Jump to content

Welcome to the new Traders Laboratory! Please bear with us as we finish the migration over the next few days. If you find any issues, want to leave feedback, get in touch with us, or offer suggestions please post to the Support forum here.

  • Welcome Guests

    Welcome. You are currently viewing the forum as a guest which does not give you access to all the great features at Traders Laboratory such as interacting with members, access to all forums, downloading attachments, and eligibility to win free giveaways. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free. Create a FREE Traders Laboratory account here.

ptop

Camtasia

Recommended Posts

I don't know if this is going to one of my many stupid question on this forum but here we go :) Does or has anyone ever considered using Camtasia to record your trading day and or just your trades so you can go back on them and see what you were thinking and also seeing how to improve upon your trading, or see what you might have missed in a losing trade set up? I got this idea in my funny little brain while watching some of soultraders vids using Camtasia and noticed how small the file sizes are.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Cheers

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

ptop - it's a good idea, give it a whirl and see how you like it. It's a great way to see and hear your trading day. Couple that with your SnagIt chart annotations and that's a good digital journal in my opinion.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

I have a camcorder and recorded the opening 2 hours for a few weeks. Was very cool to watch your day in review and see your indicators telling you what to do --- since you know what will happen next, you can watch the action and see all the things showing you the way that you probably missed the first time around. was very educational. Was also crazy to hear my breathing patterns change when in a position -- had no idea... Come to think of it, I should start doing this again - this was a very useful exercise.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Camtasia studio is an excellent tool to record any activities on the screen, especially using tape reading technique. However you need to be careful while real time trading because Camtasia is very source hungry software. Depends on the size of the window, number of frames per second and memory installed it will dramatically slow your computer performance over time and even freeze after couple hours. Several ways to avoid it – run on the powerful server or just cut recording every hour or so and restart new file.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Camtasia is excellent for making educational presentations, and for many other specific uses involving a clean recording of screen activity. However, you are definitely impacting your CPU, and this is quite possibly not desirable on your trading computer.

 

I second the comment above about using a video cam. I advocate putting your video cam on a tripod, setting the placement and zoom so that the screen will be clearly visible, and letting it run all during your live trading.

 

There are multiple benefits of this, including documenting data lag, software glitches, brokerage errors, and most of all, documenting your own performance. If you talk as you act to provide a running commentary of your actions you will learn alot about your own behavior, and retrospective analysis while offline can help you determine areas for improvement.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

I am using camtasia studio to record whole screen of 3360x1050 (dual 22" LCD). Unchecking "Auto configure" at Tools->Options->Steams->Screen video options and setting "capture frame rate" 3 fames/sec will help to reduce resource usage.

Without it, most of CPU time will be used up by camtasia studo.

Good graphic card is also necessary to reduce CPU usage.

 

I used, Intel Duo 6600(2.4Ghz) CPU, 2GB RAM, ASUS EN7900GS TOP graphic card. Recording consumed less than 20% of CPU.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Thanks actaus, I have the 4.2 version and I believe for me it is in tools option video, What codec are you using to compress vids to?

 

As for hardware I have p 4 3.0 1 gig ram and ati X800 GTO vid card, we shall see if this is good enough.

 

Cheers

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

"TechSmith Screen Capture Codec" is the best, I think, since it is lossless compression and replay quality is the same as it is recorded.

Cons: the file size is a bit large, but Harddisk is also very cheap nowadays.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.