I recommend to have min. two computers. Read this my actual story and you will see why.

I had technical problems with my main stock trading computer. It happened on Friday and it forced me to reinstall whole computer. It took me 2 days to have my main stock trading computer complete prepared again. During this process I found great solution how to reinstall whole hard disk in a few minutes. So next time it should be easier. I will describe it all in some future post.

But this situation helped me to test my backup solution for entering and management of my trades. I use two computers in my trading home office. I have my main trading notebook and second PC. Second PC I use for monitoring other markets (commodities, Forex) and also for separate stock analysis and another (office) work. I also have installed there my stock trading software for backup.

And as my main computer was not usable, I used my second PC and software installed there. I found that I had to make some layout changes to have it set the same way as on my main trading notebook. But after then I was able to log into software and use it the same way as on my main trading computer. So my backup works!

I recommend to you to have backup solution for your trading computer. You will need it sometimes in your trading carrier.

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