Broadband Connection Speed for DayTrading

One thing I might add is some Brokerages will lie to you over the phone telling you "Our System is working fine, it must be your system lacking memory or CPU power."


I had them lie until I met a few people using their system and they were on the phone non-stop because of their active trading overwhelmed a system designed for a few trades per day. Why lie to us, what's their end game if we have access to other traders suffering our problems. Once we get together, we talk and expose issues from "crashing" while trying to place orders to crashing or creating false day trading calls having our Brokerage lock our accounts down.


I have Alien-ware laptops so its not a power issue, their high-end gaming computers. Platforms can be very unstable even with the best computers and clean ISPs, each person must evaluate their potential platforms before joining up. Reading one of the questions posted about a Brokerage I had problems with them too, how come some Brokerages can have great platforms and others using JAVA crash? One of my brokers had a software patch and I have problems ever since. I will adjust the anti-viral software as you recommended, thank you!
 
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All this for less than $100/month. Unlimited downloads, I do a few hundred gigs a month. And cannot remember when the connection went down, must have been years ago. Full glassfiber. And neglectable loss of packages (which is important too).

My problem was not internet, but processorcapacity of my computer.
 
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A lot of good info in the replies. I looked at shutting down unnecessary processes but if I shut down all of the programs I would put my PC at risk. The only way to only have software running on your PC that u need for trading is to have a Trading PC and have no other software installed on it. Maybe in the future I might think about setting up a Trading PC.
 
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A lot of good info in the replies. I looked at shutting down unnecessary processes but if I shut down all of the programs I would put my PC at risk. The only way to only have software running on your PC that u need for trading is to have a Trading PC and have no other software installed on it. Maybe in the future I might think about setting up a Trading PC.
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Windows Update and the update of your anti-virus software can be set to manual, that means you would update everything only on the weekends or when the market is closed.
Those are the 2 things that are essential.
If you keep it up to date, use a solid anti-virus and don't visit shady websites - as long as you keep it spartan regarding software, you can use the PC for both general use and trading.
 
if I did get a PC solely for Trading and was only using it to view websites like adobe and java to update the PC would you install malware on the PC.
 
No need for an anti-virus/anti-malware in that case although Flash in general is full of security issues, I don't use it for this reason.
 
I am now located in Ukraine for example and I am trading with the speed of 1GBps ethernet connection for everything else done here. But please do remember that all trading was being done with something like for example even dial up modems.
 
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