Measuring the Incalculable; Valuing the Intangible!

So I've agreed to spend a fair amount of money to up gun one of my computers to get this trading thing happening seriously. And for the price, I am incredibly happy. The guy I am going through has done a few of my friends computers, and a number of traders, and has a very good track record with this set up.

It's going to have the extra monitor on it obviously, with a new 22" wide screen to go alongside the existing 17". I'll be interested to see how the AMD dual core goes when it comes to the back testing and things. Have only had good experiences with them, as opposed to Intel.

Has anyone else had a computer built specifically for trading? I'd love to hear of your experiences, and what you had built, what you added on or found superfluous. As this one allows for a lot of add ons if I decide it's lacking in a few months.


But hopefully by this time next week, or perhaps earlier, I will have a new toy and perhaps a new love. :)

A lot of noise was made about the Halo 3 release on what Wayne calls, "Bubble Vision". So, I thought I would give my personal experiences of the game, and its potential impacts on Microsoft.

We have (meaning me and my brother) been long time players of the Halo series; completing the first two, and now the third, and routinely having lans for both Halo 1 and 2.

Halo 3 hardly took any time at all to complete, but the in game play is probably not what interests the market nor Microsoft. The multiplayer options, for both online gaming (through x-box live) and through a physical lan set up are impressive. And that's where the money will be made. If new x-box live subscriptions are what they are after, then that is what they will get. The first few nights online were useless simply because of the amount of people hooking in, and therefore, creating massive lag issues. X-box live subscriptions have increased massively since the release of Halo 3. Obviously x-box sales have increased massively as well, but the margins for these are apparently small.

The next step is to evaluate Halo 3 via way of lan, which will draw in the secondary buyers of x-boxes, accessories such as controllers, the game and subsequently other games and subscriptions as well. We have yet to experience this as yet, but we surely will soon.

I'll keep you posted.