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I believe LTS comes out every 4 years and every two years the version is called Short Term Support... ? Oh, my bad. I don't know why I thought that. I started with 12.04 then upgraded to 16.04 and was waiting for 20.04 and now that I know 18 and all other even years is an LTS release year, I...

If you have less than bleeding edge hardware then Ubuntu or any other popular distro will give you a convenience, security, and performance boost. If you have hardware ISSUES, that's another thing. If your processor or RAM or HD are not too healthy then just changing operating systems will not...

Hah. I won't have to touch my retirement except possibly one small account that really isn't doing anything much, that I am stuck with until I take my regular union pension. GF is very enthusiastic about it. She has done a bit of swing trading, actually, not lost any money but so far not...

I have pretty much settled on a course of action. I am gonna start with an IB account and TWS on a new desktop machine dedicated to trading, with another one alongside for googling and newsfeeds and stuff. Probably three monitors for the trading machine. Running good ol dependable Ubuntu. I plan...

The BZ govt probably realized they were being played for chumps by dishonest or exploitive brokerages and gave them the boot. All started, I imagine, when some midlevel govt official realized that liberal brokerage rules could attract offshore brokerages and generate revenue. Same thing happened...

Remember though, a certain demographic of small customers is composed of customers who are small because they are young and only just beginning to make themselves a career path. Starting from the bottom. The same small trader in 20 years could some day be a not so small trader, after numerous...

If you have 4 family members or 4 good friends each with another $5k then maybe you could put $25k into play. Assuming they trust you to earn with their money. If nobody trusts you to do that, maybe you should be more cautious about trusting yourself, too. The average American who is working...

Is there a Linux port, or would I have to run it in a VM? I will definitely not be switching to windows. No way. Not happening. TWS seems to be the front runner so far for a trading platform.

<face palm> duh me. I thought, naaaaaah, he doesn't mean Individual Retirement Account, he means some fancy charting or scanning software or something. Okay thanks. I was overthinking again.

To first question, no. At least I don't think so. Is a stop order considered automated? I will be picking my stocks and entry/exit points myself, if that's what you mean. To second, equities only, at least for the first couple of years. I want to learn one thing before trying other things.

I guess he paid to have his book pop up first on amazon. I don't remember, exactly. Snappy to the point title? It had good reviews in spite of the soft push he gives to his paid forum/chatroom, courses, etc. The book was fairly readable for an utter newbie, myself. A bit more "grownup" than the...

The problem with W10 is not that it isn't enough like Linux. I don't care about having a linux-ish experience as far as the UI goes. I am okay with a desktop gui and I am okay with a terminal. I actually liked XP and W7, as far as the GUI went. The problem is that it is windows, and closed...

It is all about Ubuntu at my house. GF owns a winDOHs laptop as a job (senior analyst for Shell) requirement but leaves it at work unless she has to bring work home with her or is telecommuting. All the rest of our computers run Ubuntu. I really really really don't want to downgrade to the...