Have been following this thread with interest and just re-read this whole thread. Thanks for all for their inputs.
Dennis Many years ago (must have been 10 or more) I had a couple of Toshiba Portege laptops where I did just exactly that tightly coupling. Somehow I got a very obscure virus that none of the prevalent virus checkers at the time discovered (MacFee, Norton and a few others). I was backing up to external hard disks (2 separate ones). In any case to cut the story short: both machines got infected and it took me almost a month to get everything running properly again (!!!!). Lost a lot of stuff that I never recovered. I still use two separate machines but totally separated from each other, not even a USB key gets shared. One is purely for other family members / internet access for "generic" work plus a simple setup to get out of a position in case my trading machine goes down. Trading machine has only one email account which is used for the broker only and no-one else. Backing up happens using Acronis, normally onto a hard disk but once a month onto a DVD. Takes < 10 minutes to restore. It is interesting to read of the high performance requirements - I used to be in the same situation requiring the fastest connection I could get (not easy in new Zealand, quite some lag to the good old US of A) but as Jesse Livermoore pointed out: once you know how to trde the millions come easier trading longer term (than the hundreds came intraday...) (or something along these lines). I am slowly totally getting peeved off with the Microsoft antics that I am now seriously starting to look towards moving to a Mac or Linux platform. Being a user these days (as opposed to a systems / database / datawarehouse specialist) I am getting some positive vibes for the Mac. Peace to all and once again thanks to all for the reporting of their experiences. --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Brown <se...@...> wrote: .... Both machines are tightly networked together and back each other up. If my Parallels machine goes down for any reason, I can bring it up on the other machine from a time machine restore.
