Daniel,
You have awesome plans! I've nothing as elaborate. DBC Signal Online for quotes, time&sales, etc. on a 15" monitor (which I may trade out for a larger, but space-saving flat screen at some point). And a phone. Internet access is through a T1 to work, which is on a T1 to WinStar.
I don't have the room for a full-fledged data center at home so I've crammed everything I can into a small space. For example, CNBC plays on the monitor via a ATI card. During trading hours I minimize it and listen to the sound (maximizing it when/if I want to see something, turning it off when it gets annoying).
Also running but minimized are the Fidelity Web-Site (so I can occasionally double check my positions to ensure I'm flat), Fidelity FoxPlus (so I can do a longer timeframe position trade apart from the broker I have on the phone), SI, and occasionally mIRC for daytrade chat. I've got 256Meg SDRAM installed on a 400Mhz machine so all this stuff can work smoothly.
I don't use charting software and I don't know if I'm missing out on something great. I'm probably missing opportunities in stocks that I'm not focused on and not alerted to, so this is something that I should explore. As for the two or three stocks that I am focused on, I rely on my instincts to tell me when to make a channel move. I'm often wrong.
Best,
Gary Korn |
