Replies to post #35685 on ETF SWING & DAY TRADING

[gloe]

smartone - we have essentially done that with the different length CCIs on the different time frames. The 144 CCI on the 5 min is equivalent to the 48 CCI on the 15 min, but the 144 will give more whips because it is faster. For example, I have seen the 144 go below the +100 for a short, for just one bar, then hook up again (It just happned this morning on ER), while the 48 15 min looks like it never breached the +100. If I had to use just one time frame, I would use the 15 min, and enter the trade at bar close or try entering with 5 minutes left in the bar.

Other than that, I don't have any suggestions.

[gloe]

Smartone - I am responding to an old post. Why can you not use quotetracker charts with a Mac? I e-mailed QT support and they told me lots of people with Macs use QT. You just have to get something like Virtual PC (or virtual windows, I forget what it's called.)

Also, with the new Macs that are using Intel based chips, can you not run windows programs?

Found this article: Running Windows on a Mac: The Latest
By Stephen Williams
When the big news came down in 2006 that Apple would offer a simple method of running Microsoft Windows on some of its Intel-based Macs, it created a buzz heard ‘round the computer community.

The free application download — Boot Camp — was enthusiastically embraced by thousands of Mac-o-philes, some of whom had a genuine need for a complementary Windows system, and some of whom were just curious.

Then there was Joe Kissell, who decided it was a book.

The topic has cooled down, but it continues to intrigue and attract a sizable contingent of Apple customers, so Mr. Kissell and TidBITS Publishing have just issued the third edition of “Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac,” which documents how much has changed since Boot Camp.

What’s most obvious in 2009, Mr. Kissel said from his base in Paris, is that “it’s clear that there’s not a whole lot of interest in Boot Camp anymore. It was cool when it came out, but it’s been eclipsed.”

Now, Mr. Kissell finds, the most productive way to use Windows XP or Vista on an Intel-equipped Macintosh running the Leopard OS, version 10.5 or later — which is every current model — is to install third-party so-called virtualization software, like Parallels Desktop 4.0 Software ($80) and VMware Fusion 2.0 ($80, free trial available).

“Boot Camp is great if you need to get to all your hardware capabilities in the computer, like making full use of memory, the CPU. It works for gamers. For everyone else, Windows runs plenty fast in virtualization, and you don’t have to switch back and forth between Windows and the Mac operating systems,” he said. In all cases, users have to supply their own copy of Windows XP or Vista to install on the Mac.

But why, we asked, even bother with Windows if Mac works for you? As Mr. Kissell points out in his book, there are Mac equivalents of almost every major Windows application.

But there are reasons: the proliferation of games on Windows (sorely lacking for Macs); some Web sites are designed to be viewed in Windows’ Internet Explorer, and Web designers often need to preview their work in a browser like IE. And, he says, “most people have one or two Windows programs that they really have to run that don’t exist for Mac.”

Mr. Kissell details the install requirements and procedures in his book, along with the pros and cons of the virtual Windows software. His next project: a guide to Apple’s coming next-generation OS later this year, Snow Leopard.

Comments:

what needs to be noted is that Bootcamp has one sole reason for existence today (besides the fact that its free) - true hardware support when running PC applications on a mac . Parallels and VMWare just don’t cut it. For example, you can’t even plug in your firewire camera or audio box when in virtual modes. SO…if you are using Protools for example on the PC side because you don’t want to spend a fortune on new plugins, or have some plugs that are PC only, then you are stuck keeping BootCamp installed. Personally, in my A/V studio we don’t use BootCamp anymore to run Vista, except on two machines (one is for video editing and the other sound editing) just in case we need native firewire support on the PC side. The reasons that PD and VMWARE have not included firewire support in their virtual environments is not clear to this egghead. Repeated emails and post on this topic to the PD developers go ignored. Maybe it’s just too darn hard. Well, thx for the article!

— herojig

2. March 23, 2009
5:52 pm

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I am a psychologist and while several psychological test vendors are promising Mac-compatible software for administering and/or scoring the tests I administer, none are out yet. Thus, in my profession and subspecialty of Neuropsychology, one really needs Windows compatibility (in one case, the software has not been updated since Win 98 and so an old HP tower still resides in my office to use for it.

Howard

— Howard Mangel

3. April 8, 2009
10:16 am

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I am running Windows XP on my new 20″ iMac via BootCamp. i’m doing this because I primarily need to work in outlook / excel / office, and the mac versions just aren’t good enough.

Everything works fine, except for one REALLY annoying problem: All my colours are completely messed up! This is doubly frustrating because i work for a design company! Blue fonts randomly come out brown, red colour fonts randomly come out blue - have tried updating drivers, looking at my colour settings but nothing works. PLEASE HELP!!!

— Md
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/running-windows-on-a-mac-the-latest/


thanks
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