No, DX-10 is specialized to games.
:arrow: For trading what you want is bulletproof wireless/LAN first and foremost. Everything else isn't going to mean squat if you get caught in a fast moving contract that the marketmakers pull the stops on and let freefall when you're long or take off when you have it short.
:arrow: Next you are going to want the top of the line LCD with a high refresh rate. Since you are going to be looking at the screen pretty much all day, you want something you can see clearly, especially if you are a technical trader.
.......... :idea: The refresh rate will be "flicker" of the screen. The higher the refresh rate, the less eye strain.
.......... :idea: The brighter the screen the better for "all environments", you should match the lighting in your trading room to the brightness of your screen, and
natural, "grow", or
lightbox style lighting (lighting that simulates sunlight) would be best for that.
.......... :idea: You also want the contrast & brightness even over the screen. Yopu don't want the top left really bright, and the right middle dark, and the bottom right almost the brightest. This will yield eyestrain too.
:arrow: Third you are going to want a decent video card. You don't need top of the line, but you do need something that can update the graphs fast for real-time charting. A nVidia 7600, ATI x1600 is more than enough.
:arrow: You are going to want a large hard drive. You are going to want the hard drive partitioned into 2 partitions, and a boot manager on there.
.......... :idea: The 1st partition will be your normal "computer" O.S. with your trading platform and junk on there.
.......... :idea: The second smaller partition will be an identical O.S. & Trading Platform with nothing else on there.
In this way if you are doing something and a virus, malware, corrupt file/definition, bad disk sector or update for MS hits your system and takes it down, your livelihood isn't effected because you just
switch-over to your "
other computer" right there on the same computer.
You just turn the computer off, turn it back on, boot into your trading platform and go. You fix the other junk later because with what you do, you do not have the luxury of time, nor do you want to be stressed out worrying about fixing something if your system goes down, even if it is the weekend or something else.
I don't know if you trade the night time markets, which you probably do if you are trading currencies on Forex, but this is pretty much a 24 hour gig when you need it to be.
Pretty much, top of the line components and support are a must for traders because again, if it goes down you can't have a month between when you call some tech line finally get someone to RMA it and they "get around to fixing it" and send it back.
:arrow: You are NOT going to want to move to Vista because you want something proven and stable. Trading software can be touchy, and you want something that just works. Vista is a resource hog with unknowns you don't need. If you do move to Vista, the dual partition & O.S. system is the best choice because if Vista messes something up in your crucial programs, and won't un-install youa re right back to where you were on your second partition.
:arrow: A quality disk imaging program to copy the contents of your disk each night to an external drive would be clutch if you are keeping
everything on your notebook like trading records, family pictures, secret codes and cyphers, pictures of naked animals... whatever.
Big box makers like DELL, HP, COMPAQ, and computer distributors aren't going to understand your usage and what you need on things out of the ordinary like high-end gaming, trading platforms, video & audio editing on professional levels, radiologist/MRI rendering interpretation, high-altitude GPS navigation, harsh weather and environmental studies, high-end simulations... things like that. They are going to kick ace if you want an $900 box that has a lot of the same properties as a paperweight though. I have to give them that.
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