How to Trade from Work

Don't want IT to know what your doing online? Trading, cruising porn, chatting, whatever you want to do, do it like you were sitting in front of your home computer. All IT can see is that you are accessing a remote computer, they won't know what your doing. It's your own proxy server!!

Use Windows Remote Desktop. This video takes you through a high level of setting this up. Sorry for the crappy quality.

Here is a resource for Remote Desktop Q&A.

An excerpt from the above:

Q. What port does Remote Desktop use? Does everything go over port 3389?

A. Port 3389 is the only port you need to open. Windows will attempt to stream sound through User Datagram Protocol (UDP) first. If no port is available for UDP, sound will stream through a virtual channel in Remote Desktop Protocol, which uses port 3389.

Q. How do I connect Windows Desktop Client to a remote port other than 3389?

A. In the Computer field in the Remote Desktop Client connection dialog, specify the port in either of the following ways:
• Computer name, colon, port number
Example: TSComputer: 22229 • IP address, colon, port number
Example: 192.168.1.1: 22229

Poll

I've added a new poll on the right side of the blog, "Do you trade from work?" This assumes you have a regular day job. Please take the poll, I'll be doing a short video soon on trading from work.

Do you have a questions that would be appropriate for a poll, that would give you a better sense of what other trader are doing? Perhaps "do you use a moving average crossover as part of your trading system?" If you have any suggestions, I'd like to hear them.