Hello all, I'm currently using a 13.3" ASUS Zenbook with a 14" Lenovo LCD screen. It's great for mobility and travel, but I think it would benefit me to have more work space. I only trade one product, so I would need one screen for charts and one screen for Excel/MATLAB. For now, I'm considering either one single 27" screen or two smaller screens. Most likely, I will go for one single 27" screen and rather expand with one extra later on due to limitation on desktop space right now. I might get all I need on that one alone? If not, I also have my laptop. I've been looking at the 27" Samsung curved displays, but not sure if there's any purpose or value in those? It seems like I might get a Samsung 28" 4K screen for the same price, but the increased resolution might not be desirable after all? Any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated. PS: It will only be used for trading (charts, Excel, Matlab, etc.). Thanks in advance.
In my opinion, 2x24" screens are better than one big one. Curved displays seem like a waste of money for trading. You can mount the display if you don't have desk space.
I bought a 42 inch 4k monitor last year and LOVE it. I am able to put up a DOM, two tapes, an "auction vista heatmap" (http://www.jigsawtrading.com/auction-vista-order-flow-heatmap/), a 1/4 screen 70 tick chart and a half screen footprint chart. This monior replaced a four monitor setup. I bought it on Amazon from "wasabi Mango". They use a samsung screen. They also have a 49 inch and 55 inch available.
This is so true. DO NOT BUY A TV to use as a monitor. The screen response time is much slower on a television set. Make sure.
2 screens are better. Cumulatively, you can waste considerable time tiling windows in a single screen every time you launch a new app. There are third party apps to manage tiling, but still a source of superfluous repetitive motion. It doesn't take more than a few minutes for you to memorize where minimized apps will launch. So, windows toolbar will manage min/max -ing of apps.
This is a very slick solution from Dell http://www.pcworld.com/article/3074...-looks-like-one-enormous-43-inch-display.html
Nice. Multi-client, too. So, you don't crash the setup surfing pron on another box. I actually saw a top selling off-brand (phillips-based) with screen partitioning technology on Amazon. Strange, it didn't take off. If they provided portrait oriented partitioning, we wouldn't have all these silly twisted screens. I should apply for a Dell sales development job. I would make bank. Parumpump!
If you don't need them for anything but trading and graphs, forget any aesthetics and go with the cheapest used monitors from craigslist. Curved is a gimmick, resolution doesn't mean much without considering size/DPI. I have a 40" 4K, which is equivalent to 4x 20" 1080 panels. Don't go high-res unless the screen is big enough, those 27" 4K panels won't scale the GUI well enough, last I heard.
Until you have 34" widescreens wrapping around, then they're fantastic and watch in amazement while everyone still trades in the dark ages.