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This is What is Wrong with Most Statistics of Price Action [Premium Insights]

Not a single day goes by without some fancy statistics of price action shown in financial biosphere or Twitter.  Most of these statistics have something in common: they are useless.  The explanation for that is provided below along with a recent example. Access to article requires Premium Insights subscription.

Most of those who present statistics of price action in financial blogosphere and Twitter appear to understand little about probability and especially expectation. As a result of free access to charting and analysis software, there is proliferation of ludicrous claims about market price action.

We will consider a recent example here, scrutinize the claims made and understand why they are ludicrous.

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