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I beat you ;-)
Full-time private daytrader for the last 5+ years,
a 5+ year old Dell 233 MHz PentiumII with 96 Meg RAM, running on Windows95
(ninety-five), single 17" monitor, 56K dial-up connection, running RealTick
Version 6.0 and trading through a (yikes!) browser-based broker!!
;-))
Best regards & happy holidays to all,
Levent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Essan Soobratty" <trader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 10:39 PM
Subject: [RT] renamed: Trading PC, OS's etc
> With all due respect to those who are enamoured with the their latest
> super-duper pc's with blinding RAM speeds and deafening processors. I am
a
> full time professional trader. I trade short (intra-day), medium and long
> term. I run esignal 7.1, metastock pro, excel, leoweb, browser and email
> simultaneously. In the background I have zonealarm in addition to the
usual
> junk that came with the pc.
>
> And wait for it....
>
> I am using my January 1998 NEC 233 PII. I have upgraded to win98SE. I
have
> upgraded to 192meg of ram from 64 and I have 4 monitors connected to an
> Appian card. I run my machine almost 24hrs, 5 days a week. Sure,
sometimes
> I get the blue screen of death but compared to what can usually go wrong
> during the average trading day....what's the big deal?
>
> My point?
>
> The PC or what ever tools you use to trade has very little bearing on the
> end result. Unless of course you insist on running video games or
streaming
> live video from your favorite porn site. Then, of course, you should have
a
> good pc. <g>
>
> I realise my comments will upset many. If you must flame me in response;
> please do so privately to avoid cluttering this excellent RT group.
>
> Enjoy the holidays,
>
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