What is important in a trading platform?

Mtrader said:
What to me is very important is that the buttons you click on (like Buy Market, Sell Market, Buy Bid, Sell Bid, Cancel all, Reverse...) should be BIG ENOUGH.

One of the platforms I use (Firetip) has very small buttons leading to wrong trades as I sometimes click the wrong button as they are very small. I don’t understand how they could make these buttons so small.

Size of the buttons is 28 mm wide and 4 mm high!!!! it is each time a big job try ing to click on the correct button, especially if I have to be quick. And they call it a PROFESSIONAL platform??????
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Did you try using a larger monitor or lowering the resolution?
 
hpe said:
Did you try using a larger monitor or lowering the resolution?
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I travel a lot and use a 17" laptop and a 22" extra screen. Charts on the 22" screen and brokers on the laptop screen. For each broker I have DOM and windows for open and filled orders. If I change the resolution from 1920x1080, things get crowded and not enough space to put everything. Even at 1440x900 the buttons are still less than 5mm high. If I lower resolution till the buttons have a decent size, I will have no place to put anthing else anymore.

But for me it is unbelievable that the buttons are so small. Did the people who designed it ever trade? Or ask advice from somebody who trades? Doubling the height till 8mm would cost only a small space of the screen and at least it would be easier to click on.
I cannot take an extra monitor as it does not fit in my luggage for plane.
 
Mtrader said:
I travel a lot and use a 17" laptop and a 22" extra screen. Charts on the 22" screen and brokers on the laptop screen. For each broker I have DOM and windows for open and filled orders. If I change the resolution from 1920x1080, things get crowded and not enough space to put everything. Even at 1440x900 the buttons are still less than 5mm high. If I lower resolution till the buttons have a decent size, I will have no place to put anthing else anymore.

But for me it is unbelievable that the buttons are so small. Did the people who designed it ever trade? Or ask advice from somebody who trades? Doubling the height till 8mm would cost only a small space of the screen and at least it would be easier to click on.
I cannot take an extra monitor as it does not fit in my luggage for plane.
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I traded on 4, 24" monitors at 1920x1200 and could see fine on what I traded on. Never used a laptop for anything but back up.
 
Robert Morse said:
I traded on 4, 24" monitors at 1920x1200 and could see fine on what I traded on. Never used a laptop for anything but back up.
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I did the same. Till I started to travel a lot.
Charts are not a problem, they are on my 22" screen, the buttons on the trading platform are the problem.

Try to travel 30-50 times a year and carry all this with you in a plane. You will quickly switch to a laptop. Even the 22" monitor was difficult to find as it should fit in handluggage (will never put this in normal luggage as they throw with it).
 
Robert Morse said:
22" is plenty
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Yes, but only one that has a complete wide of less than 50,5 cm which is the inner size of the maximum allowed handluggage. All 22" screen have a wide that is bigger than 50,5 cm, so they don't fit in the luggage.
 
Mtrader said:
Even at 1440x900 the buttons are still less than 5mm high.
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I haven't read the full description of what your button does but in TradeStation you can create buttons to do anything you can write hooks for ...and any size you desire.

mybutton=button.create("button text label", button width, button height");
 
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