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My story is very similar to yours except I'm probably a bit further down the line. So, I'll skip the preamble and just summarize key lessons I've learned thus far. It's not about the money per se, it's about the power and freedom financial independence will afford. You seem to realize this and...

You sure are.

No excuse. Quality is subjective. They don't want you to revert or stand pat because they need you to accept what, in many ways, amounts to a "worse" product. This way they can basically force you to accept changes which favor their business model. Thus they can remain competitive and grow...

It's the default. But, sometimes you can cut your tax burden when computing wash sales by using LIFO. Most brokers will accept your instructions as to how you want them to handle the reporting. https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/how-to-sell-stock-with-fifo-or-lifo.aspx...

No, no... you're just funny OT. You know... how you tell the story.

Copper futures? Full-time? Going well?

Lol, yeah... I think they call it creative destruction ;) Out of curiosity @easymon1... what instruments are you mostly trading? Or aren't you trading at all? From your post history it seems you're just here for the technology talk. P.S. I've worked/consulted for outfits a lot bigger than...

OMG, why?!?!? It's like talking to a brick wall. Fine, if you really want to save a few $$ you can get a raspberry pi 4b for less than $100 and use that instead :rolleyes:o_O

Oh for the love of God Dawn, don't conflate the percentages. Only ~30% of options are exercised because the other 70% expire worthless; not because people refrain from exercising them! :rolleyes: If the option is ITM at expiration, even by 1¢, it is a near certitude it will be assigned to the...

Lol, is this a job interview? For obvious reasons I'm reluctant to go into nitty gritty details. But, suffice it to say I read this (along with a boatload of other stuff) and then spent a large block of time building [more] software.

Not too too long... like 5 years. But I've been working with risk management software for nearly 20. And as I mentioned, obsession w/ computers since I was a kid.

In a nutshell... lots of bull put spreads.

People don't usually "play" if there's a lot of real money on the line. I treat my trading like a serious business. And, I think I've laid out my position rather clearly so take it for what it's worth. You and @countryBoy641 and whoever else are certainly free to do whatever you think is best...

Exactly, and the ultimate use case here is trading your bankroll (from charts or a model isn't that important). And if your bankroll is $10k... fine, I understand the desire to save $500. But beyond that it becomes a question of marginal utility (of your money, not the computer). Spending the...

Good catch... at least it's got AVX2 then, but still 1/2 the memory. I think my point still stands though. Spend the extra $$ for something a bit newer; it's an investment. Again, you wanna run legacy software or have a file server that's one thing. You want to hook up a few monitors and have...

Hate to break the news to you @countryBoy641... that CPU (and that Dell) is friggin' ancient bro. You should've sprung a few more bux for something newer (but I can't find the post where you claimed to pull the trigger so maybe you backed out of the deal, idk). This is nonsense because the...

Maybe just post less instead and make time for bathroom breaks?

Why bother buying them at all? Kidding... kidding; a little.

o_O They're easy to buy, that's for sure... look out when it comes time to sell them though.

This only makes sense if you want to become a used computer dealer. Otherwise, you're just being a cheapskate on the very tools you'll need for a competitive advantage. Penny wise and pound foolish IMHO.