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Off Topic / Re: What should I do with $250?

« on: June 04, 2014, 03:41:25 PM »

Do you think $500 is a good amount to start out with? And did you take any classes before you started investing?

http://www.investopedia.com/forex/
http://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/forex/

Learn. Everything.

$500 is usually the minimum to start with. It's what I started with.

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: June 04, 2014, 03:33:13 PM »

How does thin blood make you bleed more?

What stops you from bleeding is that your blood thickens to block flow out of your body until a scab can form. If your blood is thin to begin with, it has a harder time coagulating (becoming thicker) and causes you to lose more blood.

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: June 04, 2014, 03:13:14 PM »

I mean, there's really no exact science behind it as far as I know. It's just recommended because alcohol thins out your blood, so it could interfere with the initial healing process. The first 72 hours after getting a tattoo are the most important because that's when the surface of the skin heals the most, so you've gotta wash it and lube that stuff up really often to prevent infection. Adding alcohol into the mix kinda messes with it.

Make sure you rub back door cream on it.

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Drama / Re: Topics with false version numbers.

« on: June 04, 2014, 03:07:40 PM »

I agree with this topic completely. Why even bother putting a version number? If you're really that concerned that someone might roll around and be like "LOL THIS TOPIC EXISTS" then put a note at the bottom of your post that says the old one is too old to post in. If it's not, POST IN THAT ONE.

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Off Topic / Re: What should I do with $250?

« on: June 04, 2014, 02:58:33 PM »

bitcoin bubble popped bro

Things generally rally back after bubbles pop. Houses that were hugely affected by the housing bubble pop in 2008 are generally back to similar value.

Whoops, didn't mean to double post. My bad.

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Off Topic / Re: What should I do with $250?

« on: June 04, 2014, 02:56:54 PM »

Wow this is pretty interesting, I still wanna try penny stock trading though. How much do you make from currency trade?

It depends. I've pulled in about 45k in the last 6 months, but every penny has gone back into my portfolio so I can invest more. I've gotta pay taxes on it if I take it out of the investment account.

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Off Topic / Re: EDC Thread

« on: June 04, 2014, 11:44:03 AM »

I carry a backpack everywhere I go. I usually also have my laptop with me, but since I'm on vacation I don't need it. When I'm in the US, my daily carry would be more like:

Wallet, phone, keys, iPad, macbook, headphones, notebook, pens, and various other random stuff in my backpack

You carry a backpack everywhere? That's pretty impressive, I haven't even worn a backpack in close to 2 years.

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Off Topic / Re: EDC Thread

« on: June 04, 2014, 11:41:47 AM »

True that. Replace that with iPad until I get back to the US.

What a stuffty thing to carry with you everywhere.. I was already thinking, 'How does he store his sunglasses?'

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Off Topic / Re: EDC Thread

« on: June 04, 2014, 11:38:45 AM »

literally scanned the entire thread looking for you to say something about this.

OT: wallet, keys, phone, sunglasses

no phone; liar

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Off Topic / Re: EDC Thread

« on: June 04, 2014, 11:34:45 AM »

There's a music festival named EDC that's coming up, thought you were talking about that.

OT: I carry my wallet, keys, and phone.

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Off Topic / Re: The Rec. Drug Thread - FAQ, Q&A, and general information.

« on: June 04, 2014, 11:26:04 AM »

Last time I did acid, intersting things happened and I got in a forum brawl.

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Off Topic / Re: What should I do with $250?

« on: June 04, 2014, 11:16:27 AM »

I agree with the virtual currency part since its about luck, but with Pennystock the more you know how to read graphs -- the more you can predict which stock will do you well. Pennystocks aren't like gambling as people presume it is. Pennystocks usually are easy to navigate through if you understand the market and know what you're doing. It's why I may start soon (I won't use all my money though).

It's actually the exact opposite. Penny stocks are based purely on luck and research, virtual currencies can be invested in by knowing how to read a graph. I was a penny stock trader for about a year and a half when I was younger. I subscribed to every single newsletter and website I could find and spent tons of time researching stocks. Even so, there were days I'd wake up early and buy at market open, and five minutes later the company was worth 50% of what it was previously worth. There were also days where I'd watch it climb to 100% of the value I purchased it at, and I'd sell, then it'd continue climbing to 500%+. Other days I'd not sell at 100% and it'd fall right back to a loss.

Virtual currencies, though very volatile, are actually much more normal financial graphs. You can easily identify trends and patterns in them that would never exist in a penny stock. A good financial trader could make tons of money off of them.

I don't do either anymore. Now I invest in real currencies over the FOREX market. I look at graphs like this all day, and I identify trends (like currently, the short term trend is in jeopardy and is about to either go down or up drastically, my bet is on up) for investment.



So, then I open a trade window:



Volume is set to .2 or $20,000 worth of Yen that I'm purchasing. Hit buy (since I said earlier I thought it was going to go up, otherwise I'd hit sell), then set a point to automatically sell at. I do this thirty times a day, and I've gotten quite good at it, but it's still no magic money maker. There's days I've lost huge amounts of money.

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Modification Help / Re: [RESOURCE] LIHO/HILO Stack

« on: June 04, 2014, 02:03:43 AM »

CompSci newb - what is this form of data structure good for, specifically at this high of a level?

Any kind of constantly mutating list is best stored as a stack. For example, a lot of my bot implementations have a stack system where you push actions to the stack (look here, shoot, etc) to be executed then popped off the stack. This is an example of a FIFO stack (not included in this resource), but there's also uses for HILO/LIHO stacks.

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Off Topic / Re: linux_megathread_3.pkg.tar.xz -- Post your desktop!

« on: June 03, 2014, 01:32:19 AM »

???

I didn't say you can't use vim on PC, I said that you'll never be able to use any other text editor (like word)

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Off Topic / Re: Do you loving swear?

« on: June 03, 2014, 01:29:15 AM »

I swear on my mother's grave! I don't know anything!