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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures
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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (44183)3/13/2001 6:01:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin   of 44573
 
For me, I just do not have much time. Here and there, but I cannot tell the market to wait until I have the time to trade a move.

One thing I am doing is replacing an old machine with an AMD Athelon (?) 900 machine. Less than $500, it can be a backup machine. Been real tired of fixing Windows 2000. Now I should be able to just switch over to the backup and repair the regular machine when there is time.

$500, I should have done this a long time ago. I know a guy who keeps old IBM junks around just in case....runs 16 computers at once. A week rarely goes by that he isn't pulling out a hard drive here, flipping a monitor there.

He trades between 10 and 100, sometimes more than a hundred, SP Contracts at a time. Rather than have one or two great machines that can kill his day, he has a junkyard full of spare parts. I think it's probably the only smart way to go, particularly for me. I was always more hardware-inclined than software-inclined.

We once ripped out the guts of two Apple ][+ machines to repair a short that a friend had created in one. Even tough the Irish Water of Life was flowing, the only mistakes we made was to put a few RAM in backwards. Saved the guy over a thousand dollars. We saved his CPM card, the motherboard and a few other cards. The only Baked Apple card was a Hayes Modem, which Hayes replaced for free.

Warranty.

But give me a software glitch and I revert to rigaut.home.cern.ch
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