Those of you techys, what are you trading on?

Quote from ZaRockNRolla:

Wow, either your brains are computing on a higher echelon.. or I just don't get your reasoning.

Yes, I'm new to the forum - but you must have sooo much trash pass through here to riff on a such a sincere and harmless post. (I hope that's the case, otherwise it would just be outright rude.)

Reading over some of the other articles, I'm appalled with the level of integrity on this website. You're a forum/community of professional traders, act as such!

.... That being said. I am a tech guy and recreational power abuser, anyone else out there who wants to point me in the direction of a good next choice for MB, or any other gear for that matter, please continue the post(I just picked a aftermarket Asus P6T7 WS - thinking of setting up dual side-by-side rigs with this. One for chart streams and one for execution).

I'm also interested to hear what the PROFESSIONALS on this site are trading with. What some of you infant traders may not know is that hardware is designed for specific purposes, as there have been boards for gaming, there have been boards for trading.

+ Doobs789 - Thanks! I saw the thread at the top of the forum with the photos, but that's not really touching on what I'm looking for (Except the trading desk on the private island, that's got my love)

Depends on your budget and your needs. I just recently purchased a computer and monitors, the discussion regarding it is in the "Trading Computer" thread. While I am not an expert by any means, feel free to ask me any questions.
 
I'm also interested to hear what the PROFESSIONALS on this site are trading with.

I keep track of this in MS Word to see how my systems/software change over the years. Build the towers myself. FWIW, here it is...

Trading system:
Intel 2600K - Asus P8 68V-GEN3 - 16GB RAM Corsair- Intel 320 SSD OS / WD Raptor Storage - (2) x PNY Quadro NVS 300 - Corsair HX750 - Antec P180B - (4) x 24" Samsung PLS 850 Series 1920 x 1200 - 19" Samsung 720p TV (Bloomberg)

Software: Win 7 Pro 64 - IB TWS - CQG Integrated Client - Multicharts - IQFeed - Investor RT PRO - QCollector - Excel - ....


Research - Strategy Development system:
Intel 3930k - Asus P9X79 WS - 32GB RAM Corsair - Intel 520 SSD OS / (2) WD 1TB Storage- (1) PNY Quadro NVS 300 - Corsair HX750 - Antec P180B
* IOGear KVM switches that allows me to use 1 of the 24" LCDs from above array.

Software: Win 7 Pro 64, Multicharts, Matlab R2012b, IPython/SciPy/Numpy/Pandas, Amibroker, IRT Pro, custom utilities.


Travel/Vacation Setup:
Lenovo T530 ThinkPad - Intel i5 3320M - 8GB Hynix - Samsung SSD SATA3 - 15.6" 1920 x 1080 - Win7 Pro 64
(2) ThinkVision LT1421 14" Portable USB LCDs (allows for 4652 total resolution width). All components packed within a medium sized Briggs&Riley business brief for hassle-free portability.

Software: Same as Main Trading
 
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