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Trading: CL, NQ, YM, 6E, HG, 6J and the list goes on
Posts: 8 since Sep 2014
Thanks Given: 5
Thanks Received: 109
I use a 55" Samsung 4k monitor and 8 24" monitors on 2 PC's. 1 PC I use for reference of markets and the other PC I use for actual trading. The 4k is overkill, but it is utilized for other than just trading so it's dual function. I don't have a million indicators on my screen, I only watch orderflow and volume profile with high probability levels that I manually input myself where I see price moving to, wait for a reaction at those levels and act accordingly only when price reaches those levels, otherwise I sit and wait.
When trading gets boring, that's how you know you're an accomplished trader.
This is my station! I work with Mini S&P here in Brazil.
Basically a SuperDOM with Volume, APQ and Avrg Price.
Also, my wallpaper...We have to be a sniper in the market!
Here is my entry for October battlestation challenge. Man some of these entries are solid, rocking many screens and here i am with a laptop and mouse. but plowing my macbook fans through the rough loads of these softwares for years now. Hopefully they don't die on me
And i have never been more profitable!
Once i started trading i thought the more information i could see the better a trader i would become.
There were some other setups in the time in between then and now and it took some time to adjust myself to the downsizing.
However i will never go back to what i had!
Sometimes less is more!
I am going to upgrade the 2 screens i have now to 1 34" ultra wide screen.
Something like this:
Oh, and of course one with the Futures.io logo and (a part) of me
I made a stand up desk so I am not sitting all the time, nice and sturdy. I have an I7 8700k with 32 gbs of ram,and a Samsung SSD. I also have a tall drafting chair. I like it
Hey 4tison, i appreciate your intent to vote for me, i have traded live using same setup and charts some months ago, but had a good run in May and then broke rules and had a drawdown. So for good month and half took some time off and also had to get my health back in shape. Anyhow then i got back to the screens (end of july) and since then been working on my scalping method for NQ/CL and working on a more structural approach for ES. Currently I am on SIM as I haven't been the same since my last drawdown so i am working on it, even though i haven't changed my charts or method, just tweaks and side experiments on how to better gauge breakouts vs what i like to call a fakeout. I don't have a plan to go live for another 3 months, because i want to have good of a sample size to evaluate my different setups under different market conditions as cleanly executed as possible. I appreciate the vote. Whether me being on sim at the moment changes your mind, then no worries. But I am active on FIO to journal my own progress and learn from other's journaling and share my journey. This contest is a side benefit of being on FIO
But I appreciate your comments on the simplistic nature of my setup. It's been the same since I started, but the laptop hangs often and hence the intention to build a reasonable PC down the road.
I don't want to take up space on this thread, nor derail its purpose, but if you want to see more of how i trade, you can visit my journal as you are an elite member. I will be posting an update tonight for trades taken today (again on SIM). You can check out my images there.
