[daveyjones]

I want to set up my very own trading war room - not because its practical or necessary, but because it will look incredibly cool. The most important aspect of my war room is, of course, an absolutely ridiculous amount of screen space. So would it be better to buy one very large screen or an array of smaller screens?

I can see the advantage of both. One large screen might be cheaper than multiple smaller screens and you wouldn't have to worry about mounting an array. On the other hand, it might get annoying having to resize each window individually - it would be much snappier just to drag a window to one of the smaller screens and hit the maximize button.

What do you think? Which would you pick?

[sevensa]

Didn't you ask in another thread about how to get a demo account with IB since you don't have the minimum deposit of 10K to open an account? So, you rather spend your money on something that look cool, but is not practical nor necessary instead of spending it to open an account and actual learn something and have potential to make you a better trader?

[AmCan1]

DaveyJones,

I have 4 monitors and I wish I had a couple more. I especially like my Gateway FPD2485W 24 inch because I can rotate it to a portail orientation. It takes a little getting used to but it is a great way to economize desk space. My others are landscape (horizontal) but in hindsight, I wish I just got all Gateways. Then I'd be able to have 6 monitors taking up abou the same space as 4 but with alot more screen space due to the portait orientation. Make sense?

[daveyjones]

Originally Posted by sevensa »

Didn't you ask in another thread about how to get a demo account with IB since you don't have the minimum deposit of 10K to open an account? So, you rather spend your money on something that look cool, but is not practical nor necessary instead of spending it to open an account and actual learn something and have potential to make you a better trader?

I was joking! This post was just for fun. I'm interested to hear about other traders' setup. It's all pie in the sky for me at this point, but hopefully a reality in the future.

[daveyjones]

Originally Posted by AmCan1 »

DaveyJones,

I have 4 monitors and I wish I had a couple more. I especially like my Gateway FPD2485W 24 inch because I can rotate it to a portail orientation. It takes a little getting used to but it is a great way to economize desk space. My others are landscape (horizontal) but in hindsight, I wish I just got all Gateways. Then I'd be able to have 6 monitors taking up abou the same space as 4 but with alot more screen space due to the portait orientation. Make sense?

Thanks for your comments. I'm curious, if you had one massive screen that gave you the same real estate as the six smaller screens, would you rather have that?

[AmCan1]

I like the big screen idea but my question would be about resolution. Just because the monitor is bigger doesn't mean you have more real estate. If the resolution was as tight as my Gateway, that would be real cool. But then, I'd end up wanting 4 of those! lol..

[daveyjones]

Originally Posted by AmCan1 »

I like the big screen idea but my question would be about resolution. Just because the monitor is bigger doesn't mean you have more real estate. If the resolution was as tight as my Gateway, that would be real cool. But then, I'd end up wanting 4 of those! lol..

Good point. I'm usually disappointed with computer resolution on the larger monitors.

[brownsfan019]

If you want flash and something that will wow people when they walk into your room, I've found mounting a bunch of smaller monitors gets the wow factor. I think it's mainly b/c most people would never use something like that and it's like - WOW, look at all those, he must be important. I used to use (but still have) a 6 monitor stand with a 3x3 mount and to this day people get wowed by it.

At one point in my trading I thought I needed all of that too but as time has progressed and my focus has gotten better each year, I use less and less screen real estate to actually trade from. For now that monitor stand and monitors is a showy table decoration.