About the right tools to trade, here you have my two cents of experience and advice.
If you rely on your own computer to run the proprietary trading programs (Cybertrader, Realtick, JavaTrader), you NEED stability. Nothing worse than a total freezing just a second after you bought 1000 shares of a fast moving stock (OK, if your broker melts down, it IS even worse).
Being a Mac guy, I wondered about how people could ever think of using Windows95 or Windows98 for such critical tasks. In my experience crashes are unavoidable, regardless RAM availability. I tried for a while, but I had no comfidence in my envinronment, and it added stress to trading.
So I started using WindowsNT instead.
No match about stability and reliability, and subjectively much more speed for any task. For me, this is the way to go. Yes, much more troubles to install it first time, and more hardware requests, but if you can master Level II, you can master it too.
Happy trading! |
