Well I had a nice time at the Outter Banks with my wife celebrating our 3rd Anniversary last week :-D and was looking forward to getting back in the swing of the markets here but ran into some technical difficulties this morning that I have yet to resolve.

I use Ninja Trader as the front end for my Interactive Brokers’ Trader Workstation but the two programs aren’t communicating with each for some reason. I’ve placed some emails to NT support asking for some direction but I rely very heavily on the interface and as such only had the confidence to place a very limited number of trades today, which is just as well anyway given the narrow range for today in anticipation of tomorrows Fed Announcement.

I only hope I’m up and running by then!

I was able to perform a lot of needed PC maintenance today as I was trying to find/fix the problem. I ran across a great little free diagnostic tool called HijackThis You can learn more about it by clicking on the link to the left and download it from Download.com. But basically it allows you detect and remove spyware that your Anti-spyware software misses as well as customize which programs you wish to open upon startup (I really was amazed at how many I had starting up that I didn’t need to be open that were just sucking up resources!)

You will have to read the entire article to get a feel for what you’re doing but I was able to free up quite a bit of space and resources on my PC after putting the time into it. And Dad, if you’re reading this, you especially need to check this out given how slow your computer’s been running as of late! :-)

Good trading tomorrow everyone, should be an interesting day.