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School discipline : a whole-school practical approach
This collection of educational films highlights the importance of school pride and rules, often in imaginative ways; in one of the films, a group of schoolchildren go to a deserted island where there are no rules–resulting in LORD OF THE FLIES-like mayhem. Include in this vintage set are HOLIDAY FROM THE RULES (1959), HOW QUIET HELPS AT SCHOOL (1953), MAINTAINING CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE (1947), SCHOOL RULES: HOW THEY HELP US (1953), and HOW ABOUT SCHOOL SPIRIT (1958).
In two weeks a group of 14 people from different walks of life were taught to trade, and these turtles as they were nicknamed became world famous.
Theres much to learn from the turtle traders – lets look at how they did it and how we can copy them.
The turtle trading experiment proved ANYONE can become a successful trader and everything about trading can be learned.
Traders with no experience learned the tools to make millions in just two weeks, and they came from a variety of diverse jobs and backgrounds, including:
· An actor
· A security guard
· Two professional card players
· A bookkeeper
· A boy fresh out of school
· A woman who used to be an exchange clerk
They then went on to make annualized 70% returns!
Is Trading a Learned Skill, or is it all Down to Natural Ability? In 1984, Richard Dennis taught a Trend Following trading methodology to a group of students, to prove anyone, no matter what their profession, could be taught to trade successfully in financial markets.
Dennis was settling a debate with his friend and business partner William Eckhardt over whether trading skills could be taught to anyone.
The Importance of Following Trading Rules
Dennis believed that trading abilities, given in a set of rules, could be taught to others. Eckhardt believed trading abilities had more to do with innate instincts.
The Experiment
The group of 14 traders he taught (the turtles) earned an average annual compound rate of return of 80% far in excess of most professional asset fund managers, proving Dennis right.
What the Experiment Proved
The experiment with the turtles showed that anyone could indeed be taught to trade – all they had to do was learn, and follow a set of rules.
This is where we can all learn something from the turtle trading experiment.
What you can learn from the Turtles
Trading actually looks quite simple, yet few succeed.
The reason most traders fail is simply they cannot get the right mindset. The turtle trading experiment taught them the RIGHT MINDSET to succeed.
The system they were taught was essentially simple, so simple in fact, that anyone with the will to learn it could.
Dennis however realized that the problem was that most people can trade successfully, but don?t because they can?t trade with discipline. Their emotions get the better of them and they end up losing.
Why is Discipline so Important?
Quite simply, without the discipline to follow a method, you don?t have a method in the first place, and are doomed to failure – money management goes out the window and losses follow.
Dennis taught them to have confidence in the system they were trading, and follow it rigidly to achieve success.
A Simple System made the Turtles Money
Dennis also knew that complicated trading methods are NOT likely to be more successful than simple ones – in fact, a simple trading system is more likely to be successful, as it will be more robust in the face of changing market conditions.
Not only was the system simple, it was easy to understand – meaning the turtles had confidence in it and could apply it with rigid discipline.
So, What can we Learn from the Turtles?
Well, we know that anyone can learn to trade quite quickly. We also know that simple systems applied with discipline and strict money management will work over time.
The turtle story is inspiring, as we know that anyone with the mindset to succeed can, and it doesn?t matter what we do for a living – trading success is within reach of all of us.
Sacha Tarkovsky
http://www.articlesbase.com/investing-articles/turtles-made-millions-now-you-can-too-80414.html
Nov 2
A True Winner
He was called “Half-Man Half-Fish” and “The Deep Sea Frog” by his fans in the recent 2008 Beijing Olympics. He awed spectators when he broke world records and won all 8 swimming events in Beijing. All eyes were on him and the contest was between all other swimmers and Michael Phelps.
Michael Fred Phelps was born on June 30 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Fred Phelps, works for the Maryland State Police and his mother Debbie Davisson Phelps, is presently a middle school principal. His parents got divorced in 1994. Michael has two other siblings Whitney and Hillary who were also swimmers, unfortunately Whitney got into an accident which derailed her career. Michael graduated from Towson High School in 2003 and attended college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he studies sports marketing and management. In May 2008, the 6”4, 194 lbs swimmer decided to return to Baltimore saying “I am not going to swim for anybody else” and was decided to help the North Baltimore Aquatic club go further.
Phelps as a young teenager started his training at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club under Coach Bob Bowman. His first International competition was at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia. He was only 15 at that time making him the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Game. He didn’t win any medal; however he finished fifth in the 200m butterfly. After 5 months thereafter, he was able to break the world record in the 200m butterfly making him the youngest man ever to break a swimming record. Then, he was able to make a name for himself. Because of his fame and outstanding success, some people labeled him as “too good to be true”. But like any other man, Phelps has his own life with his own cross to bear. The only difference is he has too much determination.
In his youth, Phelps was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD which is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder which is typically present during childhood. This is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention or hyperactivity, as well as forgetfulness, poor impulse control and distractibility. This is a chronic condition with no medical cure. However medication and therapy can treat symptoms. For his part he got engaged in swimming to put an outlet for his “extra energy”. He started swimming at the age of seven. He found a passion for swimming and at age 10 he excelled by holding a national record for his age group. In 2004, he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Salisbury, Maryland. He pleaded guilty, was fined $250 and was made to speak to high school students about drinking and driving, and to attend A Mothers against Drunk Driving Meeting. Following the incident he realized that he had let himself and his family down.
Michael Phelps, I believe, is one guy everybody should look up to. He is doing an incredible job. Like any other man he believes has his own battle to win. He doesn’t depend on luck to win his battles. He has discipline, determination and teamwork in his system. Despite of all the fame and glory, he remains humble and does what any other 23 year old do; play hip hop music and texts his buddies. He seems too good to be true. “There are moments that I will never forget” he said in an interview. For sure, neither will the whole world.
Rita Mae Badrina
http://www.articlesbase.com/water-sports-articles/a-true-winner-746167.html
The most Important Article on Day Trading for Beginners.
Telling it as it is!!!!!
Trading is not for everyone, you can lose lots of money trading and trading can make you lots of money, if you plan, study and work hard.
The appeal of day-trading and its overwhelming popularity of late stems from its easy accessibility, and promises of easy money.
Trading is a game of probabilities and at any given point in time a move may happen out of nowhere that was totally unforeseeable.
There are few jobs at which it is more difficult to make a living than trading!
Estimates are that 80% to 90% of all those who begin trading today will lose their trading capital within the next 12 months.
However, if you study diligently, read the works of “the masters,” plan your work and work your plan, you can make a decent living trading right from your desk at home. With your computer, that is.
Officially, “day-trading” is the act of trading during the daily market hours and closing all of your trades before the market closes each day.
To make a living at day-trading, you need the large daily point moves. This is referred to as volatility. Without volatility, a day-trader cannot make money.
You only need to make $100 per day starting with 1 lot. No need to overtrade or be greedy. As your account increases, add the number of lots.
Predicting where the market is going to go.
Not even the professional trader has an idea what is likely to happen to a particular trade, whether it will go in his favor or not. You will never be able to predict the market. So, your best bet is to follow the market, because you certainly aren’t going to lead it.
It is very risky for inexperienced futures traders who try to predict the market and speculate without having enough resources or experience.
Lack of understanding leads to rumours, false belief and wild stories.
New traders with PhDs and new traders lacking high school diplomas succeed and fail alike trading.
Once you realize that the market is not a thinking entity that has an evil streak that doesn’t want you to succeed, you can learn to trade “in the moment”.
The markets are always producing information. That information is always what “has” happened, not what “will” happen. The trader, on the other hand, will take this information and then arrive at some bias or belief as to what “may” happen, or what “should” happen, or “will” happen. No two traders are likely to come to the same exact conclusion although the market is providing them all the same information.
Over the years, system traders have worked out the most important things that bring trading success – it should not be surprising that they have achieved the success they have because it has taken them a great deal of time to learn how to trade well.
Learning from scratch by personal experience is very expensive in all walks of life and especially so in commodity trading. It is therefore surprising how many new traders choose this perilous alternative.
Your trump card in day-trading consists of two components: discipline and method. The most difficult practice for every trader is discipline.
Having “No Fear” to take the next and the next and the next trade no matter what. If you can master this single element, you will be ahead of 99% of all traders. Having the discipline to repeat your proven strategy, day after day, is the single most important facet of successful trading.
Above all, you need to be able to trust your system not to make a hash of things. You have to feel completely comfortable that your system will not make a hash of things.
If you have a simple method that will produce a steady, though small, profit regularly – and follow it religiously – you will be the trader who walks away consistently winning.
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Linda Wainman
http://www.articlesbase.com/finance-articles/the-most-important-article-on-day-trading-for-beginners-64555.html
Oct 29
Senior year of high school Julio started using inhalants. He was bored. A friend offered him gold spray paint. He inhaled, and got a buzz. He liked it. Thus began his recreational use of inhalants. He had good grades in school. And he was doing what he loved, he had always wanted to play soccer, and he was good; being the #6 leading scorer his junior year, and All State. And he was maintaining a 3.0 grade point average.
He arrived at college, with a full financial aid scholarship. He needed this. He was being raised by his father’s parents, as his dad was doing time for accidentally shooting his mother when Julio was 3 or 4. His inhalant usage manifested into an addiction. Julio threw it all away. He flunked out of college, and was kicked out of school, losing all his financial aid.
By the time he was 30, Julio had been arrested 15 or 20 times, he has lost count. This last time he was given an offer to try a new type of incarceration. A place where the inmates are called students and even though it’s a fully secure facility, he finds he feels at home there.
The Second Chance Center is a secure long-term residential rehab and transition program providing an alternative for the judiciary to traditional sentencing to jails and prisons, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was started by Rick Pendery, a drug rehab veteran, who had piloted a similar program in two Mexican prisons for over five years. “The intent of the program is to restore personal integrity and self-esteem in the inmates, and stem the rising rate of recidivism,” explained the CEO of the center, Rick Pendery.
“After arriving at Second Chance on September 7th of 2006,” Julio explains, “I tried to maintain optimism about being able to successfully function in a sober manner. But with so many failed attempts in the 30 years of my life haunting my memory, my excitement level was low. All at once I noticed the straightforward attitude of the staff and their warm confident receiving of myself that screamed nothing but success. I perceived a vibration that no matter what has occurred in the past or where I’d failed at in life, if I would just allow myself this opportunity, things would be different, and I would not fail!”
“It’s been a step by step process in getting to where I am now from where I was at the beginning.” Julio continues. “At times, the only assurance I had that I was still making progress and being productive was by taking my supervisors’ word that I would get through it. It’s never been an easy program to follow. The idea is simple. But actually doing it is not at all a piece if cake. It takes a lot of hard work and it’s this hard effort made which requires sincere dedication and discipline.”
A unique prison rehabilitation model inside the criminal justice system, The Second Chance Program specifically addresses common deficits found in offenders with substance abuse histories, such as cognitive behavioral skills, life skills, and the development of moral values and restoration of self-esteem, which have been found to have a positive impact on the development of pro-social behaviors and reduced recidivism. Delivered in a secure setting, this six to eight-month program also offers a long-range nutritional and sauna based detoxification program which uses no alternate drugs.
“As I continue to accomplish each step, I become more motivated to continue accomplishing what I set out to do.”, Julio says, “I am not willing to give up in exchange for the past failures or lifestyles. I am just thankful to my lord for his hand of mercy extending through the concept of this program, its staff and my fellow students to support and encourage my continued success here in the program as well as outside of the program in life. Its an ongoing success story that continues today.”
Julio also said, “I had not encountered relief from the whirlwind of recidivism within our justice system until Second Chance. I am no longer a part of it’s vicious cycle but have now become an entity and future pillar in our communities and state willing to assist others in breaking that cycle. My new attitude, outlook on life and actions give credibility to the scripture ‘You can tell a tree by the fruits it produces’. It is through the personally observable transformed life that will encourage others to seek out the same results seen in us. Because of the opportunity presented to me by the Second Chance Program to mature mentally, physically and spiritually as well as the sincere urging and encouragement to do so, we now embraced and continue to run with the Second Chance of having granted myself a Stay of Execution from my own, Self Imposed Death Sentence that I had once voluntarily handed down to myself because of my choice to use drugs.”
Jayden Adams
http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/drug-addiction-steals-the-life-of-a-young-man-the-second-chance-program-gives-him-his-life-back-120468.html
G.I. Joe, America’s daring, highly trained special mission force, faces a fearsome new threat from the evil Cobra organization. Dr. Mindbender has joined the DNA of Cobra fighters with that of the Earth’s most savage creatures, creating hybrid warriors with dangerously superior fighting skills. To fight these V-Troops, the G.I. Joe team develops advanced battle technology. It’s a thrilling new chapter in the battle to protect freedom and justice! Chief veterinarian at a national zoo, Link is a third-generation vet who grew up on a farm in northwestern Massachusetts. He joined the Navy after high school and became a SEAL, completing two tours of duty before hanging up his wet suit to attend the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where he earned a V.M.D. and Ph.D. He’s a hardened soldier, with the steel discipline of a SEAL and championship-winning martial arts skills. His skills as a vet, scientist and combat-trained soldier prove invaluable to the G.I. Joe team as they fight the venomization plans of COBRA Commander and Dr. Mindbender. Cobra Commander is the ruthless egomaniac who leads the evil forces of Cobra in their bid for world domination. Devoid of conscience or scruples, he will stop at nothing to achieve his terrible goals, going so far as to order the twisted genius DR. Mindbender to experiment with combining human and animal DNA to produce more savage warriors for his legions. He is a small-time hustler and card-cheat who has risen to greater power than was ever expected, but the same could be said for many infamous dictators of the past. Two-pack includes Dr. Link Talbot and Cobra Commander figures with multiple masks. Figures come with accessories and file cards. Each figure measures approximately 4″ tall.
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