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I have an almost identical setup, with IB as a broker, ZeroLine Trader for trade execution, but I use thinkorswim instead of TradeStation for charting as TOS was the package that I first started trading with and I still really like how their charting is put together. For someone interested in...

Yes well it worked out pretty nicely! As a news trader I've been compiling data about how various regular news items affecting a futures contract correlate with subsequent news items on that contract, e.g. how Tuesday's API Crude Oil/Gasoline/Distillate Inventories report correlates with the...

Yesterday I thought I'd watch the 2 year auction, it was a bust with a low bid/coverage of 2.75 vs 3.19 prior with a 3 month average of 2.58. ZT had been trading at the top of its range and dropped 26 ticks, while ZF followed closely, dropping 80 ticks, both moves taking about an hour. Using...

I'm not sure how many benefits a MacBook trader would get from these technologies. They're nice to have of course, but not really worth waiting for from a trading machine perspective.

I sometimes run thinkorswim with as many as 80 charts on 1m bars and it uses something like 10% of my CPU and a few hundred MB of memory on my laptop. I don't see how you'd need more than a $200 desktop running XP for basic charts and browsing. (Note I don't normally trade that way, I just...

With a digital input like DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort, there should be zero degradation of image when you rotate to portrait mode, assuming you've set the computer to run display the screen in its native portrait resolution (e.g. 1200x1920 for a 1920x1200 widescreen monitor on its side).

I've been using a MacBook Pro for the past 6 months and I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows. I worked heavily with Windows and various flavours of Unix over the years from AIX and Solaris to Linux and BSD, and simply put OS X gives me the power and stability of Unix with the features and...

Really? That's my CL setup, I personally can't see how anyone needs a full 19+" monitor to view a single chart, especially in the middle of a trade when they presumably don't have 100 studies on the screen - but to each their own. One of the nice things about working for yourself is that...

This is precisely the setup I would use if I were to build a trading desktop, albeit with 30" 2560x1600 monitors. I've tried over-under setups before but I like having my current positions and watchlist *directly* in front of my face , which is smack in the middle of the bezels in such a setup...

I found that by keeping track of trades and trying a wide variety of strategies I was able to come up with what (for me) has been a winning plan. Some of the things I weeded out because I just couldn't figure out how to make them work: 1. intraday scalping 2. after-market earnings trades...

How about setting up your trading offshore in the Turks and Caicos? One of Toronto's biggest tax firms advertises this service although I don't know the particulars, clearly any money you withdrew for personal use would be taxed as income by CRA but at least you could avoid corporate income tax...

The strength of Canada's economy comes from being a net exporter of goods. Our largest trading partner (the USA) is on the ropes economically, with no real recovery in sight despite what the DOW reads. Worldwide demand for our products is similarly nowhere. I just don't see it, not in...

My definition of strategy is probably different from the OPs, in that I'm a purely discretionary trader who doesn't believe in anything but the most fundamental TA, but I have a trading plan in terms of what instruments I trade, when I trade them, position sizes, maximum losses etc. I always...

The simple truth is for the majority of users, there's no reason to upgrade from XP, I don't know of a single consumer application or game that doesn't run as well or better on XP than Vista or 7. On top of that Office 2007, which I personally think was an excellent effort, meets strong...

I'm a momentum/news trader of primarily equities and index futures, using news events like earnings and regular economic reports to take long and short positions on individual stocks and the ES (sometimes the NQ and rarely the YM). While I've been successful with this so far, I'm trying to...

I use thinkorswim for charting, it's a Java application and runs on pretty much anything although it's only officially supported on OS X and Windows. The free paper trading account has a 20 minute feed delay which may be adequate for your purposes, if not you can do what I did and move $5k worth...

Something like this?

TWS is very lightweight unlike NinjaTrader so you should have no problems at all running it on even a modest netbook.

I used to run NinjaTrader and TWS in VMWare while running thinkorswim in OS X for charting. It works fine but only if you don't try to integrate the Windows apps into the OS X UI ("Unity" mode) which would cause problems with windows not being drawn correctly. I now run TWS, thinkorswim and...

Agreed, for a trading OS, 7 does not offer anything over XP as far as I can tell.