Trading with Multiple Screens

[BentRod]

WHOOOOA! Got the card installed, got three of the four going....need more power

Cool.

CanOz

N1 Can

:dance::dance::dance:

 

[CanOz]

How bout a photo Canoz? I like to dream of things i may one day be able to afford...

Here you go, very happy with the setup, sorry about the photo, i'll take a better one with the camera on the weekend.

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[BentRod]

Looks good Mate.

Your desk looks similar to mine except I've just got a single one.

 

[CanOz]

Looks good Mate.

Your desk looks similar to mine except I've just got a single one.

Yeah, i love these glass desks. I see Linda Raschke uses them too!

These came with the apartment but we're considering buying them when we go. They're modular too, so we may add more to them.

Thanks for all the help with the setup Bent, TH and everyone else on the thread, really appreciate it.

So when i installed the card, which i had to do first before the driver was installed, i also had to enter into the bios and change the settings back so that the original card overrides the new card. After that it was some fussing around with the settings and res and thats it.

I'll use the center screen to watch for setups in FX with TG help, plus my new system. The other screen on the left is for IB. The screen on the right is for Oanda/Amibroker. The screen on the far right is the Web for ASF, news etc.

Just how i visualized it!

The card and the screens came today.

Its a nice feeling, 4ScreenEstate!

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[Naked shorts]

Just how i visualized it!

The card and the screens came today.

Its a nice feeling, 4ScreenEstate!

Cheers,


CanOz

Nice setup

Your right, it defiantly feels good when you get a sweet setup. I will have to upload a pic of my setup when I finally find a new house.

 

[Pairs Trader]

This is my trading system, old school some may say, some things just never change in my opinion. Thats me on the left waiting for the morning print out of potential pair trades.

 

[Naked shorts]

This is my trading system, old school some may say, some things just never change in my opinion. Thats me on the left waiting for the morning print out of potential pair trades.

What does that big wheel do? Does that allow you to navigate the markets?

 

[Pairs Trader]

What does that big wheel do? Does that allow you to navigate the markets?

Good question, it allows me to quickly shift my portfolio from net long to net short. Swing to the right gets the portfolio net long, left gets me net short. Ive been turning a lot to the left lately.

 

[CanOz]

ROTFLMAO @ Pairs Trader!

Very, very funny mate.

That suit is actually back in style now!

CanOz

 

[rossw]

to you guys with multi-screen setups how do you find the performance of the computer?

I woudl've thought that you'd only want to be running 2-3 screens per PC.. In case of something crashing and you've got something in the market you've still got one machine running as a fail safe, or if you're running a lot of applications (and most charting stuff is fairly taxing) and system performance starts slowing.

 

[CanOz]

to you guys with multi-screen setups how do you find the performance of the computer?

I woudl've thought that you'd only want to be running 2-3 screens per PC.. In case of something crashing and you've got something in the market you've still got one machine running as a fail safe, or if you're running a lot of applications (and most charting stuff is fairly taxing) and system performance starts slowing.

The screens themselves don't hurt performace of the CPU. Running more applications can drain the system of RAM and put pressure on the CPU. You need a system that is capable of handling several apps at once.

The screens just allow a better view of all the apps withour changing windows all the time.

I can run the IB TWS, itself a resource hungry behemoth, Oanda's FX platform, Amibroker Pro with ESignal, Tradeguider RT with Esignal, and firefox with lots of tabs open, plus i run Opera with Bloombergs live TV.

It eats it up no worries. I had troubles before i beefed up the ram by 2Mb. I now run 2.5 MB.

Heck, my new DELL laptop can probably do the same thing, with just the two screens!

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[rossw]

yeah sorry, i meant that with more screens it gives you the chance to run more apps, which leads to more strain on the system

but it seems like that's not an issue for you anyway

 

[CanOz]

I figured it would be good to have a nice desktop to go with the 4 screens. Thanks to Beamstas over on Reef, i now have a unique desktop on the center screen, using RocketDock, and the same wallpaper on the other 3.

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[Naked shorts]

I figured it would be good to have a nice desktop to go with the 4 screens. Thanks to Beamstas over on Reef, i now have a unique desktop on the center screen, using RocketDock, and the same wallpaper on the other 3.

Cheers,


CanOz

looks very nice

 

[Sakk]

I gave up with the old PC and have just upgraded to a Dell XP running i7 with 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 23inch monitor.

Came with Vista 64bit, pain in the rear with some of my older charting programs, have to run as administrator to open them.

Using the old 17inch monitor and the bew 23inch side by side........what a difference, don't think i can ever go back to a single monitor.

Thanks for the help guys

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

I gave up with the old PC and have just upgraded to a Dell XP running i7 with 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 23inch monitor.

Came with Vista 64bit, pain in the rear with some of my older charting programs, have to run as administrator to open them.

Using the old 17inch monitor and the bew 23inch side by side........what a difference, don't think i can ever go back to a single monitor.

Thanks for the help guys

I am curious as to why Vista is problematic. Is 64 bit slower or heavier than 32 bit?
Are you using internet explorer 7?

 

[investorpaul]

Windows 7 is apparently due for release every shortly. Apparently you will need vista to upgrade to W7 though.

 

[Sakk]

I am curious as to why Vista is problematic. Is 64 bit slower or heavier than 32 bit?
Are you using internet explorer 7?

From what I have been told by a tech guy is that 64bit is a little slower.

I use Firefox v3.0.10, surfing is no probs, however had to unistall Zone Alarm as there is an issue with Firefox and Vista 64bit. ZoneAlarm eventually locks out Firefox from the internet and disables Internet Explorer from also connecting to the internet. Can't delete Firefox process from Task Manager to restart, have to reboot the PC.

Installed Comodo instead and works fine.

Have issues running Metastock in normal mode and my end of day data provider software.

Have to run as administrator otherwise i get errors and vista shutsdown the programs...why?...i have no idea..

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

Windows 7 is apparently due for release every shortly. Apparently you will need vista to upgrade to W7 though.

This is good news considering I am about to purchase a vista machine. It's like buying a car without knowing wether the engine will opearate in 5th gear. I don't want "a $2000 e-mail machine" as a Microsoft guy put it a while ago. I already have two of those.

Sakk,
Thanks for the info.

 

[warezwana]

Nothing wrong with Windows7... Well unless your still driving an old P4 CPU with 1Gb RAM (or less)

I have been running it all year with the odd week or so of reverting back to tweaked versions of XP SP3 both 32bit and 64.

As for Vista :couch.... why would someone use that! (I mean Win7 is sooo nice and XP is lighter/faster if your system is old)