Recent content by wysinawyg

Advanced Graphics Port, or something like that. Basically there are three places for you to have graphics capability: Motherboard - lots of motherboards ("mobos") have inbuilt graphics these days. Usually they'll only run one monitor though (for a sexy on mobo dual screen option look at the...

Depends what you mean by best. Probably the best quality wise (and ease of installation and compatability wise) is a four head card from Matrox (G200 or G450) as long as you're just looking to use it for 2D work (i.e. not games as well). Cheapest route is probably a pair of PCI cards, although...

Yes :) wysi

www.prophet.net They say the bronze plan has real time scanning at $15 but that'd be odd as you don't get live prices. Silver plan definitely has live scanning and will do you what you want at $25 a month or $250 a year. I found it pretty versatile when I was playing around with it. wysi

I'm with Philip here who appears to know the case that I, and the Inland Revenue Tax Manual, are talking about. Based on what I know you're pretty much bullet proof as long as you only spread bet and don't trade any of the underlying separately. On the other hand if you spread bet shares and...

Blairlogie, At that price check you're getting at least 1 gig ram. I reckon it sounds on the pricey side for what you're doing. The biggy though is what seems to be your insistence on getting 3 x 15" monitors. If you went for 2 x 17" or 18" flat panels you'd probably get more screen real...

Re: TAX ON SB - YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!! I've always said I'm happy to let it drop once those who say there isn't an issue explain why there is a section in the IR manual on the situations in which winnings from gambling are taxable and how spread betting is more like gambling then playing...

Cheers Doug, $1200 a year "interest" on $5k seems like a bargain to me. wysi

0.5% when you buy. If you want to avoid it: 1) use spreadbets; or 2) use CFDs; or 3) purchase ADRs or similar on a foreign exchange; or 4) find a good lawyer and tax advisor to set up something complicated and expensive off shore (I presume this can be done) wysi

For anyone out there suing them, do they force you to make a certain number of trades in order to get the brokerage client discount on th eplatform fee? Just trying to figure out if it would be possible to just leave $5k in the TS7 account and deal with IB in order to avoid the base platform...

TheBramble, You need to do price x volume for every single trade of the day so far, sum the total and then divide that by total volume. Can't write the actual formula properly as not sure how on a computer but as a crappy form where p=price of trade and volume=volume of trade...

JonnyT, If you add another WAP does it act as a repeater? i.e. could you chain them together to increase range? wysi

Bit late, but just seen an interesting suggestion that I thought relevant to this over on TMF. Buy UK stocks through ADRs. Probably a bit easier in some ways for you to come up with ideas and you get to keep the dollar funds whilst hedging against FX moves automatically (although obviously...

Over the past few years I've come to the conclusion that there are almost certainly thousands of different ways to take money out of the market. The catch? There's probably a few million different ways of giving money to the market, and only time and experience will let you know which path...

No - I'd be rich by now if I would. wysi