Recent content by tef8

I trade from Watsonville and have worked on IT Projects in Monterey. Internet connectivity in the Monterey Bay area has issues on a regular basis. A trader would be better off over the hill in San Jose for both steady power and steady internet connections. That observation is from my direct...

Verify that they actually do clear through who they said they cleared through. More than one firm has not checked out when I have called the clearing firm to check! No I will not answer in this thread as to who - ask them their clearing firm and then call that clearing firm and verify. Verify...

also my box has q6600, 4 gigs ram, 3 sata 300gb harddrives (not raided - different os's for messing around on each), xfi mobo, 8800 pcie video card. cable internet, 3g as backup.

Currently trading on xp pro 32bit virtualized on ubuntu hardy 64bit (desktop version). For me the virtualized xp seems to run faster than when I had it on a physical machine. I like it because I can clone it, back it up and use that on another machine if I want. software used on my...

you can multi boot many windows os's with this tool: http://www.osloader.com/ up to 99 xps on the same machine. read the faq's on the site.

Corralitos area.... Any Santa Cruz area Traders? Equities, Options

Fuck no! I'm not happy. Have a nice f'n day. :)

leave the market? and miss the shorting opportunities? Naw. Just gotta keep yer peepers open and be alert.

Exactly, no reason to take on risk

MBT Genisis (either prop or through sogoelite) just two ideas, search brokers on this site. I went to IQ Feed for data after getting tired of IB probs, now seem to have to re-login to TWS repeatedly lately - definetly not cool. Sector leaders change, guess leading brokers do too.

Wow, this is a long thread and you guys haven't even gotten into the triple lava lamp system yet! Amazing.

well, wear some shoes anyway....ya never know what's on their floor in those kind of places.

My second pc is a laptop dual booting xp & ubuntu linux. Running TWS on there as well just to check it out - seems more responsive to me. No lags in charting, etc. Did have to mess with the java settings in ubuntu to have tws use sun java instead of the default java. All my machines are clean...

I use the triple lava lamp system myself.... No risk market! hehehe

fwiw... TWS with 5.0.10 java Qoutetracker with IQ Feed Rock solid stable with zero data/trade issues last two days with option trader (from tws) open allday and 7 tabs in TWS (using old fashioned 2.2GHz Athlon, 1 GHz ddr and 32 bit xp)