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Thanks for the response. This is the kind of question I had, what do you watch and how many screens does it take to watch it. Sounds like you don't use very many. :)

35 seems like a lot of monitors, lol.

Heat is definitely a concern, but I think with charts it shouldn't get hot as it would gaming for example, but we'll see. I hope it lets me run both displaylink and hdmi, I checked around before ordering the MST hubs and it appears it will work, but when the hubs come I will find out. I know...

How many monitors would you recommend for currency trading? I know this is a hardware question, but specifically for currency trading purposes?

I was wondering if anyone here is in the Minneapolis / Twin Cities area. I'm looking at trading currencies, but I've not actually met any currency traders in person. Anyone here know a way to get to know some traders in person in my area?

Will do. :) And yes, I've always traded from home. Maybe some time in the future I will get a commercial office, as they aren't terribly expensive to rent. I just like being at home. I agree, even with three monitors as I did with silver, it was a lot of decompression after a long trading...

Depends on trading style, and no I'm not gonna do what most people do, cram a bunch of charts per monitor. I like to work with full charts, to feel the overall trend. I've done work with fewer monitors already, I tried three 30 inch monitors and it clearly did not allow me to monitor enough...

I used to trade silver futures, and three 1600x1200 pixel 21 inch crt's was plenty. I'm looking at trading currencies, which it seems are rather interdependent, so the more markets you can watch at a time the better it seems. This setup was so cheap I didn't really try to justify it, as I'm not...

Not a bad idea, I'll probably add a second pc sooner or later to the setup, though at this point my backup most likely will be a laptop. However, using two mice to navigate the screens is why I want to set it up to run on one pc, so I can drag things around the monitors, and easily navigate them...

In response to your edit, I'd say that's not gonna happen with an 8 core 4ghz processor, and most of the monitors running on gaming grade video cards. Also, I'm running usb 3.0 on the additional displaylink cards, so those should be pretty fast too I think.

I've seen videos of people that have done this, but no, I don't actually know any other traders in person where I live that have.

Well, I'm working on setting up 14 monitors to run off one pc. Anyone tried this? Seems a bit challenging. I'm waiting on my displayport MST hubs to come so I can run six monitors off each ati radeon video card, and I've got two of them so 12 of them hopefully will run off of the pci express...

(nvm, you use three, lol). What brand mind if I ask? These new dells don't seem to get at all hot, I've checked mine and they seem to run cool.

How many 30" monitors do you have? What brand are you using?

I'll be trading futures or currencies. Not too worried about distractions. :)

I guess it boils down to personal preference, or what you trade. I couldn't function on one small monitor personally.

Thanks for the response, very pretty setup. I've got my three (well two plus a third not in use yet) on a single 6' wooden desk. We'll see what I end up with after I start trading. I'm looking at trading currency futures. Mind if I ask, what chart software are you using pictured?

Thanks for the input, I guess it depends on how many markets watched. I'll check the heat on these, but their the LED models (U3014) so hopefully they wont be running to hot. Definitely like the vertical space they offer, at 1600 pixels. I traded silver mini's in 2006 and three monitors seemed...

opt789, mind if I ask, how do you have your three 1920x1200 monitors setup? I have two 2560x1600 and one 1920x1200 spare (not in use yet). The 1920 monitors are cheap by the looks. I could add a couple more of those. Alternately I'm looking at having just three 2560x1600 if that would be enough.

I'm looking at setting my system up with three 30 inch dell monitors (LED ones run about 1300 a pop). Would this be good enough for active trading, or would you recommend a different setup (say 6 little monitors instead). In my experience, little monitors didn't serve well. When I traded in...