Why Custom Trading Computers Offer More Value For Your Investment You could trade on any computer, but that doesn’t make it a trading computer. Trading computers are machines designed for the specific task of trading. This might be confusing if you don’t understand the stresses that trading software places on a PC. Trading platforms, charts, and algorithms are run by software that has to execute multiple complex computations at the same time to present you with the correct information. This is an extremely taxing situation for a trading computer, let alone a standard off- the-shelf PC. It’s like the amount of energy it takes to sprint versus run. You have to be stronger and have more endurance to run a 4-minute mile than a 12-minute mile. Trading is like ultra fast running to a computer. It’s very fast paced and maintains that pace for 8-10 hours a day. A standard PC is not built to withstand this type of environment. It happens all to often that traders make the mistake of investing in a PC that isn’t going to last or purely can’t handle the workload. At this point, the initial investment was for a computer from a big box store at eight hundred dollars. Now that you have to buy a second computer that actually works, you now have to eat that cost and spend fifteen hundred bucks on a computer that is designed for traders. Successful traders know that this is a rookie mistake. The best choice would have been to invest the right amount upfront rather than risk spending a lower amount and not buying the machine you need. The highest value is in a custom trading computer. This means that you are spending a large amount of your purchase on quality hardware that will be able to withstand the workload of your trading day. Standard retail PCs will force you to pay a price that is mostly profit to the company because the parts are low quality. These big name companies can get away with this because they have a “brand” that consumers recognize. By educating yourself about these dilemmas, you can better protect yourself from falling into this type of trap. Custom trading computers are often designed and built by traders themselves. The value in these computers also comes from benefiting from their knowledge of testing what works for trading computers. They took the risks to spend money on hardware just to find out in the long run it doesn’t stand up to the task of trading. Because of those experiences, they have

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Why Custom Trading Computers Offer More Value For Your Investment

You could trade on any computer, but that doesn’t make it a trading computer. Trading computers are machines designed for the specific task of trading. This might be confusing if you don’t understand the stresses that trading software places on a PC. Trading platforms, charts, and algorithms are run by software that has to execute multiple complex computations at the same time to present you with the correct information. This is an extremely taxing situation for a trading computer, let alone a standard off-the-shelf PC. It’s like the amount of energy it takes to sprint versus run. You have to be stronger and have more endurance to run a 4-minute mile than a 12-minute mile. Trading is like ultra fast running to a computer. It’s very fast paced and maintains that pace for 8-10 hours a day. A standard PC is not built to withstand this type of environment.

It happens all to often that traders make the mistake of investing in a PC that isn’t going to last or purely can’t handle the workload. At this point, the initial investment was for a computer from a big box store at eight hundred dollars. Now that you have to buy a second computer that actually works, you now have to eat that cost and spend fifteen hundred bucks on a computer that is designed for traders. Successful traders know that this is a rookie mistake. The best choice would have been to invest the right amount upfront rather than risk spending a lower amount and not buying the machine you need.

The highest value is in a custom trading computer. This means that you are spending a large amount of your purchase on quality hardware that will be able to withstand the workload of your trading day. Standard retail PCs will force you to pay a price that is mostly profit to the company because the parts are low quality. These big name companies can get away with this because they have a “brand” that consumers recognize. By educating yourself about these dilemmas, you can better protect yourself from falling into this type of trap.

Custom trading computers are often designed and built by traders themselves. The value in these computers also comes from benefiting from their knowledge of testing what works for trading computers. They took the risks to spend money on hardware just to find out in the long run it doesn’t stand up to the task of trading. Because of those experiences, they have