Recent content by RoscoeInTexas

I usually try to change the topic but if pressed I say something like "I run a small private fund". It's weird: I am happy that I am a trader but the questions that statement elicits range from polite interest all the way to disbelief and the strangest of questions and comments. Because I really...

Probably some form of FDIC insurance but I don't know what it would take to make that happen. I don't hold out much hope of being made whole - the liquidator will probably soak up most of everything that is left at this point. It gutted me totally, still trying to catch up all these years later...

I might add that events like PFG stealing my account a few years back was pretty rough emotionally. (Still waiting for the last of that account, the liquidator is dragging it out as long as possible to maximize his fee.) The effect of that gutted me and it is still having an effect all these...

Leaving aside the preoccupation with sex for a moment, trading has given me considerable freedom to travel and live in interesting places. OTOH it has made it hard to have 'friends from work' because trading is such a solitary occupation. I have maybe 2 or 3 people with whom I can talk trading...

At this stage it has stripped away all the BS from my life and now the market is everything. It has cost me a dead-end marriage which was no loss anyway. It scares me silly some days and makes me very happy on others. Very few people have any idea what it is that I do and it is better that way.

Heh, thanks :) There are a lot of companies that advertise 'support' and the ones that I have had anything to do with to date are pretty much like you describe - pimply-faced urchins with no actual clue apart from 'reinstall windows and buy new hardware', no actual diagnostics - saw that happen...

Thanks, good to know. What is their angle - upselling? How do I find a good support service? All I can think of is to ask around like this.

The client is a lady who is great at graphics but with no interest in learning about anything else. Anybody use the Geek Squad from BestBuy?

Any recommendations for a good all-round IT support service in Houston TX? Client is a single work-from-home user doing mainly graphics work (Photoshop) need support from time to time, modem, router, software support.

I would like to have a few charts permanently displayed on my Win 7 desktop, is that possible any more given the demise of desktop widgets? I have data access, all I want is some means of having small charts there all the time. Maybe along the lines of sparkcharts albeit a bit bigger would be...

Ah, it's just more whiny Democrat noises - "We were supposed to win and we are going to stamp our feet until we get what we want" kind of approach. Personally I am delighted with President Trump who is actually doing what he said he would do as opposed to his worthless predecessor.