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When dad lived in the Philippines he worked from some cafe in Balibago (perimeter fence, Clarke's). There were a number of Americans trading there and they had a dual connection - one through satelite, the other through PLDT. Unfortunately the guy running the internet show was murdered(Steve...

Neat, may have a play with it over the weekend. Thanks Maria

D2.0 many thanks for your reply. I have set the networking to NAT and not bridged. Was not aware of the boot of USB HDD, many thanks for that. May try that out and also try out something even more complicated: boot USB and then run VMware. Performance on USB HDD is not too bad...

XP is by default configured wrongly: From www.grc.com on wireless network security: travellers on planes getting infected because they turn their laptop on and do not have the wireless network properly configured. Go to "connect to" on start menu, select "wireless network connection"...

A question for those who are better up with networking than I am. I am looking into creating an "emergency environment" in VMware that I can run from an external HDD (firewire or USB 2 connected). If my main trading machine for one reason or another is not available then I want to be able to...

Hi Guys have been running my trading machine for years without any anti-virus running in real time. Have a hardware firewall with NAT and SIF plus have the WinXP firewall running. I do have very strict rules on accessing the internet, email etc. Added to this is a thorough backup /...

With MetaServer RT you do not need to have the symbol name in Global Server the same as the symbol collected. Am now using HyperServer RT where it is necessary to have the same name. Basically what I do is watch the daily volume and when the daily volume of the new contract month overtakes...

this is not only true in the financial markets but also in everything else. This "monoculture" (too much of the same thing) is the cause of the potatoblight, the dustbowl, the global warming etc. diversity is the key but with the finanicial institutions arb'ing so much there is now little to...

You do not mention your data vendor and your data interface. There are a few ways to do this but it depends on what your interface to your data vendor is. If you are using MetaServer RT then you can just rename the symbol in MetaServer. If you are using HyperServer then you need to change...

And you'll find your indicators sold off to evry Tom, Dick and Harry on the web (if not given away for free). I know peopel who will code for free just to get into your mindset. If you want to make it in this business: learn it yourself and do not outsource anything. However, if you search...

really?

IB data is compressed - it is not real tick-by-tick data. If your strategy is influenced by the close on a time based bar then you will most certainly get different results. Do not even try to use tick charts- that is with IB data a crapshoot. Dad reckoned that he wasted over two years...

Perhaps investigate http://www.wingate.com/prod-features.php for using one PC as a firewall / internet firewall ps you don't have to use a seperate PC, it can be installed on the same PC as used for trading.... maria

their free digital signatures are good too http://www.comodogroup.com/products/certificate_services/index.html Maria

A number of the newer laptops are using SATA hard disks. I got a shock too when I started to use Acronis for the first time on this and it apparently did not want to boot for a restore. However give Acronis a minute or two and then you may find that it does find the hard disk and then boots...

Do you need to backtest reading? Once a person knows how to read then no testing is required. Once when one knows how to read the market then no testing is required, same , same. :D Maria PS my third party data vendor has only a week of historical tickdata and the length of the...

Alex why would I want to trade for others if I can generate more than enough money for myself with this? FWIW I have a few otherss here trading with me (a close friend and a two family members) and I get a cut from their profits. But like the story of the cat and the tiger: I have not told...

Does not need to be. Have been using TS2000i for, what 6+ years and am using a third party datavendor through a third party data interface. Works fine. And as broker am using Interactive Brokers. In this way not locked in with a broker or software package. Unless you are into the extreem...

I am with you - actually I may be one step further: run everything under VMware and then you'll never have to upgrade.... Latest version of VMware is pretty slick. It then becomes pretty unimportant which host OS / hardware you use, it will run on almost anything. :-) Maria

Many people want to be flat over the Christmas / New Year period. Many EOY / thin market games going on and some want just to be flat for closing their books (tax accounting), others want just to take their (skiing?) holiday. Maria