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I'm trading based on a system adapted from a person who traded it for a living. I've made relatively minor tweaks along the years and still continue to explore ways it can be enhanced. The system survived almost intact for about a decade now. I think I have what it takes to continue tweaking...

Thanks bootstrap. That's good advice. I've created a map of everything that I'll be doing including trading and non-trading related. Focusing on balanced and healthy living to try and keep things in perspective, take breathers etc.

lojze, I trade the movers of the day either long or short. how does this info help you reply to the question in the OP?

Thanks everyone for your comments. I trade equities only. Considering adding other less correlated instruments when I get a chance to work on that. - edited for typo.

I've recently decided to switch to trading full time. I've been day trading since late 2004, profitable since early 2006 and making decent money for just under a year now. I believe I'm ok on: profitability consistency, account capitalization and extra savings side of things but was curious if...

Yes the other contender was XPS1330 but you're right the screen size was the main issue. I'm not a Mac fanboy who just loves everything Apple. This is going to be my first Mac and I'm keeping the PC Laptop as backup.

No Vista for me for another year at least. Too many issues with drivers, running games etc. Besides I get all the eye candy I can handle with the OS X :-) Yep, the price wasn't a factor which is why I said no mainstream laptop PC machine out there today has the kind of specs the MBP has...

and how much for the graphics card upgrade, lower weight and dual OS's capability? ;-)

I'm getting it for both. Would like to use OS X but also realize I'll need Win for trading + gaming. In any case is there a Dell with these specs: 2.4GHz Santa Rosa Nvidia 8600GT + 256Mb (or equivalent ATI) 15" wide screen LED 1" thick 5.4 lbs I think Dell makes awesome laptops, had...

Thanks. The MBP is being delivered next week. Will be testing it out. I can't think of any reason why it won't work either.

Hi all, I'm considering buying a new laptop and like the screen size and form factor of the new Macbook Pro. I've never tried using Windows on those machines (I'm a PC user) and was wondering if anyone has experience running QCharts and/or IB's TWS on a Win XP / Vista installed on an Intel based...

dac8555 - read the entire thread. qll - ditto.

You might want to approach Citibank for that.

There are various options in between opening an offshore account thru mail and being a resident. Singapore is positioning itself as a money management centre for the region. There are a lot of wealthy Indonesian (3rd Country), Thai, Malaysians etc. who bank in Singapore in these types of...

No, you don't need to be a Singapore resident.

You are correct it is a USD account in a foreign country. It meets my needs since with zero cost to transfer money out from IB to my account and paying my US$ expenses with the US$ credit card then I completely avoid the issue I had with currency conversions and fees associated with charging...

Thanks for the reply. I was referring to short term trading profits. Both trading and investments are done in the same IB account now. It's useful from a buying power perspective but makes reports/analysis and statements more complicated. I wonder if it is possible to somehow...

Would be interested to hear people's opinion on whether they recommend taking excess profits out of the account, say on a monthly basis, for the purpose of: 1. Locking it out of trading and into some risk free instrument or really long term investment 2. Help focus on generating steady...

Just an update if anyone is interested. I ended up opening a bank account with Citibank International Personal Banking in Singapore. Transferring money from IB resulted in no fees on either side. They also provide a USD credit card and the account is multi-currency so I can keep SGD in there as...

Hi Mark, thanks for the reply. I did indeed receive completely irrelevant information at Citibank, from three different officers. Before insisting to speak to someone from the IPB department. They tried pushing me all sorts of account types without even listening to what I needed. But, I went...