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Unless you plan on using the API and trading hundreds of symbols at a time, you current setup is more than adequate. Even if you intend to do that your current setup is probably fine..... I've got a Core2Quad Q6600 as well, (mine is overclocked to 3.3GHz). Works really awesome. - mnx

sure. it's short for EDGX book. (as in direct edge ecn) - mnx

are you really gonna believe anything that this guy says? jk LOL anyways, treat it like any other interview like the guy above said... have you had other interviews before? This one while it might be a little different it's not that big a deal.... It's not like your interviewing at...

1) they're not going to teach you much... lol some typical strategies you might hear something about are credit trading or trading hidden liquidity pools... 2) of course. you'll have to be there a little while and prove yourself a little... 3) yes it's true. - mnx

What froze for 10 minutes? All your quotes? I saw some sticky ARB quotes during that time but that was about it... There are several different quote feeds a firm can use... comstock and activ are 2 of them, I'm sure that could make a big difference... Also not every firm using sterling is...

the firm I'm with uses sterling and their "nyse" route is Merryl Lynch... another firm I know has nyfix set as their NYSE option... So just because it says "NYSE" as an option doesn't mean they own a seat / have a direct route etc... - mnx

that depends on whether you want a profit split or not.

yeah i wonder if it was bad power or something ( to cook all those PSU's).. as for the hard drives, who knows... - mnx

i thought your earlier comment was a joke. I thought you had a lot of credibility until now... lol I'll just pretend you didn't say that. fyi, the trading office I worked at had all dells. every single machine in that office (well maybe not every, but at least 3/4's had its power supply...

or you could use windows task manager. press CRTL + ALT + delete click on the networking tab click on View -> Select Columns Check on Bytes Sent and Bytes Received Leave task manager open to monitor your network traffic. - mnx

You might want to check out Tuco. http://www.tuco.com/ I don't trade with them but I know of a couple guys that do. They offer Sterling Trader Pro and HydraTrade... - mnx

There are tons firms that offer that. Would you like low comissions and a profit split or higher commissions and get to keep 100%? - mnx

I've got a raptor... can't wait until flash drives become more mature and widely available though... - mnx

does it have to be trading related? Nero for encoding video/burning dvd's uses all 4 cores... Except my hdd is too slow to keep up with it now that I have a quad.... - mnx

There is a saying... Don't confuse brains with a bull market. ;) But that said, if you are new to trading and are up this year then I'd say you're doing well (no matter the %age).. - mnx

why don't you send me a PM next time? lol

yeah. when are those instutional "traders" going to learn to stop using market orders... lol

I like coretemp, but it only gives you the voltage and core temperature of your cpu... - mnx

If you're a scalper would the 25ms response time on the Planar make a difference? (vs. 4-5ms on a TN panel)? I figured it would when I was buying monitors, but now I'm wondering if I bought monitors look at the wrong criteria... lol oh well. still love my samsungs... - mnx

I've got a SyncMaster 204B. Had it for about a year... Enjoyed it thoroughly. When I started trading from home nn October, I added a SyncMaster 245BW to the mix. The work pretty well side by side (similar vertical dimensions and identical vertical resolutions). I'm really glad I got the...