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November 8th, 2012, 03:53 PM

What is your setup? I have only a laptop right now. Is desktops or laptops better? One screen or two?

thanks

November 8th, 2012, 04:24 PM

cshrum

What is your setup? I have only a laptop right now. Is desktops or laptops better? One screen or two?

Perhaps you may check out this thread:

Battlestations: Show us your trading desks!

Ran across this article with shots of traders' desks: Wall Street Trading Desks - Business Insider (

If anyone else would like to post a picture of their set up, I would be interested.

My set up at work (attached) is not for trading per se. …

November 9th, 2012, 06:09 AM

@cshrum: There are lot of threads that deal with the subject, no need to start a new one.

Here are some links:

Newbie Infopool: Trading PC, Platform, Books - Recommendations

I am looking at purchasing a PC desktop ( I currently have a Macbook), I am also looking at purchasing trading software or at least a few demos for now. I am just wondering if anyone had any recommendations as to what I should purchase? I am currently …

Current PC Specs

It looks like this topic hasn't been updated for awhile, so maybe this could stand as a new thread.

I have always been a Mac cat, so PC's are fairly alien to me. I run a PC partition on my Macbook so
I don't have a clue as to the hardware …

Hardware lust: trading PC with 6-monitors

I got this from a Google Group of traders I follow. I thought the setup was pretty impressive. Here are the details to do it yourself too if you like.

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Here are 2 picture. I have also included links that I used for my …

Pc Graphics Card

I've just built a new PC and am currently using the old video cards from my old PC. I run 4 monitors now and would maybe add one or two more in the future. If I don't just change to 4 28in. I don't do any gamming so I am wondering if anyone …

Building a PC for Discretionary/Automated Trading and Strategy Development

Approximate Purchase Date: Next week or so
Budget Range: $1200-$1800
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Stock Trading, Streaming videos, Surfing web
Parts Not Required: (e.g.: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS): OS
Preferred Website(s) …

Desktop specs / TradingPC, video cards

I'm seriously in the market to buy a new desktop PC.

I'm running three 19" Samsung screens and NT 7. Cable modem. WIN XP

Tell me what specs this needs and the best place to buy it.

Appreciate your feedback.

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