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I would think that a machine's ability to drive multiple monitors depends almost exclusively on the graphics card (or lack thereof)

Sadly im not really doing anything compute intensive for trading, just doing some light data mining. It is for my day job (seismic data processing for oil and gas). The Amazon stuff is pricey. $6.50/hour per machine. I have 35 spooled up right now and they will run a few days. It adds up...

Hey, it was plugged in...some of the time. :D Awesome story. If computer literacy had any bearing whatsoever on investing skill, there would be a lot more guys like this:

The NVME SSDs are 6x faster than SATA SSDs. An NVME SSD is nearly as fast as DDR4 memory. So in theory, if an application caches to SSD after the memory cache is full, an NVME SSD is as good as memory...Ignoring the higher latency of SSD. For my day job (seismic data processing) I buy retired...

I like 'em for front squats and deadlifts when I don't have access to a bar. More ergonomic than using a heavy dumbbell. But I have no interest in swinging them around! :D

For SPY, when daily volume increases, the price typically falls on that day (with a very good correlation). The question is: what will happen to the price tomorrow? If you make a scatter plot of yesterday’s change in daily volume versus tomorrow’s change in price, you will see a mild positive...

You mean, the green projection (erection?) didn’t convince you? (Seriously, thanks for the two Chinese etfs, I will investigate)

IMO is a real stock. WTF(C) is. Too bad BTFD, OTOH and FWIW are not.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trade-2022-surges-chinas-most-distressed-property-developers-near-bailout Now how the hell does a peon trade this? I play FXI, but I don't think that's good enough.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I had in mind. Do some data mining to estimate the reliability of predicting full-day volume from the historical N-minute volume, and Bob's your uncle. I'm feeling lazy right now, though! :D

I was once the president (volunteer) of a professional organization in Denver. Historically, the volunteer leadership had been almost exclusively boomer, gen-x, and older. Pretty good sense of duty, willingness to preserve the legacy of the organization, willingness to sacrifice personal glory...

From my office window in downtown Denver, I (unfortunately) look into a block of neighboring apartments. New guy, 30ish, moved in on the 5th floor. Today, I watched him smoke weed from a bong on his porch on 3 occasions over the 5.5 hours I was at my desk. He was "working from home", I guess?

Here's a link explaining the Parkinson method (I haven't read it yet) https://www.ivolatility.com/help/3.html#:~:text=The%20Parkinson%20number%2C%20or%20High,on%20a%20fixed%20time%20interval.

For instance, "my passion is watching college football every Saturday." For some people, this may produce real contentment, and I honestly salute them. But others may have a higher bar. :D

"Passion" is difficult to define for thoughtful people because they actually are trying to define the "purpose of their life". A work in progress for me.

David was depressed because he was visualizing his parents doing it at that age!

Fun fact: you can't place a stop loss order for crypto on Robinhood. :rolleyes:

I think you buy it for the merger potential. But suspect it will get bought out at a much lower share price than $20.

Heheh, if there is one thing I am most assuredly NOT...it is a professional trader! :D The annual subscription is probably more than my fun account.

I am using ORATS and asked Matt if they have an attribute I could use. The people with the good data feeds and databases are best equipped for this kind of thing. I scrape option prices once or twice a day but don't want to do it every few minutes.