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I had tested one workbook, 50 symbols, ActiveX TWS using reqRealTimeBars...new data every 5 seconds. It completely pegged the CPU at 100%.

Read this: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-drawbacks-to-working-in-it/2850?tag=nl.e101 Which confirms working in IT for peanuts is really stupid. You learn all of this stuff, put up with abuse, and then you are obsolete. Suddenly, becoming an NYC garbage collector for 7 figures...

Interesting comments. No, I have an MBA, on top of a ton of IT experience...still barely able to get 6 figures. Wife's friend works at Merrill Lynch for 5 years...in IT, now wants out and is thinking about nursing school (aren't we all). Nursing is the new prima donna profession. Ironically...

My first thought when I saw this thread title: He's jumping from the frying pan into the fire !!! No question that IT stinks to high heaven....there's no money in it, but there's lots of stress. So I have a degree in Finance and you know what: THATS WORTHLESS TOO right now in this job market...

Whatever you do....don't go "naked". Credit spreads are great because they have a built-in "stop loss". That being said, they are no guarantee of winning however. They just prevent a disaster.

Interestingly, there were improvements made in 2007 and then again in 2010 towards parallel calculations in worksheets. However, once again, I think no improvement in that regard occured with VBA-based functions. Yes, you are right. With a 6x processor, you could assign a separate Excel...

More interesting: FF went from the 7.0.1 release to a whole new release (8.0) very quickly. It appears the release 8 development was concurrent with the 7 release....and that testing with it went well. Enough so that they just moved to that new release and likely a whole new code base. I must...

Interesting. Which version of Excel ? What kind of processing power do you have ? I'll bet at least a quad-core processor . Splitting-up processing between multiple Excel instances would give you a multithreaded-like trading platform. Otherwise, at some point in time, you could easily hit "the...

Final warning about tech: STAY AWAY !!! (or be poor) http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-stagnation-has-moribund-pc-business-to-blame-2011-11-19

This is strictly a West Coast phenomena. Not happening east of Colorado.

So much for those overpaid and pampered programmers at Google.

IBM hasn't hired an American Programmer in years. Check their stock price though.

Interesting observation. Heck, if I made a sex tape, no one would buy it ! In fact, everyone says I'm too old for sex....but I still get that "tumescent glow" in the morning. (BTW: that was from a movie line...anyone remember it ?).

Is this somebody's GF ? It looks like a shot taken from home.

Exactamundo. Bottomline: you gotta know when real opportunity knocks; gotta keep your head in the game during the tough times. What really sucks in life is when you find an opportunity, work hard, and then discover it wasn't such a great opp after all. Then later, a really good one comes...

Paris Hilton ?

All of the jobs have been outsourced ! Thus: Corp profits UP, Personal incomes DOWN Cause enough for OWS.

"Sex Palace", sexescapades, models, etc. GET THIS: Over the past few years, he paid $238 MILLION dollars in legal fees to protect himself !! He allowed tax evasion and corruption to run rampant. He seems to be a lot of "show" and no "go". One opinion: Italy cannot recover from this...

Long story short: Frat brother....very "cocky" as we called him, not that bright, went onto law school. Don't think anyone in the frat thought he would get very far. Clerked, finally ended up in a small firm with a partner. One day, after a year of hard work, landed the largest med malpractive...

Conjecture, your honor. Dude, you'd make a TERRIBLE attorney !