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Now, now... Let's not get testy. :) Excuse me for being a little excited about getting my new system. I'm sure y'all know the feeling. In any event, I'll try to quit blabbing about my new Dell and sorry for hijacking your thread. :p

Well, even through Dell Outlet Store, it's 100% returnable. But I just called and checked. My order is processing and scheduled to be shipped on Wednesday, April 30. I could have cancelled but I decided I'm going to just go ahead and take delivery. I can check it out for a couple weeks and make...

Hmmm... I'm sorta having second thoughts about the refurb Dell T3400 Precision Workstation I've ordered over the weekend. Why? Because it cost almost twice the amount of the machine you quoted above. But I did get some extra horsepower with the added cost. Mine is configured with an QX9650...

Yeah, was me but I'm sure more deals will show up. Just amazing to me that I got a system like this for the cost of the chip itself. Like to see those guys in that DIY Q6600 based custom build thread build a system that beats this for the price. I know its overkill, but I won't need to be...

Already snagged it :D

Well, I was looking at their base units and seen they dual core and 1GB ram for around $550 and Quad core CPU and 2 GB of RAM for around right around $719. Those seem like excellent prices for a trading rig. Some even had dual video cards. But here's what amazes me. I found a Dell T3400 in...

There's a couple of these with an Intel Core®2 Extreme QX9650 (3.00GHz/1333MHz/12MB L2). They also come with a 525W PSU. But they're not cheap, costing over a thousand dollars. :eek: Overkill for a trading rig?

My Dell only has one PCI-Express 16x slot in it, yet I have six monitors connected. Works perfect. But if I were buying a new PC, the extra PCI-Express 16x slot would be high on my list of requirements.

Well my hardware will certainly support it. So I certainly can choose my OS. My question is, (since I asked here on ET) is anybody who's trading using it and if so, what are their experiences/opinions. I didn't start this thread to get all technical about why 32 bit may be better or why this...

Just about everything I've read says stay with XP Pro as your OS if you're a trader. But I'm just wondering if anyone is using the 64 bit version? Sounds like it could be the best of both worlds but then again, I'm concerned it might be a problem with some software. Thoughts and experiences...

I think building a custom PC is certainly a worthwhile endeavor, if you're a hard-core gamer. For trading I just don't see the need for it. Unless you're going to be doing something really computer intensive, it doesn't make much sense to me. Even so, the PCs you can buy now are plenty powerful...

Well I reckon that was a long explanation and description I wrote just to ask a simple question. But I sort of wanted to drive home how the "little guy" can now plan and build a portfolio if he would like to try his hand at managing money and investing in equities. With that said, here's another...

It use to be that if you had $50K or less to invest and wanted stock market exposure, you were better off buying an ETF or Mutual Fund. Why? Because the commissions to assemble a diversified portfolio of equities would eat up a significant portion of your investment capital. But with discount...

Like that prior outage, the losses customers suffered due to this outage today is really unfortunate. But online trading has its perils and unfortunate circumstances will occur. What's inexcusable though, is that now that IB has restored data and fixed the issue that caused this problem today...

Logged in and had no data this afternoon. But logged in with out any problem, Had the red alert message and it indicated data problems for some customers. Sure enough I had no data. But I left my TWS open and never logged out. I'm now getting Stocks. ETF's and Futures. No backfill though for QT.

I'm back up but backfills from IB for QT are not working

I'm in Detroit, all back up and running; stock, etfs, futures, etc.

stocks now back up here

I thought IB use to allow an order to be cancelled if another triggers but now I don't see this available for the order I currently have submitted. I currently have a sell limit order above the market and I want to put a stop order in but I don't see how I can configure the stop to cancel if my...

Seems like to some degree, we all are making predictions when we place a trade. How can you be a "trader" of the markets without making predictions and basing trades off of them? We form an opinion based on our interpretation of current market levels/sentiment and then "predict" which way the...