Others may have a different sensibilities, ambient noise, hearing ability, and so on, and that's fine. The 'Nine Hundred' that you refer to is...
If you want 45nm processor technology, you could consider an Intel E8400 (or E8500) processor, which actually runs most applications faster than...
bighog, I can imagine that people feel like Carl Lewis at the Special Olympics when talking to you. Run another lap for the crowd, this time...
Putting two drives into a RAID 1 mirror set is an excellent fault tolerance option. As a side effect, you get a slight performance increase for...
The D5400XS (Skulltrail) is a very nice mobo. This board would appeal to the (rare) trader who truly could benefit from dual CPU capability that...
I have used and tested SpeedFan, but I don't like it on a trading machine because it loads its drivers at each startup. I noticed conflicts...
The original post described an 'extreme gamers' objective...otherwise, I pretty much agree. The E8400 processor would be my first choice for...
Thanks for your comments and feedback. Skepticism is a good thing in a scientific sense. Keeping in mind that blind skepticism becomes ignorance...
Professional traders require maximum security/stability and typically have a box dedicated to trading. Gaming and other types of personal...
In addition, there is an excellent article by Brett Steenbarger: "Learning to Trade: The Psychology of Expertise"....
Buyer beware. The majority of popular trading literature probably would make a person dumber than when he started. If one had to choose between...
The reduced tick size disincents liquidity providers, and benefits liquidity takers. As a result, I expect the liquidity of the Bond and 5 Year...
Here is a configuration for a powerful and extremely quiet PC, similar to one I built recently. The design goal for this particular config was...
This fanless card works very well. Silent and high performing. The 7600GS GPU will take full advantage of Vista's capabilities when you are...
Thanks for your comment John, and yes, buying a Dell is a good decision for the majority of traders -- because of the ease of a pre-built machine...
Probably as long as you have worked for HP or IBM.
Power Trade Station For most traders, purchasing a Dell PC is a solid business decision. Dells are well designed, competitively priced, and...
from MNI: Nov 29 / 18:45 ET Bernanke: FOMC Must See if Risk Bal 'Shifted Materially' _ By Steven K. Beckner Market News...
As Green says, that only applies to "non-exchange members." Exchange members, on the other hand, are required by the IRS to pay SE tax....
Actually, 2009 is the probably right time to move to VISTA. For mission critical applications, like a trading workstation, in my experience it...
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