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At 11:40 AM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
>You don't need any "special" machine to run TS or to trade. Just get a machine with lots of RAM (1 Gig will generally do, but 2 is better), a pretty fast hard drive and a pretty fast processor (they don't have to be the latest and most expensive) and you will be fine. If you run multiple monitors, make sure you have a good graphics card and don't use the CPU for driving the monitors. You will not save any money be specing out a machine as any manufacturer produces machines to company specs in volume to reduce costs. Your one-of-a-kind will be more expensive.
Use Windows XP Pro, not Media Center.
I use Dell or Sony machines. Get a fast graphics card and a DVD writer for saving backups. Sony has better cooling and they seem to have fixed a lot of the memory leaks in XP and the drivers - they run for weeks without rebooting, unlike Dell. Sony has fixed configurations (not design-your-own, like Dell) but they include most everything you will need. They change models every few months and the few-months-old models are often sold at good discounts.
>There are ways to streamline and raise the efficiency of EasyLanguage code if you are running a lot of indicators. Change the function calls to straight code and change the indicators to update only when there is a price change and you will probably save about 30% or better on CPU overhead.
Not worth the trouble to change the functions to straight code. This makes little difference.
But DEFINITELY set the indicators to NOT "Update value intra-bar (tick by tick)". This will save a HUGE amount of CPU time, especially when trading the emini's of QQQQ, etc with lots of ticks per day.
Bob Fulks
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