Victor and thread: I had an interesting weekend, spent it at the daytrading expo in New York. This is a twice yearly gig, once in Ontario, California, and then in NYC.
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I can tell you that the place was packed. It seems that I read trading is a young persons game, but most folks I saw appeared to be at or nearing middle age <ggg>. In any event, it was a hardware/data junkie's delight. Large LCD's are in, I saw some very nice multi-monitor setups featuring 18" and even 20" panels. Some folks were running outrageous setups using those large plasma displays that are advertised these days as TVs.... Reason for this post is that Compaq had a large booth at the expo, with loads of NT based workstations running multi-monitor LCDs. Compaq also had a VAR there demonstrating some nifty decision support trading software. I spoke with two Compaq reps, both were knowledgeable concerning the specifics I was asking them (make that testing them) concerning the multi-monitor Matrox video cards in the workstations. HOWEVER, I told the second (very pleasant) fellow I was talking with that I trade Compaq stock and asked if he read SI. Got a blank look at which time I added that SI was an online forum. He then said 'sorry, I'm NOT AN ONLINE KIND OF GUY!!!!' I thanked him and walked away, perhaps he was the one 'Dirty Harry' type at Compaq, that is 'the one constant in an ever changing world' <gggg>
Regards,
John
PS - CNBC probably will provide some coverage if they have not already done so, as Bill Griffeth was the speaker at the trader's dinner... |
