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What is the resolution that you spoke of?

This is how I understand as well. (You only pay margin interest on the actual amount borrowed.) But perhaps different brokerage firms have different practice.

Perhaps IB is in the business of ripping off investors? I have been day-trading only. My capital had been earning some interests in the money market account for many years until 2009 when Ben kept lowering interest rate to practically zero.

Maybe those are not U.S. prices? I have seen most PSU prices for 600W-700W around $70-$80. Some could be bought for $40 with promotion rebates.

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I don't know about IB. But many brokers have automatic swap set up for margin accounts. This means if you don't use your money to buy stocks and hold overnight, your money will be in a money market account earning interest for you. (Though not much these days). If you use your money to buy...

I don't think so... Long and short are on different stocks. They don't offset each other. You need to pay margin interest on the $10 borrowed. Even if Stock1 and Stock2 are indentical... sometimes it happens because some trade mechanisms did a "short" instead of "sell", or "buy" instead of...

I have taken both TPM1 and TPM2. I found that TPM2 is more useful than TPM1. In TPM1 they teach a lot of setups. e.g. go with the trend you buy at 20MA on an uptrend, etc.. Names like Mortgage Play or one thing or another... I can't remember most. In TPM2, Greg Capra had organized the...

Thanks for the ideas Scataphagos, charlieThomas and chisel. After 2 days of testing in live market conditions, running TradeStation in landscape orientation is no problem. The CPU usage is under 10% for most of the day - which is more in line with my other computers with similar...

$180 to support 6 mons, or $30 a mon. That is indeed a very good deal, especially a high-end graphics card. Only hesitation would be the replacement cost concern. Hopefully these cards are very reliable.

Looks like a very basic IBM 101 keyboard layout. Not sure what the customization mean. Different languages? A regular, generic 101 keyboard is about $15 these days. (IBM charged over $100 for a keyboard for their IBM PC in the 80's).

I have found 2 quick things you can do to improve the wifi connection at home: 1. Try at all possible: move the wifi router closer to your computer(s) where you will be using the USB wifi dongles. 2. The USB wifi dongles usually come with a USB extension cord and a craddle. Situate this...

The specification said "maximum monitors supported" = 4. How they do it was not mentioned. Or perhaps it means it takes 2 of their cards to drive 4 monitors. Not sure. The best is to call their tech support to ask them the question before you buy.

That was interesting. Thanks for the link shfly. But with a "pricetag: $1,549", I think I would need to wait a while...

Recently I experimented with setting up 24-inch 16:9 ratio monitors in a portrait orientation (instead of the default landscape orientation) to view my TradeStation charts. I observed something very strange happened. I have a box with an Intel i7-930 class of processor (pretty good...

I see some news clips from time to time showing traders/businessmen inside NYSE walking around with some devices that looked like tablets of some sort. Didn't look like ipad. Does anybody know what they maybe using?

Thanks Professor. These ipad or other tablets have only wifi on them, right? Or maybe some have 4G cell phone built in. How fast is the data link? I have seen a google map update on an iphone4. It was not very fast. And that's for a 4-inch screen space. I can't imagine how fast/slow it...

Thanks for replying jficquette and endsongs. Yes I am running Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate with 6 GB RAM. I have the option to load 32-bit if it deems more useful/stable for TradeStation. I noted it as a thing to try. Thanks. Because I use the box only for trading and restrict to not using...

On this box of mine, I only run TradeStation on it to draw charts. Nothing else. It has a i7-930 processor. Speed should be pretty good. But... #1) It is not a surprise but still kind of disappointing... that TradeStation doesn't support multi-core and hyperthreading architecture. Once...

Thanks for the link jprad. Unfortunately the article was posted in 2008 and I didn't find the current models of CPU chip (e.g. Intel i7-930, chipset X58) and other newer NVidia chips (e.g. the GS series). From what I gathered the i7 series processors seem to take up a bit more powers than the...