When you start analysing more than 50 charts and all futures by the way - then you will know the expediency of having 6 to 8 monitors. Im not talking here about chasing ES rabitts in em bushes
Can you do it with one monitor - yes you can but everyday why strain yourself when you can afford the hardware to make your job easier ?
Shagi, I was only speaking from what I was taught by my mentor(to use 2 monitors) and what I trade(u.s equities). He tells me there is very little to be learned from analyzing 50 different charts while your in a $50k-$250k position. If your in a large position watch the tape not the chart. That's what he told me. If, you had 6-8 monitors of LVIIs that would be NUTS, you have to agree with me there. Perhaps I said those with more monitors don't make money is because I personally don't know many people who have succeeded in that fashion. If you have or know someone, my hats off to you & them.
And how many people have you known? I personally don't know a single millionaire. So I really doubt if anybody can make over a million dollars. Why make fun of what works for other people? I have over 20 monitors. And yes I use them all to help me trade everyday. But I don't make fun of others who use a single monitor, or trade on an I-phone. These hardwares are cheap these days. If 10 additional monitors help you make one winning trade, they are already paid off.
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It's not a ripoff, and the two cores do get used. Assuming you are on Windows, if you open task manager and click the processes tab, you will see a list of say, 30 to 100 processes (programs) running. Most of these programs run in the background, and most of the time most of them are idle. However, any number of them can run (ie do something useful) "simultaneously". The OS continuously assigns tiny timeslots (measured in microseconds or milliseconds) to each program, and assigns one or other core to each in turn. Windows on a dual core can give out two processing timeslots simultaneously, and those two may go to two separate programs or one multithreaded program. So, all the busy programs look like they're running simultaneously, (because they're all getting regular CPU timeslots), although on a dual core only two programs will actually be running on a CPU core at any given instant. Multithreaded may becomes relevant if you have a program that needs very high intensity processing - say running a monte carlo sim, or a game. Then, if the program is multithreaded it can potentially make use of two cores at the same time (subject always to the scheduling). And if the OS doesn't give it two cores simultaneously, the separate threads can still run serially. Multithreaded programs may or may not be written with multiple cores in mind. Probably just as often a multithreaded design is the result of a better organisation/design of the software (think of a realtime trading app - it probably has one controlling thread dealing also with input and output to the screen, and one or more other threads listening for incoming internet traffic. Periodically the two threads will talk to each other and swap data. That is just a sound design, and doesn't require multiple cores. It's analagous on other modern OS. Synergy is nothing to do with dual cores or multithreading - this is just smart software that enables computers to talk to each other and figure out which PC the KB/Mouse input is intended for.
In short lets just say by having the ability to select trades from +50 charts is a major reason why I make or lose or money. I have 6 monitors and I feel i need to increase this to 8. It rapidly increases productivity by increasing the speed at which I do my analysis, this is not to be confused with sending 2000 buy and sell orders in 2minutes.