Taking your trading on the road

Quote from fastpenny:

I have a dell insprion 9300 as well (1.8g cpu). but i never really trade on it. my trading setup are two dual processor machines.

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Duals are nice, but I've traded for weeks with the Itronix as my only machine; running execution and bloomberg on it. It's certainly not ideal, but worked well on vacation.
 
the monitor is practically a space heater.

Some sharp eyes, ARB, u work for the cia on the side? :)

The script is actually roids, not the bulk up kind. As for the heineken...they are just dam good:)
 
This morning esig was slow by about 7 secs... my bandwidth was testing fast so i think it was on their side. It has since cleared up.

My execution system wigged out on me. I'm having support check the keylog to see if it was my keybrd or some obscure setts i may have used setting up hammer. I sent a mkt order for 300 to tick up and saw 9 orders go up for 1800 in all. i was able to cancel out of half and luckily the $osx was with me. Kinda made me gun shy now.

I replaced the batts in the keybrd. seems to have cleared up but i notice a slight lag. anybody use a bluetooth krybrd experience this?

all in all cant believe how forunate i have been today despite these issues. eventually ill work out the kinks. better lucky than good. think i will bank my gains and go buy wifey her birthday gift
 
Hefty-

I kind of like Maison 140. Been there several times. Hang out in the dark little bar and almost guaranteed some celebs will pass you by, or at least some tight little bodied women looking to become a celeb :p

You could always pony up 4x the price and move to the Peninsula accross the street.
http://beverlyhills.peninsula.com/

If you are trading with Hammer, are you with Assent? If that's the case why don't you just go into the Westwood office only 10 mins away (1 hour w/traffic.....keep the beer and scripts handy). I'm sure they could set you up with some desk space and multiple monitors.

I prefer to travel light with just a 14" laptop. Certainly not as comfortable as the normal multiple monitor set-up, but you're not gonna find me lugging around a monitor on vacation.

Enjoy SoCal....If you need some recs for places to eat or things to do, shoot me a PM. I used to live in Santa Monica.

Cheers!
 
Ahh, Panama City, the redneck Riviera this time. 2nd and last day of trading this trip. Weather's great and mkt's cooperating. I could get used to this. No technical issues so far. Happy Memorial day.
 
hefty,

I am going a international travel (vacation) for 6 weeks. I want to bring my Dell 2405 with me as well.

The problem is that I have hard time to find a carry on box to meet the size requirement (45" h+w+l). Did you try to pack your 24" in a carry on? I am not comfortable to pack the monitor in a check in box though.


Quote from hefty1:

Having scored a new job, my wife had to go to LA for a week for training. I figured I'd tag along and work from the road. Call it an experiment in working freedom.

The objecy of this thread is to detail what one needs to trade while on semi-vacation. I'll also describe the challenges I faced during the week of trading on strange turf.

I had about a month to prepare. Ordered a dell inspiron laptop from dell... 17" wuxga screen, 2gigs ram.

other equipment purchased:

Laptop bookbag to carry it with other gear

Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I hate laptop keyboards.

24" Dell flatscreen 1920x1200 resolution, I needed it anyhow

Underwater kinetics drybox bot from optics planet.com. This is a big, tuff, and heavy SOB to tote the monitor around.
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