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A couple of setups that I saw using the tick today. My rules concerning the tick are basically if price is trending and the tick is hitting extremes then I only take with trend setups until the trendline is broken and there has been a test of the previous price extreme. If the market is ranging then I look for divergences at S/R.

Hello Urma ,thank you for the posts. Do you monitor the price ranges where these after hour spikes occur as potential S/R zones and if you do is there a typical length of time that they stay relative. I have attached a screen shot of this morning the purple lines bracket the "price zone".

It lasted about two hours and forty five minutes with continuos use.

I haven't really been paying attention but I think that the battery has been lasting me about 4 hours. I just charged it up and will let you know how long it lasts.

I recently bought an HP Pavilion that has treated me great so far. You can see the specs on the custom computer vs Best Buy thread. A few members who seemed to know what they are talking about lined me out on the components which I then shopped around to all of the major brands. HP had by far the best deal at the time, and the computer which runs Vista handles trade station like a dream. Good luck

Macs the bomb. I've had an ibook for a few years and it has had a hard life. In and out of my truck, freezing cold to blasting covered in sawdust, dirt and dog hair and it's never missed a beat. Add to that that I never even think about viruses. That being said man are they expensive and I would think that running vista on a mac would eliminate the virus protection.

Thanks 52. I've been a mac guy for a quite a while so I'm out of the loop about protection, but your the second person thats told me that Norton sucks.They are still building the computer so I'm going to call and try to get the Norton removed from the order. The people at Hp suggested the 2 hard drives to run vista properly.

Well after way to much agonizing and a ton of reading it's done.I ended up going with HP, they have way more machine then any of the other companies I was looking at for 1/2 to 3/4 the price :thumbs up:. Below is what I ended up with. Probably more then I will need but if I get addicted to gaming I'll have a kick ass machine. Thanks for all the help both on this thread and all of the other ones in this forum HP Pavilion dv9700t customizable Notebook PC Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor T9300 (2.50GHz) 17.0" diagonal WSXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1680 x 1050) 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS FREE Upgrade to HP Imprint Finish (Radiance) + Fingerprint Reader + Microphone Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection 240GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (120GB x 2) LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support HP ExpressCard Digital/Analog TV Tuner 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery Norton Internet Security 2008 - 3 Year Subscription Microsoft® Works 9.0 HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

I am thinking about going with a customized Dell XPS M1730 with the following components. A buddy of mine has a 20% business discount with Dell so the total purchase will run me about $2650. What do you think. Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache) Genuine Windows® XP Professional 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz RAID Performance: 400GB (2x200GB) 7200RPM Free Fall Sensor CD / DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW Drive) NVIDIA®SLI™Dual GeForce®8700MGT with 512MB GDDR3 Memory Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965a/g/n Mini Card 85 WHr Lithium Ion Battery (9-cell) High Definition Audio 2.0 My Software & Accessories McAfee SecurityCenter 15-months Microsoft Works

Thanks a lot guys. I am in the process of selling one of my mountain bikes to lessen the pain of purchasing this computer. If I buy the computer from a major distributer I can afford to buy a new fly rod as well. I currently have an old mac laptop and love the idea of not having to deal with firewalls and such. Any problems using software based platforms with bootcamp. Once again thanks for taking the time to respond.

Thanks alot. as far as the bottle necking how do you go about figuring out if the video will or won't.

Does anyone have any thoughts / experiences with custom built trading computers verse mass produced models. I am in the market for a new laptop and don't have time to build my own, there are a few companies that build computers specifically for traders. It is difficult to compare apples to apples but the main differance between "comparable" models seems to be in the price. I mentioned the above comment to the custom computer company and he said that the reason for the higher cost was that they used better components and the way that they configured the components would eliminate bottle necks and allow platforms to run faster and more efficiently. This sounds great and if true might make the higher costs a bargain. Your thoughts O wise ones

I am considering purchasing a custom built laptop from trading computers. Has anyone had any experience with their products. It is difficult to compare apples to apples but it appears that the custom built computers have the same components as the mass produced computers. The only difference appears to be in the price tag , the custom computers are quite a bit more expensive. Thanks all.