Per the scalping comment, i do a few here and there. I also try and set up some longer trades. For me, just makes it easier to sit down, look over everything, and make some macro/micro decisions. If I had to pull up charting based on intermarket analysis for each item, I'd honestly get too confused. This is also a secondary job to my main IT company, so time to go through 1 by 1 not always doable/practical without this help. As for the video card question, just a bunch of cheapy PNY dual PCI! cards (if you can believe) with i think ATI chipsets/decent memory. like $30 each. Granted I have like 6, but was so cheap, was hard to get more expensive multi-monitor card. There is some lag bottleneck going on with manipulating charts, but is of no concern because my charts are mostly static anyways. I could see the setup costing a lot, but given I had the two machines already, bought cheapy cards, and resell computers (just seperated out the monitors) it was actually quite inexpensive.
"static" being i dont usually change the chart instruments - it actually is in real time! ha and my main trading interface does operate on a much faster video card. Tried with slower setup and I dont recommend when you want that ask price NOW! haha
I like that curved desk - what kind is it? Looks perfect for the 270 degree display in-the-round. -eLindy
Ekornes Taurus Chair Airdesk ASUS G73JW (1920x1200 17.3", Core i7 8GB RAM) Sorry for poor picture quality. This is more of a system-development meditation setup. In retrospect, I'm not sure being as relaxed as possible leads to greater productivity. I'm thinking a task stool at a bench might be better in that regard?
Out of curiosity, which firm do you trade with? I saw similar vertical monitors on the BMO FX trading floor and I'm still not sure which company manufactures those monitors.
Does it matter? You can use any make/model with 16:9 ratio and a VESA mount in the back. Just rotate your wide monitor 90 degree when you mount it and define in Windows (only Win7 starts to support it) the monitors are in portrait mode instead of landscape mode.