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Trading Setups - A Perspective on Hardware

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There are many, many hardware solutions to trading this is one of ours.

 

Below are shots from one of what we call our "mini-pits" and the desk from which the remote "mini-pits" are monitored.

 

Each of the stations is a Dell Workstation with a quad-core chip and 8 gigs of RAM running Windows 7 driving 8 19" flat monitors.

 

For the internet conncections the LAN here has dual 50 mps cable modems and a 6 mps DSL all feeding into a fault tolerant, load sharing and load balancing router with three input slots.

 

All of the traders regardless of location conference for the entire session via Skype and a Polycom device.

 

This setup includes 4 stations and the machines are placed so the traders cannot easily see the others setups. The idea is that regardless of market all of the traders make their trades alone and then when the session is over they all review each other trades. Trade Alone - Learn Together.

 

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With account linking all of the trades by all of the traders, regardless of location, can be seen in real-time, on charts on these 12 monitors from this control station.

 

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This other perspecitve of the desks shows a glimpse of the Ergotron monitor stands.

 

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Security is important in any trading operation. Here is our head of security and his assistant.

 

 

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All of our traders are poker players and here is a shot of some of our plaques for 1st place finishes in some of the small, local poker tournaments here in Vegas.

 

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cheers

 

UB

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When you're like me, managing your huge positions takes an immense amount of hardware...

 

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As was mentioned before, security is a major concern. My secret super strategy must always be under the most lethal and efficient of guards. It's also imperative that I keep my workspace super clean and organized...

 

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What Graphics Card are you using?

 

A through discussion on hardware would be welcome, as trading software might not benefit from the latest CPU. The I7-920 looks to be an excellent match. I'd rather spend funds on monitors than the box.

 

Also, I was wondering how many monitors I could put on a fold-up table. I think I have my answer.

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What Graphics Card are you using?

 

A through discussion on hardware would be welcome, as trading software might not benefit from the latest CPU. The I7-920 looks to be an excellent match. I'd rather spend funds on monitors than the box.

 

Also, I was wondering how many monitors I could put on a fold-up table. I think I have my answer.

 

In our work we find the processing power and memory to be the the prime consideration as our work requires many levels of processing and graphics driven by dumb data are not much help.

 

With the aid of the Ergotron stands we fit 8 monitors on a 5' table and 12 on a 7' table.

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Pat, Make the trader with the worst P&L each week buy everyone dinner at the Foundation Room on Friday night.......excellent POSITIVE motivation! LOL! ;) I like that security team!

 

Not a bad idea, but for me, it has been so long since I was in Austin, I would happily settle for the original Salt Lick. Last time I was there they only had the one location.

 

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Not a bad idea, but for me, it has been so long since I was in Austin, I would happily settle for the original Salt Lick. Last time I was there they only had the one location.

 

cheers

 

Amen, one of the best reasons to live in Austin. Some would argue the BBQ in Lockhart is better, but I am still partial to the Salt Lick. But yes, they only have one location but they bottle that amazing sauce now. Ok, derail end.

 

My current trading setup:

 

ASUS Eee Family | Easy to Learn, Work and Play

 

Keeping it light!

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