Assent/Anvil-excellent fast fills suitable for scalping, slippage only attributable to market itself or specialist, no delayed openings, I never experienced an outage, extremely rare- stuck prints or quotes. Charts-Quote Tracker with IQ feed- reliable,accurate, reasonably priced. Anvil also has it's own basic charts. Computer-Windows 2000 Pro, Raid 1 parallel hard drives, with removable backup IDE drive. Backup the hard drive with Acronis True Image 10.0. McAfee firewall and virus scan. Actiontec router. Regular update of security alerts on Windows. No problems at all for several years with this set up.
I wanted to clear something up. 1. Tuco is a good company, yes I was having issues with delayed data on the platform that was causing serious issues but overall I still like the company and I would classify them as top notch people (for the industry). 2. My main rant was basically about ALL the technology and all the companies that we must deal with as traders. Charts Data Platforms ISP's Computer manufacturers Exchanges ECN's etc... When we have tech issues everyone blames everyone else and the problem is that I'm just not tech savy enough to figure out where the issues really are and that's were my frustration was stemming from. Anyways enough ranting and it's Friday so let's hope we all have a better next week.