me and my setup
U're gonna go a long way!
2021: Pictures Of Your Trading Stations
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U're gonna go a long way!
Back of cabinet needs ventilation holes.
It does, but you can't see them very well.
Ideally I'd have a massive data centre rack but apparently that wouldn't look right in the house
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what do you have each of those computers hooked up to? Can you show your screen setup?
I believe it's a headless set up. He probably just need to SSH in.
Yeah here's my 'screen setup'
I'm fully automated, so apart from the occasional VNC in if the IB gateway / IBC goes down and needs manually restarting I never use the 'screen's on these machines.
There are only 3 'computers' in the cupboard; from top shelf downwards: (out of shot) wireless router, (first in
shot) my older rather underpowered trading server which I now use purely for monitoring purposes, switch, from left to right: modem, NAS, backup storage, then on the bottom shelf two headless trading PCs (live production and backup/test/research). I got these in the last couple of months, they're completely identical: i7-9700, 32GB DDR-4, 1TB SSD (probably not as powerful as most, but I don't need to drive dozens of screens or bloated trading GUIs; my older machine was only a 2 core celeron/ 4GB and still ran everything just fine albeit running reports and so on was a bit slow).
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I am very impressed as I trade manually from a thinkpad and sometime manage positions from android mobile or tablet... not picture worthy.
I find algo trading fascinating but programming is a whole new language for me. I also thought that most successful automatic trading was happening from big companies freezers.
But I can see servers here, some remotely monitored.
Are all of your codes programmed by yourself?
I find algo trading fascinating but programming is a whole new language for me. I also thought that most successful automatic trading was happening from big companies freezers.
But I can see servers here, some remotely monitored.
Are all of your codes programmed by yourself?
Yeah here's my 'screen setup'
I'm fully automated, so apart from the occasional VNC in if the IB gateway / IBC goes down and needs manually restarting I never use the 'screen's on these machines.
There are only 3 'computers' in the cupboard; from top shelf downwards: (out of shot) wireless router, (first in
shot) my older rather underpowered trading server which I now use purely for monitoring purposes, switch, from left to right: modem, NAS, backup storage, then on the bottom shelf two headless trading PCs (live production and backup/test/research). I got these in the last couple of months, they're completely identical: i7-9700, 32GB DDR-4, 1TB SSD (probably not as powerful as most, but I don't need to drive dozens of screens or bloated trading GUIs; my older machine was only a 2 core celeron/ 4GB and still ran everything just fine albeit running reports and so on was a bit slow).
GAT
Argh. I never figured out IB controller. But logging in just once a week to restart my IB gateway seem to deter me from figuring IBC out.
Thank you for sharing your setup! I don't know if this is helpful at all in your case, but you can host a (much flatter!) server in a major datacenter for as little as maybe $120 a month, including electricity and blended Internet, and have zero downtime. Latency is also far better than from typical home service, even if over the same geographic distance -- at least this is true in the US.Yeah here's my 'screen setup'
I'm fully automated, so apart from the occasional VNC in if the IB gateway / IBC goes down and needs manually restarting I never use the 'screen's on these machines.
There are only 3 'computers' in the cupboard; from top shelf downwards: (out of shot) wireless router, (first in
shot) my older rather underpowered trading server which I now use purely for monitoring purposes, switch, from left to right: modem, NAS, backup storage, then on the bottom shelf two headless trading PCs (live production and backup/test/research). I got these in the last couple of months, they're completely identical: i7-9700, 32GB DDR-4, 1TB SSD (probably not as powerful as most, but I don't need to drive dozens of screens or bloated trading GUIs; my older machine was only a 2 core celeron/ 4GB and still ran everything just fine albeit running reports and so on was a bit slow).
GAT