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> A golf instructor told me this story about a newsletter stock picker guru.
> 
> A stock picker guru writes a newsletter that he sends off to 10'000
> customers each week. Each week he picks ten sure winner stocks that he says
> are going to go up that week. (And everyone pays for the weekly
> newsletter.)
> 
> When the week is finished, he had guessed five winners and five losers.
> 5'000 customers of his newsletter had, by chance, bought stocks on the
> winning side of his calls so they take his newsletter another week. The
> other 5'000 customers had, by chance, bought stocks on the losing side, so
> they drop his newsletter.

That's from a 1960's Twilight Zone.  I had to do with predictions, but the gist
of the story is the same. ;-)

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Dave