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See Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp. After reading this book download his trading game and experiment with it - you should find it helpful. It can be found at: http://www.smarttraderblog.com/

See Brett Steenbarger's The Psychology of Trading for a very fresh take on the many psychological hurdles a trader must overcome to be successful.

The Page File is enabled. It uses 60 to 70% when I have my charts up, so I guess it will benefit from an increase. I have a half dozen things running right now and notice it's using about 90%, the highest I've ever seen it. It supports dual channel, but came with only one stick, so I'll be...

Thanks, gnome. I'll check them out.

I Just noticed my PC was using over 80% of it's 512MB of memory, so it seems like it's time to double or quadruple it. The specs. say my PC supports DDR2, PC2-4200 or PC2-5300, at 400MHz. Newegg has some Mushkin it shows as DDR2 667(PC2 5300). Doesn't that 667 indicate MHz? I'm assuming the...

That chart is perfect, thanks, Tums.

There are programs that will take the data(your trades) from your brokerage firm and automatically generate Schedule D-1s from it. Check with your broker for third party accounting tools to see which ones they support. Also, you could ask the IRS if they would accept the documentation on...

Just bought my first laptop, I'm wondering - 1) Is it ok to unplug the power or plug it back in when running? 2) My battery is slowly losing its charge(down to 96%). I'm sure this is just because I have only been using it on AC. So, what should I do to keep the battery in good shape...

This is what I need to be able to do. It seems simple enough, and the TTO almost gets it done, but not quite. A couple of simple changes and the problem would be solved. I hadn't even thought of what happened after I was in the position, as I couldn't get that far. I would think(hope) that...

I just ran across another solution to this problem as well... MBTrading has what they call an SDK, or software developer's kit. If you have programming skills you should be able to configure order entries and other trade management strategies, easily overcoming problems like the one I posted here.

Thanks! I will definitely check out their demo. Alan

Thanks, gnome. And I will definitely disconnect everything. I hadn't heard that before... Alan

I'm getting ready to reinstall XP Pro on my Lenovo PC, so I ran the complete diagnostic program on the hardware, just to see if there might be any hardware problems. The cd drive failed, the test stopped after many failed sectors. I'm wondering, how reliable is such an indication? CD drives...

Has anyone here on ET been stuck with a tax liability on wash sales as a result of not having declared themselves a professional trader? I'm curious about what someone might have experienced upon being told by the IRS that the net sales of a series of day trades are not offset by purchase...

What forces are behind the big moves in index futures that are often seen, like the one seen this morning, at 8:30 AM sharp? Thanks.

Trading ES, all I want to do is place a market order with a stop market a predefined distance from the fill, without regard to direction(long or short). MBT offers a limit + stop market, but it would take to long to implement. I thought I could do it with a market + TTO, until I realized that...

Thanks for the above questions/suggestions. I'm just using one video card, and have uninstalled the original video driver. I updated the Matrox driver, uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Reader, and still have the problem. It is unresponsive only in a pdf., works fine in IE. So it's looking...

I noticed running through a pdf. document that it was suddenly incredibly sluggish, taking up to five seconds to move a single page up or down. It also took this amount of time to close the file. I also get a warning beep from the computer itself(not throught the speakers) when I try to scroll...

For anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the above debate, I highly recommend T. Colin Campbell's The China Study. A very rigorous attempt to get at the bottom of the whole meat/protein question with some very interesting research about animal protein and chronic disease...

Thanks, gnome. So I guess security with these two boxes unchecked is not an issue. That's good to know. Alan