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If you are in a trend like today in the NQ, you look to add on with each sell signal. Like Panda said, on pullbacks, breakouts, anywhere that if you were flat you would take the trade. I have done this today and have had a really amazing day so far...
So I had an unrecoverable computer crash this week....which meant I had to buy a new computer. Being a Mac fan , I was loath to spend money on a PC and wanted to buy something that would take care of my trading needs and nothing more. I do everything else on my Mac.
Its been 6-7 years since I bought a computer and was unprepared for the trauma this entails. I spent some time researching online using my 10 year old Macbook Pro which has never once given me even the slightest problem and simply couldn't find anything I thought I would want in the price range I wanted.
So off to Best Buy I went after stopping at Staples and even Walmart to look at machines.
At Best Buy I found a reasonably priced machine, with 6GB of Ram, a nice hard drive and an i5 processor. More than enough for my needs. It was on sale and they even gave me $100 trade in for my old machine. Nice
Got it home and thats when the evil empire struck. I have to say, setting up the new machine was at first, a nightmare of fighting microsoft for the rights to my own property. They wanted me to be locked into their ecosystem even more than Apple does. I couldn't even begin to set it up without creating microsoft accounts. But eventually I got around all that and got the new thing set up.
I have to say, other than the strong arm tactics of microsoft, I like the new computer, its pretty fast, runs NT nicely, and once I got rid of the silly 8.1 interface, it was super easy to use. IT doesn't reproduce color the same way my old machine did. Actually not even close but I suppose there are settings for that. I'll dive into those settings next week.
I tried for windows 7 but no one had them in stock locally and I didn't want to wait for one to be shipped so I just capitulated and got 8.1. I don't like much about its user interface. It came preinstalled with all kinds of useless apps and attempts to get me to buy subscriptions for several different programs. To me, these kinds of tactics should be outlawed. If I want those apps, I'll find them and buy them, don't try to force me to buy them.
It does have a sense of humor though, I'm downloading my backups from drop box and the little drop box icon says in place of the time remaining "a long time, grab a snickers". I thought that was funny.
Anyway, I have a new machine for better or worse.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
I bought a cheap toshiba satellite laptop...on sale with a trade in credit. Paid less than $500 out the door.....actually left this bit out on purpose as i was a bit embarrassed to admit I bought such a poor machine.....but it works and I'm happy....so far anyway.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
i5 with 8g ram... Is plenty for a dedicated trading computer. Trading data is a lot like audio. It comes in at real time, so not computing power is needed for average trading / audio recording ... My i5 Maxine runs an average of 10%....
Its 15 inch connected via HDMI to my 30 inch HD monitor. Only problem is it doesn't support the monitor at its full resolution like my my mac does. But neither did the one its replacing so no noticeable difference in what I see.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
I had the same problem with HDMI when I upgraded monitors a few months ago. The resolution displayed right on a VGA connection so I switched to that and its been good ever since. Maybe a DVI to VGA converter would work?