

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  • The Next Best Thing Of Online Forex Trading
    By: Cornel Tanady | - Computers were once used only for entertainment, particularly for playing games. But as time passes by, more productive endeavors using computers have been developed, like for instance online forex trading. In the past foreign exchange trading was only restricted to large financial institutions like banks and the likes. And the only time that private individuals are exposed to foreign exchange trading is when they visited the bureau to change or to convert their money for some other foreign curr ...
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  • Understanding Online Brokerage System
    By: LesleyLyon | - Many industries have profited from data exchange over the Internet but they face several impediments when it comes to the actual transfer of physical products. Only with online brokerage industry, transactions occur where "information is sold as a commodity without the transfer of physical goods. The Internet is accurately the means, which transforms the dynamics of brokerage industry. Within the financial services, Internet trading is the first industry to maximize the Internet's potential a ...
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  • Online Brokerage
    By: Alex Joy | - Does the idea of an international online brokerage business excite you? Are you on the lookout for right products and the right platform do your business? If the answer to these questions is yes then you are probably at the right place, at the time. Online brokerage stock trading has never been easier and uncomplicated then now.

    The process of online brokerage and stock investment is much simpler as compared to earlier times. In the age of the Internet, buying and selling of stoc ...

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  • Online Stock Brokerage
    By: Vijay Kumar | - Online Stock Brokerage - Let your bucks work for you

    You must have dreamt. Not only in sleep but also while in full consciousness. Not just a random meaningless dream, but a desire, a longing for something big, bigger than what you are. Often bigger than what you think you can ever achieve. But, you are mistaken. When Thee has put a dream in your mind, he must also have laid a path to realize it. But people do not often reach that path. They try satisfying their devour with two sl ...

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  • Investing: Level-headed Or Lazy?
    By: Robert Valentine | - Passive investment management may be the Rodney Dangerfield of financial strategies--it gets no respect. Active investment strategies have had the spotlight so long, some investors may be surprised to find there is an alternative to stock picking, market timing and other faster-paced, more glamorous methods.

    Active investment management uses research, investigation and analysis to select investments that the selector believes will outperform the general market indexes. Passive inv ...

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  • An Exciting Bond?
    By: Robert Valentine | - Since 1993, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have provided another investment tool for Americans. ETFs may offer easy trading options and their convenience, along with their added bonus: diversification.

    In fact, according to the Investment Company Institute, since their inception, money invested in ETFs has grown to over $250 billion dollars.

    ETFs mirror an index or focus on a specific industry or country. What sets them apart from mutual funds is that ETFs are traded ...

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  • Commodity Investing For Your Portfolio
    By: Randy Zakowski | - Even though throughout the last thirty or so years, the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) has been in a downtrend and the S&P 500 as been in an uptrend many people continue to invest in commodities. Before we look at why and how they are becoming successful investors, let us look at what the CRB is. The Commodity Research Bureau is something similar to the Dow Jones. It mathematically combines the prices of commodities to determine just how the commodities are moving. The equation is performed by ...
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