Thank you, ZBZB. Surely the Windows OS is adequate.
The irony of those VPS solutions is their Passmark score. According to a decent rule of the thumb, nowadays a trading rig should provide a 10000 score for a no-compromise up-to-date PC (please note a Ryzen 3950X is substantially above that and...
From their FAQ:
"What will be the differences with my own desktop ?
Nothing.
You will have a Windows 2008 R2 operating system installed, with its official license. Windows 2008 R2 is the professional version of Windows 7. The look will feel will be a bit different, but that’s all."
Year 2020...
Or....if you trust the idea,
https://blog.0patch.com/2019/09/keeping-windows-7-and-windows-server.html
https://0patch.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/360002871999
You are messing up probabilities with trading actions that are focused on being right.
Take time to read and digest three books: 12 Habitudes of Highly Successful Traders and Overcoming 7 Deadly Sins of Trading. Then when you area ready... Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game.
Again, you are continuing to count losing vs winning trades; this is worthless while the issue is your bad trades, i.e. the ones when you are not following the rules. So journaling your trading process is a good step.
My 2 cents for improving your trading day:
1) don't be obsessed with winners %. This is detrimental to #2;
2) in order to get those '40 /50 ticks potential', you have to adopt the philosophy of "look after the downside and the upside will look after itself" (cit. by Tony Sycamore).. in other...
bone, actually TT is the main platform they are investing in, since X_trader will be discontinued. I have remarkable respect for the ADL project and the current evolution notwithstanding the issues; community is rich of ideas and well supported.
What I am criticizing above, is the need to use a...
Obviously this does not mean that TT ADL is not an interesting and stimulating module for other reasons. However the Alert Manager features provided with TT basic should be better tuned and improved with some basic functionalities too, without the need of ADL.
Hello @patrickrooney. Thank you for your feedback on STD bands o VWAP. We will see.
About the alert manager, one year ago I wrote on page 1:
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/the-end-of-an-era-x_traders-final-sunset.324714/#post-4725492
And look at the reply I got: check the smartphone...
We are one year later, not only 2019 but right after one year...
Meanwhile you are planning to distribute TT also to Goldman Sachs:
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/trading-technologies-contracts-with-goldman-sachs-for-global-distribution-of-the-tt-platform.335855/
Will those traders get...