FX Market induced problems - when meeting platform minimum requirements is not enough

This is typically reflected by badly optimized trading platform (and there are a lot of them) where a long freeze is experienced during high volatile markets. For example during an important market news your platform will receive so much price ticks that it will either overload your CPU processing capacity or your internet connection, hence induce heavy lag. This will result either in requotes when submitting your trades, or simply platform freezes rendering trading virtually impossible during news.

Most of low end computer have a severe lack of RAM. RAM is like harddisk space where fast accessible temporary data is stock to run any software on the spot (such as a trading platform). If you do not have enough RAM your platform may freeze during market peak time. Your platform may in fact freeze as well even during normal market time if another softwares launches at the same time (ex: while your are submitting an order your antivirus launches for the daily scheduled virus scan).

The prevent this you must increase your RAM whether by investing in new RAM sticks and installing them directly in your computer laptop / desktop or by using a RAM enhancer software. Now there are only two software that I would recommend for that end:

eboostr for Windows XP based systems: http://www.eboostr.com/
Readyboost for Vista based systems: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/readyboost.aspx

Those softwares will enable your computer to use USB sticks the same way it uses RAM sticks. Of course USB sticks storage space is accessed much slower than your RAM sticks, but for low end computers the USB stick access rate will be much higher than the harddrive. Low end computers can experience a very significant speed boost and might help your system avoid long freezes since your softwares data will be stored to be accessed quickly on your USB stick instead on your harddrive.

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