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The Hectic Glow 

An awesome band that makes life-chaging music. They went on tour with John Green when he was talking about his book "The Fault in Our Stars". But you probably haven't heard of them, they're SUPER underground.
I love the song"Pizza Delivery Guy" by the Hectic Glow, doesn't it make you want to cure cancer?
The Hectic Glow by PolaroidNerd99 November 28, 2011

🛎️ The Hector Salamanca Effect Noun (Trading Psychology)

The uncontrollable, rapid, and panicked smashing of the "Buy" or "Sell" button by a day trader whose position is moving violently against them. Characterized by aggressive eye contact with the screen, rising blood pressure, and a total breakdown of logical risk management.

The Hector Salamanca Effect refers to "revenge trading" or aggressively averaging down on a losing position out of pure spite, rage, and a refusal to accept a loss—ultimately blowing up your account.

The Mechanism
1. The Trigger: The trader enters a scalp on a highly volatile asset (like the Nasdaq).
2. The Threat: The market immediately drops 30 points against the position.
3. The Response: Instead of cutting the loss, the trader's brain panics. They begin rapidly clicking the mouse to add more contracts, attempting to average down and "force" a bounce.
4. The Climax: The contract size balloons to maximum capacity within seconds.
5. The Result: The account suffers a catastrophic explosion ( hector blows himself up).

Now, whenever you feel your finger twitching to add a contract too fast, you just have to remind yourself: Don't be Hector.
"If you don't cut your losses early, you risk giving into" 🛎️ The Hector Salamanca Effect noun (trading psychology) and blowing up your portfolio out of pure spite.

Hector the erector 

A person that erects alot.........
Like me
Hector the erector by asses March 26, 2005

Hector the Erector 

A guy named Hector who can a get a girl's clit erect within a 500 foot radius.
Guy: Damn that Hector the erector. He gets all the girls.Must be the tongue rolling thing. But Atleast, I got you right babe.

Girl(bitting her teeth): Wait for me Hector!

Hector The Time Travelling Midget 

A man from the year 2098 who was much different than the rest of the people at that time, for he was only 3' tall. Everyone else in the world was at the shortest about 5' 2". This troubled Hector cause he was always picked on and people would throw him around much like a football. It being the year 2098, time travel had already been invented about 23 years ago. Hector thought about using time travel to change history so that there would be more short people like him. After acquiring the means to travel through time (which cost him $18.75 on Ebay), Hector travelled back in time many times, but was always thwarted in his attempt to make more short people. After many attempts Hector finally travelled back to the Primordial Soup. The goo that started all life sat before him. Sitting and pondering what to do to change history, Hector came up with the grandest of schemes. "Ah ha!", said Hector. "I will contaminate this ooze with my own ooze.", Hector shouted with glee. After an intense one and a half minutes of self gratification (Everything is shorter for midgets), he dumped his load into the soup causing a mass fusion of his "little" genes into the normal genes. After many eons of Evolution, thanks to Hector's deeds, we have been blessed with many small creatures. This is how the Pterodactyl became the chicken. Its how the shark became the goldfish. Its also how we got actors like Verne Troyer. No one knows what happened to Hector. My thoughts are that since he fucked with the timeline he never came to be. Poor, poor Hector. All this to make a friend and he never even existed. The moral of the story, I guess, is to not throw hair dryers into the bathtub.
Dude 1: "Man I hate that show Little People Big World. Who the hell came up with that shit?"

Dude 2: "Its all made possible because of Hector The Time Travelling Midget."

Dude 1: "Damn you Hector, damn you."

Hector the collector

Hector the collectors are usually gay and get no women at all. The spend their days eating dick and acting like faggots. They kiss boys and are most likely unsuccessful in everything. They also like hairy buttholes and fat cocks and suck them 24/7
Hector the collectors suck dick
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