Forex trading with a cheap laptop

I trade using a laptop. From home. I have control of the traffic and noise in that environment. At least most of the time.

You looking to meet other traders to hang out with and discuss and trade? You inquiring about the stability of those wireless connections?

I’m in Toronto. Won’t read into your username that you’re west coast, so let us know.

I suggest you find a way to try it before investing in a laptop. I tried it on two different models and hated it — small screen, small keyboard, track mouse. It probably depends on how comfortable you are working on a laptop in general, and I admit that I do not like them. If I had to trade on a laptop, I would give it up. But maybe that’s just me.

I am also from the VANCOUVER area. TRADING for about a year part time, I trade from a laptop from my home. send me a email and we could set somrthing up. murrayhaynes_5 at at at msn.com

My tuppence worth from West Oz….

I dont like the small screens of laptops and the only time I use one is when I have a power outage. Its my backup. As for trading in a coffee shop, I think that would be far too distracting for me, I like a lot of “quiet” so I can concentrate.

I trade on my Vaio notebook when I’m away from home, and I like to travel so it’s often. I have 6 LCD’s in my setup at home so I get used to the convience of being able to have everything open and viewable at once. A decent tradeoff in MT4 when you’re on your laptop is to have 4 or so charts open per profile (Click where it says default on the bottom bar, for those unfamiliar with the profiles function). I’ll have my trading charts on one, dailys on another and so on. Makes it nice to trade on the laptop and easy to switch between all of them.

I just found it out not too long ago myself. Maybe it was a recent update.

Don’t forget that if you have a docking station, you can have the best of both worlds. The docking station lets your laptop essentially function like a desktop. You can hook up a different monitor, keyboard and mouse peripherals.

Personally, I prefer working on a laptop. Though I just got a new brand and not liking that one as much yet. I get laptops with a larger (15.4″) monitor. Through my docking station I have a second 17″ shared monitor, and I have a wireless mouse set up. I also have a “cool pad” that helps circulate air, and I’ve noticed the fan kicks into high gear less.

I like laptops better because I can always take it with me if needed. (And personally I LOVE the idea of hanging out at a coffee shop, trading. Assuming it’s not hectic in the shop.)
I think the bigger issue is whether you get sufficient performance on a laptop. Unless you’re running one of the newer laptops, you might not have enough processor and memory to run the trading platform well.