Trading Platforms

Thought it might be interesting to find out other people's trading system setups. So I'll start off with my own:

Hardware:
Pentium II Celeron - 450 (overclocked from 300!)
360mb RAM (its soo cheap now, 256mb for £30 - anyone with less than 256 mb should consider upgrading immediately!)
12GB Hard Disk space (split between two hard disks)
2 x 15" ViewSonic TFT Flatscreen Monitors (My babies!)
G450 AGP Matrox Dual Head Card (to power them!)

Software:
AIQ RT with Mytrack data feed (not using at the mo, since im not trading regularly enough)
Quote.com - like their free realtime dow chart (click the link on the front page of t2w, on the market report for DJI to get it! - still not in the same league as AIQ).

Internet:
AOL 6.0 on a 56k modem

Brokers:
CMC-SB - (no fees, just the spread, but they requote you too often and bias the spread when there's any movement - so I'm thinking of changing). Used to spread bet the DJI.
Comdirect - (to qualify for the £150 acc. openning offer)
DLJ Direct - (my broker since the start of 2000, not used for a few months now)

Trading Frequency:
Occasional at the moment - looking to start trading DOW open and close on a regular basis.

Hardware
Evesham Athlon 500
512Mb Ram (upgraded as so cheap...)
20MB disk
2x19 inch screens
Magnox G400 d/head video card
UPS (we get black/brown outs occasionally in winter and odd spikes living on edge of country)

Software
Updata Trader 1.. will not renew when license expires
Linnsoft's Investor RT.. real time with lovely grahics.
Sharescope
Win98SE.. upgrading soon to XP for reliability...

Brokers:
GNI
Fins
C Schwab (not used for months)


And NTL cable as ISP/internet connection (moved from ISDN .. cheaper and quicker and no 2 hour relogging on:-)

Hardware
1gig Athlon
2x20gig hds
512ram
2xgeneric monitors(19&16)
AGP dual head card

Software
Updata Proff II
Prestel live feed

Internet
NTL cable

Brokers
CMC - (sb)

Trading
Daily (for a few weeks anyway!)
Footsie only at the moment but investigating the
Americian indices when I can find suitable software or
sites!

Hugh
Have a look at http://www.linnsoft.com/tour/

Hardware
Dan pentium III 1gig
512 mb ram
50 gb disk
2x 19 in screens
G450 Matrox card

Software
Window on wallstreet,for graphs and back up level 2
Soon adding e-signal as well.
Exp trader level 2 software
Terranova level 2 software
TC 2000 for daily US scans
Briefing for news

Internet
BT ADSL
56kmodem for back up
Aol and hemscott.net as well

Brokers
Schwab UK for peps
Investin Dallas for US swing trades
Terranova for US scalping
My broker for trading/investing my SIPP on the Nasdaq

2nd Hardware set up

Dan Pentium II 450
256mb ram
2 x 15in flat screen monitors
10g hard drive

Software
Updata(not looked at for 4 months)
Sharescope
TC 2000
Exp trader(for back up swing plays)
My broker(for investing SIPP on the Nasdaq)
Window on wallstreet for more graphs

Internet
AOL on a 56k modem on seperate bt line

Trading
Daily, US only.
Strong scalping on the open for 1st hour(loads of trades)
then tailing off and picking up at the end of the day.
Swing playing in second account through out the day.
Indices, only QQQ's

Naz

i'v seen mention of QQQ,s a few times now, is it the name of a company?

BTW nice setup!

The QQQ's are a Nasdaq 100 tracking stock.they are an easy and very quick way for anyone with a nasdaq level 2 screen to trade the Nasdaq 100 index.If you have ecn access to trading this stock it allows you to buy on the bid sell on the ask and capture the spread.

Naz and Madasafish

thanks for the info, much appreciated by a newbie!