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How To Set Up The Ultimate At-Home Trading Station
- rdtsc 17y ago> A 50mbps pipe for $150 a month will do wonders compared to your ancient cable modem. Isn't it more about latency then throughput? If the machine->ISP->broker is closer network-wise (say 20 ms RTT) on a 1mbps DSL line, you'll execute trades faster than on a 50mbps FIOS but with a 80ms RTT. And then, in general, after a couple of milliseconds the news have already been "factored" into the market by all the quants and their $100,000 hyper-optimized system. I have always been suspicious of "get rich by trading". Sure there are a lot of successful day traders but I don't think we see all the losers so we get a skewed picture of the risk/return. Now if I get my hands on that sweet 4 monitory setup, I'll attach a model M IBM keyboard to it and fire up some emacs windows with some Python or Haskell code in them instead of playing the lottery.
- tortilla 17y agoYes, latency is really important. Good comment here: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-trading-station-2009-11#comment-4b169cc50000000000033b93 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ultimate-trading-station-...