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As I started out with a similar question, I'll summarize what I've learned from the good folks here. I beleive the nVidia NVS 285 PCIe x16 card will do the trick. It seems the DMS-59 splitter cable is available for either two DVI or two VGA monitors. As the cable's DVI ends have the extra...

If one buys a computer direct from Dell (an XPS 410), I think they insist on providing some video card. So one option is to get the cheapest card they provide, scrap it, and replace with an NVS card. But there must be some newer non-NVS nVidia cards that have dual DVI &/or AGP output that Dell...

Good point Mokwit. I've always got quick and complete replies to question I've posted on the Matrox forum. It sounds like nVidia, or say PNY, don't have the same thing? Do other graphics chip makers besides nVidia make the chip only and let others assemble them on cards?

Thanks for the reply Gnome. Agreed, if nobody makes cards for these slots then the 'savings' isn't very real. I think AGP slots were for graphics cards only, with PCIe being the improved evolution of AGP. But with 3 PCIe slots in the Dell XPS 410, I guess the PCIe x1, x4 or x8 must be...

Yikes, I was at 32 bit color and just now dropped it to 24 bit with no apparent difference. I'll change to 16 bit if all goes well tomorrow. I've always wondered if the number of windows open affected video memory requirements - but apparently not. I knew that AGP was better than PCI and...

Thanks for the replies. Although my AGP and PCI Matrox cards have been trouble free, I'll be giving nVidia a try in my next computer. I've read that before Gnome, that 8MB / port is plenty for trading applications. Why is that I wonder? In the stock I am trading, I overlap charts of 5...

I meant Real Time Time & Sales. (I am aware of historical T&S off the charts).

I agree 100%. IB's core purpose is trade execution and related data (quotes), not charting. I can't imagine an active trader wouldn't already have a charting program. In my opinion, a tool much closer to IB's providing of trade data is Time & Sales. Why the relatively simple T&S tool wasn't...

I'm planning on getting a new computer that almost certainly with have PCIe slot(s). I've been a satisfied Matrox user for years but the Matrox choices for PCIe slots seem limited (G450MMS dual or quad, or P650) which I think would be noisier (due to the fan) and more expensive (since less...

As I understand it, the majority of new customers (and probably some existing customers) want access to newer or more leveraged markets. Hence to play the "numbers game" most of the eSignal features in the last year have been for options, futures, forex and foreign equity market traders. I...

eSignal EFS forum support is great and livechat support for the most part is also good. But eSignal support can't do anything about their management's apparent decision to give up on trying to catch up with TradeStation's tools for US equity traders. (Please eSignal, tell me you don't know...

Caroch, what charting / trading software are you using now? It would make a Radarscreen-like program much cheaper if you could use your existing data feed(s). I used StockWatch Pro (with eSignal feed) a year ago, but I thought their customer support was very slow and they just refused to fix...

While trading the QQQQ's in the last week, IB's BookTrader has seemed to move less smoothly than usual (maybe that's the market), but there has clearly been a lag in the unrealized P&L value keeping up. And in BookTrader recently I've seen more old quotes left behind (still displaying) as the...

That does not answer my question at all! All my intraday cursor box 'OK's have changed to 'Trying' The system status link won't open, and the Customer Support link won't work. The Data Mgr says system performing normally. Have they had a server crash?

What's happening with the eSignal system today?

Paul, No reason to be torn. If you believe their large clients are the majority of their revenue, and that they can/will continue to please the large clients, then own the stock. If you also believe the large clients have different needs than you (a smaller client I assume) and that...

You are exactly right about that Mogul - so many times multiple morning alerts crash the program. I finally unchecked the 'Pop Up Alert' box - that helps. Instead I watch the Ticker Alert window (which they won't color so you know if it was a high or low alert), but at least the program...

Hi Matt, I'm not sure who your question was directed to, but here's my answer. What I want from eSignal is a way to 'view' many stocks, with alerts when my setup conditions are met (not just simple price alerts). What eSignal needs is programmable condition columns (with alerts) in their...

Like so many others have mentioned, I've spent many, many hours developing eSignal layouts and efs's, so I am very reluctant to scrap all that to start with TradeStation. Perhaps I'd go thru the learning curve with TradeStation, only to find a dozen features I use and like in eSignal that...

Agreed generally that eSignal data feed is ok, except for one glaring exception. They don't have the ability to end data input to 60 minute bars at the end of the regular market day (4:00 pm est). Instead, the first 30 minutes of after market data is included in the final 60 minute bar...