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  1. mt_myke

    Completely wasting my time. Learn from this

    MARKETING RANT 
    Funny, one month I had an Adsense check bigger than my combined paychecks for the month...but it was a bit against Google's TOS (a wildcard catch-all redirect that happened to catch a HUGE amount of manually mistyped domains, back when people still typed domain names directly into their PC's...
  2. mt_myke

    Real simple - real snacks!

    EXECUTION 
    All good things must come to an end. So must not so good things. Pretty much this business idea didn't work out. The snack box in its current format is not a viable product. From the little feedback I got, the teen market didn't like it because they were expecting everything to be repackaged...
  3. mt_myke

    Why Forex isn't Fastlane....

    Sustainable for now. 18 months is really the minimum time to establish a system, 24 is better. Just biasing toward long trades (that generally move the same direction as the SP500) would have worked in 2014. Long-term ( > 1 year) market cycles and changes in dynamics is where most systems...
  4. mt_myke

    Why Forex isn't Fastlane....

    14% in a single trade is the kind of result that's not sustainable. There are people most every month that win millions, sometimes over 100 million, playing the lottery as well. I believe successful trading is boring and irritating, scraping out tiny gains and taking one step back for every...
  5. mt_myke

    The Active Forex Traders Discussion

    HOT! INVESTING 
    Expert advisor == lots of coding. If you're up for that the official docs at docs.mql4.com are surprisingly good as far as software documentation goes. If you feel completely lost in space reading those, you need more programming experience before tackling something like an EA. There are...
  6. mt_myke

    Gamblers - what's your game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    That's why I play the lottery. Where else do you get a shot at winning literally hundreds of millions in cash for risking just one or two dollars? Sometimes (not often, but sometimes) the risk/reward even goes above breakeven!
  7. mt_myke

    Gamblers - what's your game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Wow! Wouldn't have guessed that...from what you said before (in the comet lander post) you didn't strike me as the kind of guy to enthusiastically dive into something as math-heavy as Black-Scholes and volatility surfaces... Options are great, though. Even with just "seat of the pants"...
  8. mt_myke

    How to go from 0 to 1

    Depends what skills you have. I've gotten gigs on elance that paid significantly more than my day job. But then again I put in the 10,000 hours doing computer stuff before that event...
  9. mt_myke

    The Active Forex Traders Discussion

    HOT! INVESTING 
    Disclaimer: I haven't used myfxbook or metatrader for some years. However, if it still works the same way, you either give them the read-only password to your account (easier, doesn't always work right with all brokers though) or run the EA or indy that pushes up your trade stats in real time...
  10. mt_myke

    Gamblers - what's your game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Except this is a deck of cards, so the events are not independent. If you're playing with a single deck and 3 queens have been played, but no kings so far, the probability of a king appearing is much higher than a queen. The problem is how to determine you're in a streak before the streak has...
  11. mt_myke

    Why Forex isn't Fastlane....

    I think this is what trips up a lot of novice traders with small accounts. The 12k figure is irrelevant...what percentage of their account does that 12k represent? If that's a 500k account it's a 2.4% gain...nice but hardly spectacular. When I was still active in forex I'd see the pro guys...
  12. mt_myke

    The Active Forex Traders Discussion

    HOT! INVESTING 
    So far, so good!
  13. mt_myke

    How Much Has Content-Based Business Changed?

    PUBLISHING 
    Powtoons is the kind of thing I was thinking of. Imagine a founder being able to take a selfie video against a white office wall, and something like powtoons blends in background video + animation making it look like a professional spot. I expect to see a lot more of this kind of generated...
  14. mt_myke

    The ilrein Progress Thread

    SPEEDWAY 
    What takes an hour and a half to restore? Do you have a separate dev machine? What are you using for CM? Have you tried just an ultra-simple shell script that runs git pull (or similar) on the production side and then does whatever else is needed to update the site? It can't possibly be much...
  15. mt_myke

    How Much Has Content-Based Business Changed?

    PUBLISHING 
    Not to hijack this thread, but is there a "wordpress for video" yet? Something a step beyond just screencapping a PowerPoint presentation, but that still lets you crank out video with heavy use of premade material, the same way WP lets you crank out websites using premade themes. As someone...
  16. mt_myke

    The ilrein Progress Thread

    SPEEDWAY 
    Heroku (and AWS, and Rackspace) aren't really that cheap. IIRC the cheapest AWS node ends up being $15/mo if you run it the entire month. I haven't used Heroku but I think it's more. If you're diligent on updates your DIY VPS should be just as secure as Heroku or anything else. I keep a...
  17. mt_myke

    The ilrein Progress Thread

    SPEEDWAY 
    Like everything else, don't overengineer this until a simple system no longer cuts it. At my day job we used to use a simple script that just syncs file changes (with rsync over ssh) and uses mysqldump to copy the entire db each time. No automatic spin-up and deployment of an entire server...
  18. mt_myke

    My regrets as a 46 year old, and advice to others at a crossroad

    HOT! 
    Hey I wrote a post about this very thing! https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/index.php?threads/56865/
  19. mt_myke

    The Appreneur Path; iOS and Android apps/games

    EXECUTION 
    You don't have to rewrite everything from scratch if you made judicious choices from the start. I know a guy who recently published a game that runs on IOS, Android, OSX, Windows, and Linux...and he wrote the entire system himself. Probably not the route I would go but this was a one-person...
  20. mt_myke

    Wastefulness by Design

    This post is in the "Slowlane" subforum, for a good reason. Not only is the article about slowlaners, but it's written from a slowlane mindset.

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