Your Home Trading Station

[Doomberg]

Lol you put a pair of tits on your tradestation?

 

[DashRiprock]

http://www.trade2win.com/boards/t2w...day-2-trading-desk-contest-5.html#post1389512

 

[shadowninja]

 

[Doomberg]

Haha brilliant Dash and Shadow

 

[shadowninja]

(Stolen from Oscar.)

 

[new_trader]

Hey! That's my girlfriend!! The two-timing woman...promised me she would never let anyone else use her laptop!

 

[shadowninja]

 

[new_trader]

I use two laptops:

-1 laptop is my dedicated ES trading laptop
-1 laptop is for everything else - trading, investing, research, fun and profit...etc.

I prefer to use laptops because they have a battery which acts like a UPS in the event of power failure and I have a USB broadband dongle to keep me connected to my broker.

 

[DionysusToast]

Nothing too glamorous here.

1 laptop - 4 screens....

I'm having an office built in the new house and so will probably go for a proper setup at that point but right now this is fine for me.

 

[meanreversion]

That chart on the wall looks like my equity curve, how did you get that data??

 

[DashRiprock]

that yellow hardback underneat your middle screen

is is candlestick charting techniques by steve nison that has been taken out of its sleve?

its a long shot but...

 

[Liquid validity]

Is that straddle trading then

 

[DionysusToast]

that yellow hardback underneat your middle screen

is is candlestick charting techniques by steve nison that has been taken out of its sleve?

its a long shot but...

Yup - I finally found a use for it....

Has to be said - you have some observation skills there...

:clap::clap::clap:

 

[DionysusToast]

That chart on the wall looks like my equity curve, how did you get that data??

We must have similar techniques then...

 

[DashRiprock]

YES!!

I am a rather observant person in real life as well

 

[robster970]

Aspergers?

YES!!

I am a rather observant person in real life as well

 

[DashRiprock]

Aspergers?

no robster thats green stuff that you eat with ham and hollandaise sauce

 

[DionysusToast]

LOL! Got in before me.

I was going to say Broccoli...

 

[robster970]

I'll line em up, you knock em in boys.......

 

[tdrtw]

>> Hey guys just wondering what computers you use for trading...

The machines you see are Pentium 4's, 1 Gig ram, 30 gig Hard Drive, running XP Pro, an Oracle Database and my Java programmed Automatic Trading System's that uses Interactive Brokers Application Programming Interface to connect and make automatic decisions.

The machine on top is the Live Trader. No web surfing, no looking at pawn on it (chess can be played elsewhere , no checking email. It's only function is to trade and nothing else.

The machine on bottom is the backup machine and development box. Code fixes are made here, then deployed on the live machine.

I don't use any monitors. Instead each machine has Logmein loaded on it.

I can remote connect to my live box on my iPhone to make sure nothing bad happens (such as open positions without exit orders due to a malfunction. Only has happened once this year due to incorrect code on my side which was fixed). My ATS day trades futures so it's important to manage the risk associated with it.


>>Now im starting to get more in to short term technical trading, and there has been so many times switching between charts where i have thought "damn, what a cracking set up and i missed that"


If you have the technology skills, I would suggest to create a program to trade for you. I was at a stage similar to you a few years back. It took a good year and half before going fully automatic with much frustration and enjoyment (I still to this day get a kick out of watching it follow my rules and trade It's well worth freeing up your time to do more fun things. Life is short, might as well enjoy it!

Good luck.