Trading Computers and Slippage

Attention fellow traders! Did you know that over seventy percent of day traders today fail to make as much funds as they could because they are running elderly trading computers with elderly operating systems such as Windows XP & Vista? These elderly trading systems can generate a bottleneck that leads to lag in market knowledge & the high tech, high frequency traders are eating your lunch. Most traders today do not recognize that the main stream processors from or years ago (such as the Core Duo or Pentium) & low levels of RAM can not keep up with today’s mega levels of knowledge flow. This leads to elderly stale market knowledge & something called Slippage. Slippage is when you enter an order but the cost is get filled out is slightly or even significantly different from what you get at. Even a half a second delay in knowledge could great affect your calculations & significantly throw off your trading system; leading to loses, frustration & failure.

The issue with using elderly operating systems in these trading computers is that 98 percent of installed versions of Windows XP & Windows Vista are 32 Bit Versions. The issue with these 32 bit versions is that they generate bottlenecks in trading computers. The largest bottleneck is in memory or RAM. 32 bit operating systems is only designed to make use of about GB of RAM. So even in the event you have 12GB installed, the computer is unable to using it. In today’s multi indicator trading surroundings & traders desire to multitask, this is an immense issue. Most traders require at least 6 GB to freely run all the programs they require to run simultaneously. The second bottleneck comes in the type of video encoders & decoding program used to generate highly graphical charts. 32 bit systems take significantly longer times to generate complicated charts & can lead to additional slippage & missed opportunities. As you can see, running the wrong operating process could lead to a trading catastrophe. As traders they require every feasible advantage that is in our control to succeed.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution for increasing the performance of trading computers. Running a 64 bit operating process such as Windows 7 in conjunctions with an Intel Core i7 processor can fix slippage issues fundamentally.