Requesting help to find a simple monitor solution.

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Laissez Faire

Hello all,

I'm currently using a 13.3" ASUS Zenbook with a 14" Lenovo LCD screen. It's great for mobility and travel, but I think it would benefit me to have more work space.

I only trade one product, so I would need one screen for charts and one screen for Excel/MATLAB.

For now, I'm considering either one single 27" screen or two smaller screens. Most likely, I will go for one single 27" screen and rather expand with one extra later on due to limitation on desktop space right now. I might get all I need on that one alone? If not, I also have my laptop.

I've been looking at the 27" Samsung curved displays, but not sure if there's any purpose or value in those? It seems like I might get a Samsung 28" 4K screen for the same price, but the increased resolution might not be desirable after all?

Any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

PS: It will only be used for trading (charts, Excel, Matlab, etc.).

Thanks in advance.
 
Laissez Faire said:
Hello all,

I'm currently using a 13.3" ASUS Zenbook with a 14" Lenovo LCD screen. It's great for mobility and travel, but I think it would benefit me to have more work space.

I only trade one product, so I would need one screen for charts and one screen for Excel/MATLAB.

For now, I'm considering either one single 27" screen or two smaller screens. Most likely, I will go for one single 27" screen and rather expand with one extra later on due to limitation on desktop space right now. I might get all I need on that one alone? If not, I also have my laptop.

I've been looking at the 27" Samsung curved displays, but not sure if there's any purpose or value in those? It seems like I might get a Samsung 28" 4K screen for the same price, but the increased resolution might not be desirable after all?

Any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

PS: It will only be used for trading (charts, Excel, Matlab, etc.).

Thanks in advance.
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In my opinion, 2x24" screens are better than one big one. Curved displays seem like a waste of money for trading. You can mount the display if you don't have desk space.
 
2 screens are better. Cumulatively, you can waste considerable time tiling windows in a single screen every time you launch a new app. There are third party apps to manage tiling, but still a source of superfluous repetitive motion.

It doesn't take more than a few minutes for you to memorize where minimized apps will launch. So, windows toolbar will manage min/max -ing of apps.
 
Nice. Multi-client, too. So, you don't crash the setup surfing pron on another box.

I actually saw a top selling off-brand (phillips-based) with screen partitioning technology on Amazon. Strange, it didn't take off.

If they provided portrait oriented partitioning, we wouldn't have all these silly twisted screens. I should apply for a Dell sales development job. I would make bank. Parumpump!:D
 
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If you don't need them for anything but trading and graphs, forget any aesthetics and go with the cheapest used monitors from craigslist.
Curved is a gimmick, resolution doesn't mean much without considering size/DPI.

I have a 40" 4K, which is equivalent to 4x 20" 1080 panels. Don't go high-res unless the screen is big enough, those 27" 4K panels won't scale the GUI well enough, last I heard.
 
Robert Morse said:
In my opinion, 2x24" screens are better than one big one. Curved displays seem like a waste of money for trading. You can mount the display if you don't have desk space.
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Until you have 34" widescreens wrapping around, then they're fantastic and watch in amazement while everyone still trades in the dark ages.
 
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