Friday, October 16, 2009

On little theory of profitable trading

You know if you're not a PRO trader it's 95% that you'll lose your money in long term. Because you can't be lucky all the time.. You can? Why you're still si poor?!

It's easy mathematics.. You can trow coin in the air and get tail or head 50% each.
But guess two times - it's much harder and mathematically very low chances to do that.
I'm not even speakin about guessing five or ten times at the row.

So what you can do. You can open live trading account. Put for example 2000. And open 10 maximal position - it differs from broker to broker and because leverage (better to open 200:1). For example my broker will alow to open one lot usdjpy.
So each pips=100$. And if you guess you can double! your account closing after 20 pips. And maximum you'll lose 75% of 2000, because all brokers have 25% margin call. 25% of 2000 it's 500 - so you'll lose if you'll get 15 pips in the wrong way.
Of course you can set up a short stop.

And you have the chance to win 2000 and more almost 50% - even if open position trowing coin..

There is another strategy. You can open minimal account with 200$ open position for all that account. 200$ - it's not the big money to lose. But you can get almost 10$ for each pips. So you need 20 pips to double and 60 pips to quadriple your deposit. Look at charts. 100 pips of moovement daily - it's normal.

One thing remember it's much less chances to win second time :(.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Popular partitioning questions

q: Is it safe to partition not empty hdd?

a: With modern software usually it rather safe. But still we recommend to manage partitions on empty drives.

q: How big can be a new parttion?

a: For example you have 120 GB hard drive containing only one partition and you want to make another one. Safely you can make a partition equal to drive's free space. Modern software will warn you if you'll choose more than avaible free space - it'll damage some data. Of course it's ok if you made backups and going to format both partitions. BE CAREFULL WITH fdisk and another old software - it's not allowed to change size of partition or if it is, it's not safe.

q: I've made a partition and have installed Windows, but it's written than NTDLR missing or OS doesn't installed. What shoul I do?

a: Usually it means that partition with the OS installed isn't active. You can make any partition active in any partitioning software.

q: How can I make partition to install Linux?

a: Usually linux distributives have buildedin partitioning software in installation package. If it's not load boot disk with partitioning software installed. fdisk can't make partitions for linux.

q:What are the recommendations for making a partitions?

a: We recomend you to improve the speed and to increse safety install Windows and applications on one partition and store the data on another partitions. Usually it's enough 10-20GB for system partition. For linux there are another recommendations you should have separate partition for swap separate partition for OS and separate for data, better advices for linux you can find on Linyx specialized forums.

q:What the difference in FAT16 FAT32 and NTFS?

a: The differences in this filesystems are in maximum file size allowed and in the security and size of the cluster. Usually there choise between FAT32 and NTFS, NTFS is faster allows more than 4GB one file size and allow some security management. But if something will happen with partitions FAT32 is easier to restore the data on our own experiense.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Creating a partition first step.

Of course to start partitioning new disk, if there no any operating system, you should boot first and start fdisk for example. You should have boot disk CD or floppy discette, may be next time I'll tell you how to make one by yourself.

First of all you should change the default booting device. Don't worry it's easy. On desctop computer usually you should press "delete" button or F2 button on the laptop, when just reboot begin to enter BIOS and change booting device. Or sometimes it's possible to press F10 or F12 (usually it's written on the bottom of the screen) to chooce booting device.

Than when you are in the bios you shoul chooce "Advanced settings...." and there choose "First booting device".

If you have special boot disk for OS installing purposes it will start GUI menu where you can start fdisk or another partitionin programm automatically. But if you just have boot disk with DOS?

Ok. It's easy you should know a few commands to start what you need in DOS.

DriveLettet: - changes current drive to DriveLetter
dir - shows files and folders in current drive or folder
cd NameOfTheFolder - changes current folder to NameOfTheFolder
cd .. - to go up on folder tree
NameOfTheFile - starts NameOfTheFile.com or NameOfTheFile.exe or NameOfTheFile.bat file
That's it!

So if you boot for example using floppy and screen shows
a:>
and your fdisk is on d:\Fdisk\
you can write cd d:\Fdisk\
or change the drive first
d:
than if you don't remember the exact name of the folder
dir (it will show the list of all the files and folders)
than
cd fdisk (dos is NOT case sensetive)
fdisk (to start the programm)

Good luck!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

How to create a partition from gui

Here it is some new way of creating a partition using Grafical User Interface (GUI) this time.

Download
Install and run the programm.
how to create a partition EASEUS Partition Manager

On this example we have already a partition. So first of all we should resize it.
Choose a existed partition.
how to create a partition EASEUS Partition Manager 2

Press resize/move button on toolbar or choose it on the left side menu.
Than chose partition size (I decreased on 500mb, previous was 2500mb)
how to create a partition EASEUS Partition Manager 3

Than chose unallocated (Press on the picture or chose on the sign "Unallocated")
how to create a partition EASEUS Partition Manager 4

Chose partition label - any name you want. File system NTFS is the best and press ok.
how to create a partition EASEUS Partition Manager 4

That's it. Press apply button and the program will create a partition.