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Since we're back on stocks again. Anyone use Global Star Satellite Phones or other systems? I've been day trading them for almost a year now and have made some heavy profit from it. They got delisted from the NASDAQ so they are on the OTC now which I believe to be temporary. Unless someone knows something I don't, I see them as a great buy and hold stock which will someday make a nice pay day. Symbol is GSAT. I've considered getting one of their sat phones due to my hobbies taking me far from verizons network. Right now their data capability is very limited and wouldn't really be the reason I'd have their phone anyway. If I need data where only their phones work then slow is the fastest in the world:-)

I was just telling Mike the other day that Apple is on the way out due to competition. They only came back due to a few innovations that were starring everyone in the face which they happened to pull the trigger on. My DDD call was spot on and I made some nice in/out profit a couple of times in the past weeks. Looks like its ready for another one. Maybe I'll look into it again tomorrow. Also pulled off a little profit from URI. I just heard big news from a competitor of DDD, Makerbot, they are signing with Ford to use 3D printers in their R&D.

Thats a pretty interesting article and sort of says what I was talking about in a thread awhile back about the US needing to adapt its workforce to survive. I agree with the article mostly and don't really see a way of adapting at this point. We're basically going to find ourselves (the world) with a few types of jobs, ie managers, designers, repair techs, etc and then there will be a massive number of people who won't have jobs. Our social programs are going to have to be paid for by someone somehow, but I find it hard to believe that a considerably smaller workforce could pull it off. I guess only time will tell and maybe there will be some type of industry created that we haven't even thought of yet that may fill the gap.

I had no idea.

Read the book, understanding exposure if your really interested. It's a quick read. Basically your camera attempts to detect white balance and brightness (exposure) by looking at what it's preceiving as 18% gray. This is why snow will make an underexposed scene. Night time lights as well as room lighting will play havoc with white balance a well so compromises must be made. personally I don't mess with white balance much in night shots and just try to get it to look true to the scene instead of how I think it should look in daylight.

Looking good from my laptop which typically looks to cool so they might be a little warm.

http://www.daytrader.com has a pretty good forum for reading past posts and learning. Not a really active forum, but it looks like one would get replys from at least the admin and more active members.

Maybe some of you already knew this, but I found an interesting internet "industry" in my quest to find a really nice trading forum. The industry is "starting your own web forum." Its complete with a bunch of how to guides written by people who are probably just guessing and even has a sector of companies that for a fee will send writers to your forum to generate traffic. I found one that for about $600 will get you 2,000 posts with so many of that being replys to new threads. The idea they sell you is to buy their post generating services and then use the traffic they generate to up your position on search engines and in turn get AD money flowing to your site. No wonder I've so far failed to find what I'm looking for and noticed that every forum seems to have the same "very few" topics, replys, and same information repeated. What none of them seem to lack is banner AD's. Which in itself is kinda silly since there is no traffic besides people like me passing through.

Sounds like a nice idea. Personally I do day trading so things might happen way to fast. I go for 1-3% profit. I'm not in a position to do it with 100% attention due to a full time job, but I do give it probably 50% attention. I've stopped holding positions more than 1-2 days completely unless I see something that is just impossible to pass up.

Thanks for the links, I'll look through them. Also thought of maybe starting a facebook group to trade tips/discussions with friends. I've positioned myself as a semi pro trader and have a small group of people interested in learning/trading with me. Any ideas on how to share info? Preferably it will be private so only members know about it. Ultimately I may end up establishing a trading company and getting the certs to do the trading for the group, just like hedge funds, etc.

I just looked around its forum a bit and left pretty confused. Very messy.

ohio4x4.com is the best place for all ohio related 4x4 questions. What type of work are you wanting done?

Anyone thats into trading know of any really active forums? There used to be a couple really good ones, but they failed when the market crashed. I've searched since then and haven't found any that are actually active (more than a couple posts per day) and have knowledgeable members. I'd be willing to start one if I thought it would actually grow, but I know how hard it is to grow a forum with real posters.

The question of "paying off the house" also comes down to, are you happy where you are and not likely to move? For me I'd say yes. I got 3400sq ft of home and 5 acres in just the right place that I could live here the rest of my life just fine. The pay off bonus is I don't have to pay a huge price for it monthly until I'm about retirement age and can use that money to enjoy life and trade some more.

If I were left 100-200K I'd probably pay off my house or most of it and refi the rest to a tiny payment to increase my disposable income and security. Otherwise I'd trade with it and not be working a fulltime job if at all for someone else.

Lets pass it, then we'll find out whats in it. LOL

You want a trusted one to help make sure your not getting screwed in the details or forgetting some detail of maintenance that you can get fixed before signing. The attorney might help with the contract, but would they come out to the property with you and do what a real estate agent can do?

Lol, some of us understand that article, but try to explain it to someone who has received the hand outs for a few generations. Sure its not the only way the peoples power has diminished, but it is a major one along with "public safety."

I have a pile of external drive enclosures that have failed over the years. Very bad quality for some reason. I ended up just making a server and backup to cloud. Its been awhile since I've used it so I can't remember the name right off, but I have a recovery software that has been great at recovering photos from SD cards even after a few formats.

When I say DDD is in a downtrend remember I am a trader so I'm thinking short term. Here's a 10 day chart. Looks like its about to make a reversal and continue climbing. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/dddchart_zps99954eaf.jpg

If your looking to get into DDD, its in a downtrend and might be at a good price. Hard to say though this soon into the new year. I'd see how it is shaping up in the next couple of weeks. It could turn out to be a nice longer term hold than I'd normally be doing myself.

Dudes right there is a big difference between trader and investor. Your Granddad could have at least been an investor with his million and made a killing up through the `70's. A trader has to put serious time into reading charts. Whether its a good company or not is irrelevant to me as I look at the charts and time the in's and out's on an intra-day basis. I also don't typically trade stocks above $10 per share and look for ones that move 4% or more a lot. I feel ya on Ford. I've had those mistakes too, but now established a rule for myself that if I ever see an obvious stock at a stupidly good price I drop everything and go in hard. I've been burned by reluctance to many times.

A good Boy Scout troop would be great for your boys. You could be active and learn a bit too. I was a scout in a rural area with a 2nd generation scout master so we were strict to purpose of scouting so we learned survival skills pretty well. Sure it wasn't "extreme", but it built the necessary basic skills. Lots of other positive reasons to join up. If nothing else maybe pick up a boy scout handbook. Lots of good stuff in there.

There isn't much risk involved when I make a trade. Typically I study a specific stock long enough to know its movements. The only thing left is buying in and selling at the best possible price points. Most of the time I get it pretty close and sometimes I knock it out of the park, but these days I rarely take a loss.

Its basically out of the news so I don't expect any "knee jerk" reactions that could have been had it been a leading story during a boring news period. I'm expecting some talk, but it will mostly go unnoticed and be forgotten.