Oh BTW, there is a quick solution that can help with these things. I mentioned it above. You run a simulation to see exactly how unusal your fluctuation was and usually you will discover not as unusual or extreme as you thought. So Zenking, did you run a simulation, for the game you were playing, your spread ect to determine just how unusual a $5k loss was over the hours played? Just eyeballing it, I would say close to but probably under 2 stand deviations. translation: Not that unusual.