Hi Nitro, basically I have no crashes or quote delays. my setup is Qfeed data with Metaserver and only about 8 symbols. All my data into tradestation is the same realtime as with Qcharts and my brokers(IB, for S&P mini ,notes, bonds). Windows2000, 1.3gig AMD athlon, 512mb ddr ram, cable modem. I also run trade prospector realtime and am only utilizing about 5-10% of the CPU usage. I don't usually have any data gaps but if I do, I can use Qloader program to get that quickly. have a good one.
Hi Nitro, Thanks for the feedback. I was wondering do you have TS6 and Ts2000i installed on the same machine? Reason I ask is I signed up to the TS6 account (no brokerage) last night and before doing so, I uninstalled 2000i. Was wondering if I really needed to do this? I would prefer to keep both for obvious reasons - some similar to the data reasons you outlined above - TS2000i for 'offline' reasons. Regards, Splat and before installing it I uninstalled TS2000i
m_c_a98, Ok. I noticed you put up your machine stats, here are mine: Win2K Advaced Server 2.4 GHZ Dual Xeon CPU 2GB of ECC RAM 768 Symmetric DSL, backed up by 768/256 DSL 40GB 10000RPM Hot Swap redundant SCSI drives running RAID 1 I run 40 open workspaces, the eminis tick by tick, a squawk, a news service, and a scanner... All realtime...CPU utilization 75-100% nitro
Splat, You can have them installed on the same machine. Would I _run_ them both at the same time on the same machine? Only if I wanted to reboot twice as often. nitro
Nice setup.. Actually, I've had the same PC setup for two years; I just don't really need an upgrade at this time. A little more: for the trading PC I mentioned I also have 3 monitors going. I have a second PC(which I'm typing this message on) that uses IE, Outlook, excel, visual basic, mp3's, and then also Xsquawk during the day. With tradestation I usually only have about 4 or 5 workspaces open, so that may be a factor as to my trouble free usage.
A little more for you: I have 8 flat screen monitors - 1 fifteen incher, 6 18.1, and 1 19.1 all connected to the main trading machine. I have the capacity currently for two more, but getting a total of 16 would be a breeze. I have a laptop 1.2 Ghz PIII that I use as an experimental machine, and it is also the one that I use as the back up in case I am in a trade and Behemoth [my term of endearment for my main trading machine] goes down. I also have a 4 node cluster on a 1GB network. That is experimental... Then there is the slew of computers that are just sitting around... nitro
Sure, Here is the older version before the purchase of the new monitors: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6319&perpage=6&pagenumber=3 Look towards the bottom of the page for the two .gifs. I have since moved to the basement. I fried a fuse in my house and I am afraid of setting my house in flames. I will post the newer one soon if you really care. nitro