Recent Content by jprad

  1. Syncing Laptop Time to Atomic Time

    Instructions from those who maintain the US time reference: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm If you're a real time geek then...
    Post by: jprad, Feb 7, 2012 in forum: Hardware

  2. For Intel P55 motherboards 8 Gig performance Ram after rebate $20

    Never heard of a "benchmark," eh? Current Raptors are SATA3 devices. Put a pair of SATA3 Raptors in RAID 0 and you going to get write speeds...
    Post by: jprad, Dec 1, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  3. For Intel P55 motherboards 8 Gig performance Ram after rebate $20

    Not even close. All I did was replace the motherboard, CPU and memory. Wiped and reinstalled the OS disc, good to go. Grand total was about...
    Post by: jprad, Dec 1, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  4. For Intel P55 motherboards 8 Gig performance Ram after rebate $20

    Never mind hallucinating, you're batshit crazy if you think an i7-2600K is only "marginally faster" than a 1155 socket CPU.
    Post by: jprad, Nov 30, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  5. For Intel P55 motherboards 8 Gig performance Ram after rebate $20

    The P55 is so yesterday. I'm running an i7-2600K w/1600 @ CAS8. Painless overclocking when I need it, intelligent power management scales it...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 30, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  6. For Intel P55 motherboards 8 Gig performance Ram after rebate $20

    P55??? CAS9??? Yeah, such a deal...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 27, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  7. local extrema detection

    You're right, your second paragraph had already touched on this. I stopped reading once you mentioned smoothing in your first, my apologies.
    Post by: jprad, Nov 15, 2011 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. KANE TRADING bookset for sale!

    Great analogy. However, it doesn't tell us if this system you're selling is actually a Ferrari or just a broken-down Yugo that you bought for...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 15, 2011 in forum: Trading

  9. local extrema detection

    Why stop with just the adjacent bars? If a given high/low is above/below the adjacent bars it is, by definition, a local extrema. If you...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 15, 2011 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Need advice for new trading laptop

    We're done, Sparky. I gave you a chance, and you passed so, move on and thank you for playing...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  11. Need advice for new trading laptop

    For those that think Sparky is da bomb, my regards. Otherwise, here's a site that takes their time to actually provide some quantitative...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  12. Need advice for new trading laptop

    Oh, so you're saying I'm wrong? That trading software pushes your system just as hard as an FPS game does? Prove it. Until then, I stand by...
    Post by: jprad, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  13. Need advice for new trading laptop

    It's a friggin' HP, you get what you pay for.
    Post by: jprad, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  14. Need advice for new trading laptop

    Well, there you go, you don't have a clue... The single largest source of heat in any modern desktop or laptop today is the GPU, not the CPU....
    Post by: jprad, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: Hardware

  15. KANE TRADING bookset for sale!

    What you paid is less important than their true value, which doesn't seem to be all that much since you "gave up" on trading.
    Post by: jprad, Nov 13, 2011 in forum: Trading