Best laptop for trading (with Tradestation)

[Andrea Wylan]

Question RE my laptop and using Tradestation.

I have a new lightweight (what I thought was a pretty loaded 17" LG laptop (core i7). I use Tradestation and find that it freezes on occasion and I cant get my orders in or make changes to charts, etc.

I am not sure honestly if it is a Tradestation issue or lack of my laptop not being powerful enough. I am thinking about trading it for a Dell Alienware laptop. Would welcome suggestions / experience with this.

 

[kinglion]

Could you tell me your exact model?

Other possible issues could be Thermal Throttling.
There is a Tool called HWInfo, you can check your Laptops internal Temperatures.

 

[BAT31]

Alienware came to mind. But before doing that, you should run a performance profile on your computer to determine where the bottleneck is occurring (i.e., is it RAM, CPU, Networking or Disk that is causing the freeze?).

 

[SunTrader]

Also are you asking it to do too much with many doms, T&S, low frequency charts - 1 minute, 50 tick etc etc.

 

[Andrea Wylan]

Could you tell me your exact model?

Other possible issues could be Thermal Throttling.
There is a Tool called HWInfo, you can check your Laptops internal Temperatures.

Yes, it is this:
LG Gram Laptop - 17" IPS WQXGA (2560 x 1600) Intel 10th Gen Core i7 1065G7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB M.2 MVMe SSD (512GB x2), 17 Hour Battery, Thunderbolt 3 - 17Z90N (2020)

 

[Andrea Wylan]

Also are you asking it to do too much with many doms, T&S, low frequency charts - 1 minute, 50 tick etc etc.

I do have about 10 windows open and several charts per window. . .

 

[kinglion]

Please download HWMonitor (https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html)

run your Trading Tools and wait for 5 minutes.

Start HWMonitor and post an screenshot please.

I am 70% sure it is thermal issues

 

[SunTrader]

I do have about 10 windows open and several charts per window. . .

Well if they are high frequency (correction from my previous post saying low) with many indicators and a lot of historical data .... that could be an issue.

 

[comagnum]

If you have an Antivirus or Spyware program running try shutting it down - it can adversely affect TS.

https://www.tradestation.com/best-practices-client-center/

 

[SunTrader]

Yup that too.