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Gold/Mining/Energy : Day trading in Canada -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Buckey who wrote (1464)	11/20/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: JAS	Respond to of 4467

John.. yes I use cable with Scotia. Slower than e-trade(which seems almost instant on a altered market buy or sell) When I use Scotia, I really plan the trades and timing and hardly ever use a market. Used them for a market buy when chart said buy this stock at 3.05. Saw my trade go through 3 min later on Stockwatch at 3.38. I would never trade with those guys without immediately calling in a stop loss. To be fair, most trades are just under 60 sec but have had 5 sec service with e-trade usng a 166 mhz - videotron cable (50.00/mt)- 80 mg ram - CSW T & A depth and real time (78.00 mt) Jim

To: Buckey who wrote (1464)	11/21/1998 12:16:00 AM
From: keith massey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4467

JAS I am not completely sure about the internal setup of the Compaq presario. However I am assuming that it doesn't have an AGP video card slot and takes SDRAM. A PCI video card with 8megs will set you back $70-$150. I have a diamond viper 330 ($90) in one of my PCI slots and it works great. However if your going with a cable modem you may think of getting a card with 12megs on the board. SDRAM (non-PC-100) is going for $1.5-2/meg. Putting in 64Megs of RAM will set you back around $110-150. You should be able to do this yourself with instructions from the net or people on this thread. A computer place will charge you $50-70 for the upgrade labour. Best Regards KEITH