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My Day Trading Journey ep1: The Preliminary Plans of an Ignorant Fool

I remember a day in college where I accompanied my dad on some errand that resulted in us going into the off-hours floor of a local accounting firm. I was interested in possibly getting into accounting and saw a room crowded with desks, saying to him that it seemed they were full of people and couldn't use another. He told me that's not what he saw at all. He said when he looked around he saw a room so in need of people that they could hardly fit the desks in. I saw a business filled up and not needing anybody else. My dad saw it as proof they did. This stuck with me all these years. Perspective. Something my dad would often say was "You can't kid a kidder". I guess that was his way of saying 'Stop fooling yourself because you're not fooling me'. Search within yourself and when you get into something, do it with purpose, not a whim. This I've carried with me all my life. I have a wide assortment of interests, but in all of them I am obsessive. It
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LP Buyback

                                                        LP Buyback Simpified:   1. 'A' buys items to convert and trades the items with 'B' + ISK cost to convert   2. 'B' converts items and trades back to 'A'   3. 'B' gives 'A' ISK value (payout = exhange rate x LP cost to convert) Person A buys 20x Cap Booster 800's. Cost to convert 20 of them is 2,000 LP and 2 mil ISK. Person A trades 2 mil. ISK and the boosters to Person B. Person B converts the 20x Cap Booster 800's to Navy Cap Booster 800's and trades them back to A. Person A figures out the rate of exchange (ISK/LP) and gives that to B. If the rate agreed on for example is 700 per LP, then Person A gives 700 x 2,000  = 1,4 mil. Where it gets harder to figure is when larger numbers are used. Example 2 : If we use a larger number, say: 1,000. Person A buys 1,000 Cap Booster 800's. Since each order is 20 cap boosters, it means they trade 1,000 to Person B

Trends in Religiosity in America

Gallup started collecting data in 1948 relating to religious trends in the United States. In that year the percentage of Americans stating they are Protestants was 69%, Catholics made up 22%, and no religion was at 2%. The high point in these studies for Protestants was in 1954 and 1956 when the percentage of Protestants reached 71%. The high point for Catholicism was in the 80's when it reached 28% and 29%. The Jewish populace has hovered pretty consistently between 2% and 4%. Mormonism wasn't really measured until the 80's and remains about 2%. Skip ahead to 2016's figures. Protestants are down to 37%. Catholics remain at 22%. Jewish is at 3%, Mormonism is at 2%, and non-specific Christian at 10%. No religion is at 18%. So, while the number for Catholics, Jews, and Mormons has remained fairly stabled over the 60+ years, the two major trends is the decline of Protestantism down from 71% to 37%, and the rise of no religion from 2% to 18% It appears given this data t

Eve Online: How I Run My Fleets

-- WORK IN PROGRESS -- When considering fleets, I first decide the purpose. If it's to plex, I design the fleet around that purpose. Every member of fleet has a role. This may include ECM, Logi, Dps, getting Point, etc. Before heading out callers are decided on. E1 is the primary target caller, E2 is secondary caller, E3 is tertiary caller. If the E1 goes down the E2 immediately promoted as primary caller. If E2 also goes down, E3 is the primary caller. Plexing Philosophy: I prefer to take systems as quickly as possible. This means that we run multiple plexes at the same time, and assign members to plexes in proportion to our numbers. When a plex is almost finished, all members that are in other plexes and wish to share LP go to that plex for completion and then return to the one they were plexing. If everyone does this it means that everyone will end up with the same LP. When deciding to plex, it's to plex, not use it as an excuse to find fights. The fights will co

Eve Online: FW - Why Choose 60 Squadron?

If you're a newbro Faction Warfare can be overwhelming. You came for various reasons from meeting up with and hanging around a bunch of guys (or gals) and make some friends, to get into some pvp action, or find a means of making ISK. The more you learn about Eve the more you find how expansive the environment is. What we can do for you What is your primary reason for joining Faction Warfare? If it's to get into fights, there's always pvp opportunities and small roaming fleets available. If it's to learn fleet operations, several times a week small and medium-sized fleets are organizing. Our fleets tend to be either frigates or destroyers as they are cheap and you'll lose a lot of them, but in the meantime you'll get into a lot of fights and in so doing will learn and become better at pvp and fleet ops. We sometimes venture into wormholes and at other times we may venture into high-sec for ops there. Primarily, our focus is on the Ammar/Minmatar warzone. Th

Getting Items Shipped to the Warzone from Jita

Draxxus offers a free service for Corp members as a service to the corp. These are the steps you take: 1. With your main (FW character), create an Evemail to your alt (who would be in Jita to buy the items), dragging and dropping the fits (assuming we're talking about ships), from the fitting window tool to the body of the evemail, and send. 2. Log off your main, logging on as your alt (in Jita). Open the email, click on the fitting(s), and the fitting window tool will open. 3. Lower-Right of the window is the buy all button. Press it. When it populates with the items (give it time to find them all), then in the upper-right replace the '1' with the number of copies of that fit you want to purchase. 4. Create an Exchange contract with your main in FW space. Select all the times you want shipped own (that you just bought), and find/select your main character and finish. 5. Log off of your alt and then on as your main. 6. Go to Neocon>Business>Contracts, and

Eve Online - Skilling up for an Effective Hound

For running Amarrian missions against Minmatar rats, the Hound is generally regarded as the best choice. 1. You can stay far away and blap at a distance (70k+ recommended). 2. The damage bonus for Hounds (Explosive) - 15% torpedo bonus per level. To get into a Hound these are the requirements: 1. Spaceship Command I (which allows Minmatar Frigate) 2. CPU Management to II and Power Grid Management II (which allows Electronics Upgrades) 3. Electronics Upgrades to V and Spaceship Command to III allows Covert Ops. 4. Covert Ops I To make the Hound effective, requires more skills. Cloaking to III (at a minimum) Weapon Upgrades to V Advanced Weapon Upgrades I (to III when able) CPU Management to IV when able Bomb Deployment to IV Missile Launcher Operation V Guided MIssile Precision to III (to IV when able) Missile Bombardment to IV when able Missile Projection to IV when able Warhead Upgrades to IV when able Torpedoes to IV when able Rapid Launch to IV when abl