A lot of people ask me: Eddie, can I just trade on my laptop?
And you know that’s a good question, but when it comes to trading on a laptop, the single biggest problem I see for traders is that 99% of these machines are optimized for miniaturization and portability. They’re not optimized for power and speed. And certainly not the power that traders need to be successful.
Insufficient Laptop Power
And if you guys have watched my videos before you already know that the computer’s processor, which is the engine of the computer, needs to have a benchmark score of at least 25,000 to avoid slippage. And 99% of the laptops that are out there, simply don’t meet this requirement. Also, most laptops tend to have lower levels of RAM and extremely slow, those old school spinning hard drives.
In the last few years, you may have heard a lot of news about the newest versions of laptops. You may have heard of the Ultra Book or the Microsoft Surface Pro or even a tablet. Well, believe it or not, not even these new models have the required processor speed for trading. These ultra-thin machines were designed specifically for your average computer user. And students who don’t need a ton of processing power. These types of users just need to be able to browse the web, write documents, send emails, and fool around with Facebook. They are not power users like you and me.
Another big problem with laptops is that you have to navigate on a touchpad. I don’t know about you, but I can navigate about 10 times faster with a mouse than on some kind of touch device.
Good News!
The good news is that when it comes to laptops, the latest high-end mobile processors from Intel and AMD are finally fast enough to trade with. And I’m talking about the really high-end stuff. When you combine these high-end mobile processors with a solid state hard drive (SSD), a discrete video card, and you max out the RAM, you actually have a super duper trading laptop for trading.
A great place to see if your computer is really fast enough for trading go to eztradingcomputers.net/cpu and run the processor speed test.
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My name’s Eddie Z. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next video.
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