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It is rumored that some retail brokerages are selling  a 
consolidated data-feed with all their client actions in the markets.
I was told that some institutions are making a profitable living by always 
taking the opposite side of the unweighted (disregarding trade size)
average of all client trades.

> I was musing a bit today about system performance.  Let's say that
> you code up a system that produces hideous buy/sell signals... and I
> mean all the wrong signals at all the wrong times.  I'm sure we all
> have well maybe one or two of these lying around :-)...
> 
> Ok, now turn this around as a contrarian indicator.  Sell when it
> says buy, buy when it says sell.  So if it looses 89 trades out of
> 100 and wins only 11, by turning the logic around you should have
> winners 89 percent of the time ...
> 
> Well, it was a thought...
> 
> - Hacker
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