Upgrading Your Trading Computer with Multiple Monitors
Author: thomasgalvin | Posted: 17.01.2012It can get annoying pretty quickly when you’re trying to click from screen to screen using one monitor, especially when you’re using as many applications that’s needed for the day trading field. If your trading computer doesn’t have multiple monitors already, then you are missing out. Having them makes it much easier to see all of the processes that are going on. You will hardly find a day trader that isn’t using multiple screens for their day trading computer setup.
If you decided to purchase additional monitors for your PC, you should either purchase the same exact model that you currently have or choose another model. Just make sure all the monitors that you’re using are the same exact one. The best way to ensure this is to purchase them all at the same time. The top brands for monitors are Asus and Samsung. You will also need to ensure that the graphics card that you have can offer the best quality for multiple screens. The best brand on the market today is ATI, with its FirePro 2460 OCle 2.0x16 model.
Companies that offer customized day trading computers usually offer the option to have several monitors to be included with your purchase. Trading computers come with high quality components are required. This would include having a fast processor, lots of memory RAM and large amounts of hard drive space. All of this will allow you to operate your trading software at top speeds. Having multiple windows open at one time can slow down the operations of your computer, giving you time delays that can affect the accuracy of your data. Sufficient memory RAM can counter this issue.
Having several computer monitors will give you the visibility of the multiple windows that you have opened, so that you can see them all at once. Laptop computers can’t do this and neither can PCs that have only one monitor. Once you have used multiple computer monitors, you will never go back to the lonely one screen.
You may find that you can upgrade your computer in variety of ways. The more power you want, the more components that will be needed. In the end, you may find it more worthwhile to go to a manufacturer that specializes in building trading computers. There are a variety of web sites where you can purchase trading computers, but not all of them have the best quality brands. Make sure that you don’t get skimped out with a computer that has less speeds than you need for your processor. A lot of sites have PCs that come with the older model i7, but you can do better and pay less.
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