2021: Pictures Of Your Trading Stations

[globalarbtrader]

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?

Yes all my own crude code, it's open source, help yourself.

GAT

 

[globalarbtrader]

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.

Yes, I get this argument regularly. Latency isn't an issue for me, but cost wise there's probably not much in it nowadays (given I've probably spent $3000 or so on hardware in the last 8 years of trading my own money, this is roughly my third or fourth 'generation' of machine), but basically I have a fetish for physical hardware...

GAT

 

[cesfx]

Yes all my own crude code, it's open source, help yourself.

GAT

Thank you very much!
I will definitely try to understand more

 

[rb7]

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

No UPS?

 

[globalarbtrader]

No UPS?

No. If I couldn't trade for 2 weeks my backtested Sharpe would fall from about 1 to about 0.99

A power outage of a few hours doesn't bother me.

GAT

 

[igr]

Maybe I've been in California for too long, but ... isn't your house now permanently too hot?

 

[globalarbtrader]

Maybe I've been in California for too long, but ... isn't your house now permanently too hot?

Ha! I see your point, but I live in the UK and it's current 2 degrees centigrade outside, so I'm not concerned with a bit of extra heat.

GAT

 

[jnbadger]

I have another layout which has 5 order entry level 2 windows and corresponding charts that I use in the middle monitor at the open, but this is the one I use most of the day.

 

[jnbadger]

Here's the other layout. /ES, /YM and /NQ on the left. Order entry in the middle. Main Sterling windows, Trade Ideas scanner, and stocks trading on unusual volume on the right. Tablet is used to help keep track of key levels throughout the day.

 

[nursebee]

Here's the other layout. /ES, /YM and /NQ on the left. Order entry in the middle. Main Sterling windows, Trade Ideas scanner, and stocks trading on unusual volume on the right. Tablet is used to help keep track of key levels throughout the day.

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Thanks for what seems to be the first real post. Folks are so friendly around here.

I bet if it was a request for an updated photos r/t Cassie that more real help would have occurred.

I'm on an old HP, not really trading any longer. 27" screen. Internet is slow. Buy and hold has worked for me.