Another Cool Trading Station Setup, 7 Monitor Setup
This isn’t as wild as the 24 monitor trading station I posted earlier today, but it is still pretty cool nonetheless. What I like about this setup is the use of the two monitors angled almost flat in front, imagine if those were touch screen and you were placing trades that way, it’d be basically just like video game, all you need is a headset.
Now the only downfall to this setup is that it looks like he is running two separate computers as you can see by the two glowing key boards and what looks to be dual mouse pads.
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Posted by Blain Reinkensmeyer on August 29, 2007 at 2:44 pm --
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That’s the one I want! Much more eye-pleasing than the last.
It is very similar to what some traders for the bank have. They take order with one computer and do their stuff with the second one. All the other panels are for graphics and stock quote. This is just amazing. A room like this would definitely fit nice in my basement
This is a lot more manageable than that other setup… I think the other setup was 50% for bragging rights and 50% for setting certain stocks on a price target and waiting for the screen to blink a different color to alert the user to the stock price…
I could be wrong. But I like this setup better.
Heh with enough monitors it could even look like windows to the outdoors!
Blain, do you know the cost of such system? I would be curious if it’s affordable for small day traders.
It would be fairly pricey, The biggest I’ve had in the past under one computer was three monitors, I know how to build a quad monitor setup fairly easy. It gets tricky after that, but a quad setup brand new (without monitors) would run around $2k maybe. You get burned in buying all the monitors,
hmm.. this would make for a good post next week, thanks FB.
I manage the IT for a financial company and we recently tried both methods. (One box, with 4 monitors versus 2 boxes with 4 monitors, 2 on each). What the traders noticed was that under the one box system it was too slow during critical phases of the day (and these were high end fast machines!). So we went back to the 2 computer solution. Basically one pc is dedicated to bloomberg and other data feeds, the other is for actual trading orders. He mixes general apps across both pc’s. such as email, word and the like.
It’s far easier to scale out than it is to scale up in this game.
Video cards in the quad range are still nearly $1000 but duals can be had for less than $100. LCD screen are also dropping like crazy so assuming that you went with an ibm workstation for $1000, add the video cards and monitors you’re talking about 3 grand for a decent 2 box system that is rock solid.
YMMV
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It almost looks to me like there’s a laptop sitting there on the right (the second keyboard). Either way, this setup seems much more manageable to me.
Im running Quads at my house, 2 19″ Wides with 2 17″ Wides on the ends, I have the ability to get 12 monitors off of one computer, for about 1500$ not including monitors. my Setup, for gaming cost 1000$
Trading stations are for sheep’s today! I want to incorporate widescreens all over my living room wall (20ft*20ft).. I am talking about, I want to switch from multimedia 24/7 TV news channels to internet trading websites on same screens by using a laptop or cell phone with Bluetooth.. am I talking Chinese here or what
You could run a setup from a notebook instead. I personally prefer the portability. Check out the Zensation Go. It is an all in one setup. Digital Tigers has em.