Jim Dean Sage     Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | Most any computer will be fine, if you can set it up separately from your trading and LET IT RUN. You'll need to download all the historical intraday bars for the FL you are testing, ahead of time, then turn OFF the RT connection, then start up SW. That way you can use the main computer to trade with in RT, without having to pay for the data twice. Check with Nirvana re computer specs ... if you're buying a second machine for this, pocketbook limits it probably. I'd say $1500 worth of decent desktop would do it. Make sure you have at least 4G Ram! Re fixed time period ... since RT will not be active during SW tests, yes the time period will be fixed. That will make things go faster as well. BEFORE buying a new machine ... try this at night ... maybe SW will be able to complete its run from 7p to 7a, and there will be no issue. | |
