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It was 3 AM, and the London session was bleeding into New York's chaos. I sat hunched over my desk, three monitors flashing charts like strobe lights at a rave. My fingers trembled as I scribbled numbers on a notepad—average gains over 14 periods, divided by losses, multiplied by gods-know-what—trying to pin down the Relative Strength Index before the next candle closed. Sweat trickled down my temple, not from the room's heat, but from the sheer panic of missing a signal. I'd lost $500 the day b

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Rain lashed against the taxi window as we crawled through Manhattan's 5pm paralysis. My knuckles were white around a lukewarm coffee cup, each meter forward feeling like surrender. That's when my driver – a man whose eyes held the weary wisdom of decades in gridlock – tapped his phone mounted on the dashboard. "Try this while we suffer together," he rasped. The screen showed a tangled mess of buses, cars, and traffic lights frozen in chaotic harmony. Bus & Win, he called it. Not a game, he insis

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