Nth setback

Always suspected the instrument data I'm fetching was flawed, and sure enough I have realized that purchases and sales of the instruments are added to and subtracted from the value of the instrument - which has a huge impact when a lot of trade is going on.

The double-checking I implemented has had very little correlation with the instruments, which I somehow shrugged off. Oh the cognitive dissonance! I so bad wanted it to work, I simply ignored the double-check trial and epic fail.

So what does this mean? One of two things. Either I'm able to reduce the trade effects and possibly end up around the 500% mark, or this just proves that I need to use the same shit stock as everybody else. I'm still optimistic about finding the beautiful golden calf, just a little bit rattled...