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One of my favorite book titles How I Made $100.00 in Real Estate (2008) :D Off topic book title America's Best Loved Attorneys (2007) very short book

In computer circles, RTFM is shorthand for Read The F***ng Manual :D No offense intended , that's just the first thing I thought of when I saw RTFM.

Same at Clearwater Florida Circuit City and CompUSA stores... about 12 or more people apparently lined up for the Black Friday sale starting no doubt at 6:00am or something. The last time I did something like that was for Rolling Stones concert tickets in 1972! :D

I am rootin' for ya! :cool: I agree with you that there is real talent and knowledge and experience here on ET. There are, of course, a lot of big talking bullsh*tters and a large amount of testosterone floating around as well. Kind of like the computer world, eh? :D

What is the answer to this question? How many times have you tried? Answer A: About 10 times. Answer B: About 10,000 times, for real. I wonder who is more likely to succeed?

An aspect of 10,000 hours involvement that I have lived :mad: is making EVERY mistake in the book... NOW when I encounter certain situations, well, I already know all the WRONG ways to approach, that leaves the CORRECT way to approach. Practice makes perfect. :cool:

Thanks for the heads up. I will probably read this book. There is an interview with him here, on his website: http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html BTW My math suggests 10,000 hours is 5 years of 5 day work weeks, 8 hours a day. I look back on my life and can see mastery after that...

You can remove problem boot drive and make it a slave drive on another computer. Hopefully you should be able to get to your files that you want.

I'll bet the answer is here, I did a search for keyboard shortcuts for NVIDIA http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nvidia+keyboard+shortcuts&fr=yfp-t-305-s&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 One of the links is even a YouTube video. Hope this helps.

Thank you Achilles28 for your comprehensive well informed reply to my question! I think I better understand the gravity of the developments discussed in this thread.

As someone not acquainted with the Nikkei index enough to understand what you are focused on... what is extraordinary about this break? Is it that the Nikkei index has dropped like our Dow Jones index? Or that if Japan sneezes, the rest of Asia gets a cold? Something like that...

My bad :eek:

He really got inside his subjects with his writing, I thought. I was just thinking it would have been way cool if he had chosen to write a novel that included futures trading... I found him very stimulating. Seats next to him at the game. That sounds like an unforgettable conversation...

Sorry to say I just read author Michael Crichton has passed at age 66 of cancer. I'll bet there other ETers that admired him like me. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Wouldn't it be great if they had a futures trader as treasury secretary? :cool: Just a thought. I don't have someone in particular in mind.

A planetarium of the market... Great idea, nutmeg. I saved a Forbes article from about 1985 for myself, about a man who did software along those lines. I thought it was extremely cool. :cool: His concept was more like a 3 dimensional football field. Financial instruments doing...

I am in Largo. I currently am not trading but wish to return to it at the earliest opportunity. I would enjoy talking with fellow futures traders. :cool: I was trading ES.

North American Free Trade Agreement = NAFTA

This is not an advertisement, but a fake product introduction video... The Rockwell Automation Retro Encabulator... It is total bullsh*t but it is done so well. It looks like the pros who make real product videos had a little fun one day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBp5ag6SJH4...

I wouldn't do nuthin else! Futures trading, not herding cats, that is! Reality check... I had to stop trading last October (i am on the early part of the learning curve and I did not blow up but I gotta pay the bills!) I don't even have the data feed anymore and it bugs me big time to...