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Re: Under financed trader seeking solutions to trigger pulling issue



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> Yeah, but when? In the 1960s? Or early '70s? Let's keep things in
> perspectives. What was the average salaries during the '60-70s?
> $3-10K? What was the median house selling price during that period?
> Under $100K? 

According to the Fed's CPI figures at
http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/data/cpi/cpiaucns, consumer prices are 
4.64x higher than they were in 1970, 5.69x higher than in 1965.

So maybe he started out with the equivalent of $3-4k today.  That's 
still a pretty skinny account.

Gary