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NT is free, TS is free with broker, Sierra is small monthly subscription. The difference is that Multicharts is sold at a premium price for a one off payment. Yet if TSSupport goes bust, the software is useless, if TSSupport servers have DDOS attack the software is useless. It's a crisis waiting...

Yasha, checkout the www.atrader.org website also. I'm not even a user yet, but will be when the session handling is implemented in a couple of weeks - it uses IB or DTN. Also make sure you check out the reviews here for MC. When last I checked it skipped empty periods/bars. Since then the DRM...

Though I have a Quad Core, I agree with Mr. J unless your software is an unusual resource hog and/or you do massively intense, complex back testing. Also you don't really need maximum gaming power graphics cards, charting is nothing like as demanding as 3D gaming. When you go for large...

DTN IQ Feed gives you a year at least. I use Prophetx. Don't forget with futures the contract is not going to be active back that far anyway - unless you use continuous. But the problem is QT not IB. Also QT does keep a linear time axis (doesn't compress time/miss bars if there is no trading...

Changing the PSU is easy, just remember and replace every cable like for like. There are four screws at the back holding the PSU in place. Occasionally there's another internal bracket but not likely. Keep the new cables away from any possible later movement into a fan blade. Most computers...

No, I mean during the install process only, make sure only Desktop Icon and Start Menu entry are ticked - the rest you don't need ticked. Once installed you can leave all the standard tickboxes alone. You might want to go to Options>Advanced and untick the 'leave stuff that is less than 48...

The other thread is mostly overkill for 95% of normal traders, but fine if you are a brokerage or an exchange... If you are a normal trader, here's what you need - if starting with a clean, lean PC (if not, see below), preferably XP Pro: 1) A UPS is good, gives you a few minutes to close...

I bought a solid state drive over Christmas and returned it in January. It had a claimed 90 Mbps read and write speed and would start Windows up in a few seconds. The trouble was 'random write' speeds were very low, maybe 7Mbps for small files. Windows does a lot of that. There are unusual...

Traders who want a robust and reliable wireless router should go for the tried and trusted rather than the latest and greatest. A tech's choice of router would generally be the Linksys and also the Netgear DG834G. The reason is they have a large number of users and by now all the bugs have...

Before doing anything major, try plugging the hard drive's SATA lead into a different SATA socket on the motherboard. Probably won't work but worth a try. If you have access to another computer, you could also try plugging the hard drive in there to see if it works, which would save you...

Regarding uninstall of Avira, I'll admit to not having done many as compared to a hundred plus installations in the last year. Maybe if there is a lot of spyware and junk running on the computer it may cause conflicts. There is a special removal cleaner tool for Avira, mentioned here...

It takes a while but use the Norton Removal Tool and it is just a few clicks to remove all of Norton all at once, with no conflicts. The only complication could be Norton Go Back or Ghost which might require uninstalling first then a restart. Having done this procedure for many hundreds of...

You do need to uninstall everything thoroughly. Some manufacturers like Packard Bell even hide the Add/remove program entry to keep you on the Norton subscription treadmill (they get a cut). Any problem with removal or just in case anyway download the Norton Removal tool here...

Even trading minute bars, you are going to be blind to longer term trends and intraday support resistance with just 10 days. I use minute bars but also have an hourly bar chart which on my 22" screen and without being at maximum density goes back six weeks of 24 hour session trading data...

Notice in the article and related links that AntiVir (free antivirus www.free-av.com) is the only antivirus to catch it still. Nothing is 100% and nothing will replace being sensible what you click on, but AntiVir plus weekly manual scans with free Spybot (www.spybot.com - untick everything...

With maximum two days of intraday history (including hourly bars) most iqfeed data is therefore not accessible. Without this limitation and the session handling problems for globex, I would use it.

Tried an OCZ SSD last month on a new quad core system. XP booted in about 20 seconds and some activities were fine but the performance was really let down by the small-file random-write speed at around 7MB per second on a quoted 'up to 90MB per sec' write speed drive. I'm not interested in...

'No problems whatsoever' is great - but more difficult/expensive/ time consuming if one did occur. Plus, you are paying a premium for the mac and then, unless you can find a crack, another premium for XP on a mac. Fine only if you already have a mac. Check out the 'build or buy' thread...

I posted some comments on this here: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=135649&perpage=6&pagenumber=3 The main part: Macs do offer 'security through obscurity' but are far from problem free. I fix (and have built on PC hardware) macs also and a major problem with a Mac is a...

Thanks Anaconda. The point is that with a 'barebones' system you avoid all the downsides of home builds mentioned. With Asus the PSU's are fine. For those who don't know, a barebones has a motherboard built in, and a PSU. Cabling is in place for the DVD/CD. Everything is done for you except the...