Ideal specs for daytrading PC

[Bad_Badness]

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This is with my Tradestation Open with LOADS of Charts when Market opens CPU SPIKES up to 30% and drops to 18% rest of time, b4 930 open its runs at 2% CPU and 24% Ram , when I only had 8GB RAM it ran at 66% Memory

This looks fine. But under fast heavy markets it will be different, even specifically to TS.

 

[maxinger]

I use these for day trading :

INTECL CORE I7-9700 LGA1151
AORUS H370 Gaming 3 Motherboard
Zotac Gaming Geforce GTX 1660, 6GB - quantity 2
memory - 32GB
32" monitors - quantity 5
43" monitor - quantity 1

Internet speed - currently 1 Gbps.
Thinking of upgrading it to 10 Gbps as occassionally during
US session when market is extremely hot, my charts would freeze.

 

[Turveyd]

Games need the performance not the trading.

My I7 gaming rig and 10year old Core 2 Duo both feel the same trading wise, can't be arsed to port my stuff across so C2D till it dies.

Better start I7 pc and let update, windows 10 slows down a lot while its doing updates, must be 6months since I lasted used it.

 

[otctrade]

Internet speed - currently 1 Gbps.
Thinking of upgrading it to 10 Gbps as occassionally during
US session when market is extremely hot, my charts would freeze.

That's gotta be software related. Either on your end or your provider. Are you using Thinkorswim?

 

[Bad_Badness]

Just FYI: Here is my TWS. It is a "pig" compared to everything else, including Edge, which is no small deal. So setting memory to 1 GB would probably not be good.

 

[torewy]

That's gotta be software related. Either on your end or your provider. Are you using Thinkorswim?

I am using Thinkorswim. I just reset the RAM usage on it to a range of 1 to 16 gb. Stay tuned.

 

[henry76]

I scan using sierra chart and I leave it scanning eod for several days , what is the limiting computer factor for speed ? Ram /chip speed?

 

[BlacknBlue]

You want an i7 for multi monitor and 32gb of ram (4x8 is passable so you can raid your current pc) and the newer generation of ssd (forget what it's called). Also go with ultra wides (32-49 or whatever you need) so you don't require as much video cards/slots which may reduce performance and lower the longevity of your computer.

 

[Gekko2020]

The SSD your mentioning i believe is something like this > PCIe R/W is 3430 MBps / 2600 MBps compared to 550 for a standard SSD
<I'm adding the WD Black cause I got it free >
Western Digital WD BLACK SN750 NVMe M.2 2280 500GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 64-layer 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
or
SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS 500GB Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7S500B/AM

 

[henry76]

You want an i7 for multi monitor and 32gb of ram (4x8 is passable so you can raid your current pc) and the newer generation of ssd (forget what it's called). Also go with ultra wides (32-49 or whatever you need) so you don't require as much video cards/slots which may reduce performance and lower the longevity of your computer.

Thanks for reply , but yeh I had realised a higher spec on everything would speed up the scanning , but I suspect there is a specific resource that is the first to reach capacity when scanning , I'd be surprised if it's multi monitor support.Of course with same spec a faster chip will always be faster , but is ram a limiting factor ? ssd does sound helpful though.