How do you know what OP needs for his daytrading? Daytrading can /does need more complex trading plans then LT trading. And futures are also more demanding than just trading stocks.Charts can be the result of 2 lines of code, but they can also be the result of 1 million lines of code. Your 8 screens can be overkill too. Why is Tesla then always using as a sales argument the fact that their cars can do 0-60 in 2 seconds? I think that there is no place in the US where you can do 85 mph or more. In most places an acceleration of 4 second with a Tesla is illegal. Should we then not all buy cars that are limited at 85 mph? And use less huge fuel guzzling engines? Or houses with only 1 or 2 bathrooms, builded on much smaller plots of land. Everything we have is mostly overkill, especially in the US. The overkill in his pc will cost him less than $ 1,000 extra. The overkill in the Tesla, the oversized engines or the houses with 5.5 bathrooms runs in the tenthousands. Who is more silly?
The calculations BEHIND the charts can be very cpu intensive. You should mesure ALL activity the cpu is doing. Charting is just a small part and probably the least charging one. Theoretically a line on a chart can require hours of calculation and have millions of coded lines. All depends on the calculations, the charts can be irrelevant when it concerns cpu power. In NT8 you can monitor the difference between the calculation time of a few lines. I have 2 indicators which take each more calculation time each than all the other lines together on the charts. So the calculation time of each line is important, not how many screens or lines you use.