for sure your for real a trader! rotfl been there done that for sure.... myself bro. have racks of puters now just in case.
Chris, More of my work on Forex is longer term trend following - which it works rather well for. I have not been to it lately, mostly because in my experience, the longer and strong the trend, the more crazy the tops and bottoms will become. (this is showing out tonight for some of the thinner commodity sets) I mainly go to the Forex on days when there isn't much action on the YM and other index futures, or perhaps on days like those of recent, where the action is a bit radical.
1. Mostly daytrades, 6-10 2. On losers seconds, on winners anywhere from minutes to hours. 3. ES, ETFs 4. 11 Ticks 5. Just price
Oh I was less concerned about MY computers as the data feed dropping or a chart locking ... though of course I could always have my DSL die or trading system reboot. Better safe than sorry, though!