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Strategies & Market Trends : Momentum Daytrading - Tricks of the Trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Street Walker who wrote (352)	1/20/1998 7:33:00 AM
From: Scott Pedigo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2120

Assuming the reason for two+ monitors is to have trading software AND real-time quotes/charts AND news articles AND IRC all running at the same time, isn't there the likelihood of overloading the single modem connection (at least until cable arrives?) The problem isn't just screen real-estate. A 21" monitor set to high resolution gives you plenty of that already. Having two computers gives you something important - redundancy. You can work with one if you have to, if one fails. You don't have to restart everything if one crashes, or one phone line hiccups. Win95 and/or Netscape crash on me regularly, requiring a reboot. If this happens in the middle of a trade, you can get left holding the bag. The more programs running on one computer, the more chance of one taking them all down. I HAVE ISDN already. Guess what - there's plenty of other bottlenecks in the Internet and the servers being accessed to drag the response time down so that there's not a very big difference from using a 28.8 Kbit modem a lot of the time.