As mentioned this week in How Not To Buy a Trading Computer, here are the specs for the system I bought a few weeks ago.
It’s working well, and a couple of traders I’m coaching have used this as a reference to buy their own systems.
One of them had an 80% reduction in the time it takes to backtest the entire market with Amibroker compared to their previous system.
The thing I love about this system is that the CPU is liquid-cooled. This means there are no noise-making fans to cool the CPU.
In fact, I completely turned the case fans down so the only fan running is the video card (which is surprisingly quiet), and it stays plenty cool.
The only thing missing from this quote is two SSDs – one for the system drive and one for a separate drive that I’ve dedicated to Amibroker backtesting and market data (which is important).
With this setup, I can backtest 17 years of 1-minute data across the entire market in about 35 minutes.
Here are the specs and prices I paid:
-Dave
