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Another option, in addition to an extra stock or futures broker to back up your primary account, is to consider an OTC product such as a CFD or speadbet. Typically, margin requirements are 5 % for US, European and Asian stocks, and 3% for global indexes. Spreads depend on the broker, but are...

Howzit Vas I think Nitro and Peter are spot on. If you do not yet have a record of consistent profitability (who does when they're starting ?!) and particularly if you are trading for intra-day moves, it is great advise to start on paper (even just for a few months), then trade the SPY or...

Howzit SP You will hear lots of things about qcharts. Great front end but shitty data reliability at times. I used to use qcharts but server connection problems occurred far too frequently. At first I thought it might be my geography, but it seems many US customers also complain of...

swinger If you get a relatively new card, either brand new or used, it should not be a problem. One way to check is to consult the windows 2000 hardware list, which is located either on the CD or you can get it from microsoft's web site. [ That said, I have experienced a card that would work...

Swinger vhehn's card will definitely work - plus you'll have the option for a fourth monitor. Otherwise, any pci (even used $2) card "should" work to add a third monitor, depending on your OS. Win98 will take almost anything, 2000 and XP cause they're newer can sometimes be a little pickier...

Howzit Sterling I too have not used a Matrox, so cannot comment directly, but most people have reasonable/good things to say about their cards. At the moment I am using some (oldish) dual head Appians in one of my systems to run quite a few monitors, and have not had any major problems...

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Luk122, As gnome said it depends on what you want to do, ie how many monitors you want to run and also how much you are prepared to spend. Costs range from cheap, if you are happy to use old PCI cards and fill your slots, or you can purchase multi-head cards from Matrox, Appian or any other...