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The world’s economies continue to be strong and are growing.

Stock markets around the world dropped on Tuesday. If the markets drop stock trading system too much then they get a ‘margin call’. When you’re leveraged 30:1, it means you have to sell a lot of investments. They’re forced to go back to work and must resort to eating beans and rice. That may have been what occurred yesterday. Here in the U.S., the major indexes were down over 3%. To equal the market drop in 1987, Tuesday’s total decline would need to be 2700 points.

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