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Thanks for the reply. Vista and 6 monitors might be more of a problem (than with XP) because of potential hardware conflicts between Vista and multiple video cards? I've never used ATI cards but after a quick look it seemed multi-monitor was not a focus for them. I 'built' a quick T3400 on...

It gotta get a new trading computer, and have always bought from Dell, so I am now considering the Dell Studio XPS 435 (i7-920 CPU with 6MB tri-channel DDR3 memory). I have stuck with XP until now, but figure it is time to (reluctantly) move to Vista Premium, 64 bit (with the Windows 7 upgrade...

If you use BookTrader, I'm almost certain you could set up a Button to place both entry and stop loss orders

It is now well into the fourth week of missing QQQQ bid/ask size data in IB's Booktrader. For the first time today Customer support said maybe there is a problem. They may not believe me, but doesn't this scrambled, non-sequential data in IB's Totalview say there definitey IS a problem...

For over three weeks now, there has been missing bid-size/ask-size data for the QQQQ in BookTrader. I can see roughly 50 lines in BookTrader, and prior to three weeks ago there would be large bid or ask sizes displaying on every line. Now, there are gaps in bid/ask sizes scattered throughout...

I unsubscribed from V&F mid-Sept. At least with the QQQQ, I did not find it to be a leading indicator - by the time it was bullish the Q's had already made the short term move up and was ready to retrace. In a way it was like volume, confirming moves that already occurred. Maybe for smaller...

I've been using the Nasdaq Velocity and Forces Indicator for a few days now, primarily to trade the QQQQ. I can't say it has helped. As opposed to consistently indicating buying or selling interest (pressure) in advance of that pressure resulting in actual buying or selling, I'm finding a...

Chuck, if you are a US equities trader, and you wanted to know something simple like when one of your favorite stocks was within .5% of its 50 day moving average, how would eSignal help you with that? As far as I know, you'd have to run the appropriate EFS in a chart which could then give...

Chuck, I gotta agree with Edge about the multi-threading. Until you upgrade the 'old foundation', its no use improving the structure above it. But the second priority after that would be implimenting quote sheet formulas (the TradeStation equivalent of RadarScreen). During the 7.xx release...

My eSignal Time & Sales would very often lock up. Then I started using QuoteTracker (with eSignal feed) together with eSignal. Both the eSignal and QT Time & Sales would match during slowish trading, but as soon as things picked up the QT T&S would be clearly faster than eSignals T&S, even with...

Hi Gnome, My understanding is that you have to pay for a second eSignal subscription if you want to run eSignal charts on two computers simultaneously. But if you know of a way to send eSignal data from one computer to another, I would be very interested to hear how it is done. Thanks davez

Thanks again for your reply, Jack I will do that... run two QT T&S windows side by side, one fed by eSignal data, the other by IB data. Then compare them both for 'missing' trades, and updating speed. I trade equities, mostly the QQQQ and yes, BT and T&S go wild during an FOMC or similar...

I have one computer with HT (hyper-threading) for trading only, and a second newer computer (with dual-core CPU ) for everything else. Can you even buy a computer today that, if not dual-core, at least has an HT processor? HT has been around for five years (maybe more?). But despite that...

That was an interesting / informative reply, Jack, thanks. So, in IB's Booktrader, I'm not seeing all the quotes and trades but only samples?? I had assumed that, knowing the number of customers, what they are trading, and associated average daily volumes, they would size servers accordingly...

I've have asked IB for real time Time & Sales a dozen times this year, and as many times the two years before that. What amazes me, is that T&S was a basic tool so many years ago. But IB completely ignored it. Can somebody tell me, why did IB invest thousands (more?) of man hours developing...

I also use IB. Their tech support used to be very helpful with questions on using TWS. Now if its not an installation problem, they transfer you to Customer Service. Three or four times in the last month, customer service has then transferred me right back to tech support. I gave up a few...

If you are trading US equities, I would definitely NOT recommend eSignal (even though I'm an eSignal user). They were far behind TradeStation years ago during the eSignal 7.x versions. Then just last week eSignal released a new 10.0 version that still does not include any of the missing features...

Some good replies. I do not often access large files or databases, so it is sounding like raid 0 might not make a noticeable speed difference. Probably TC2000 (end-of-day) is the largest program I use, and once it loads I think its current data sits in memory. Furthermore it seems there is...

I just bought a computer (Dell XPS 410) which came with a RAID 1 hard drive setup. But I don't have 'mission critical' data that must be backed up so I'm trying to decide whether to change to RAID 0 or no raid. The theory I've read says RAID 0 will provide faster reading and writing from/to...

The basic video card with the Dell XPS 410 is nVidia's 7300LE. I assume this has a 1440 x 900 resolution choice - does anyone know for sure? I'm thinking of buying a Samsung 940MW 19" wide screen LCD TV with DVI & VGA inputs to also use as a computer monitor, but none of my current video cards...