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  • #21
  • Feb 4, 2017 5:50pm Feb 4, 2017 5:50pm
Obviously this depending on your trading style. I am using a laptop and faced no problem with 4 pairs on H4 with a couple of indicators.

I do agree that you will need a desktop workstation with multiple screens if you are working with multiple pairs and each pair has quite a few indicators power up the screen like a carnival.
  • #22
  • Feb 4, 2017 8:10pm Feb 4, 2017 8:10pm
Quoting Luzbay
Hi all, Hope everyone's had a decent weekend. A quick question around the hardware that you use to trade; I wanted to get a feel for the consensus on the forum -- Do you use a laptop or a desktop to trade? If you use both, which do you use more and do you prefer to plan/research on one more than the other? Cheers, Luzbay.

I do all my trade planning and analysis using my laptop.
But my trades are running in a hosted VPS which I have remote access from my laptop.
Honesty is a very expensive gift. You wont find it in cheap people.WBuffett
  • #23
  • Feb 4, 2017 8:16pm Feb 4, 2017 8:16pm
I ping pong between my laptop, desktop and trading scripts of my servers.
  • #24
  • Feb 5, 2017 11:43pm Feb 5, 2017 11:43pm
I think both the trading are good for trading with Forex. It all depends upon the situations, like if we are travelling from time to time, than we could choose laptop trading else we may trade with desktop while sitting at one place.
  • #25
  • Feb 6, 2017 1:31am Feb 6, 2017 1:31am
Oh my laptop. It's better for me. I can be connected anytime and anywhere. I know that a desktop computer can be more progressive and faster. But why
also I use my phone apps. It's modern style
  • #26
  • Feb 6, 2017 2:51am Feb 6, 2017 2:51am
Laptop running a few different demo and live accounts in separate VMs for strategy development, coding and testing or manual trading. Then I have a mac mini server running production strategies and automated trading. Im thinking of moving this to a hosted server on azure soon however to ensure I have more resiliency and internet interruptions.
  • #27
  • Edited 5:57am Feb 8, 2017 5:28am | Edited 5:57am
Quoting roger44
{quote} Agree. --- Dissipation of electricity : the electricity bill : vanishing of money !!! (Laptop pc wins.) But a desktop pc with a better monitor for charting is a normal environment for me. (some software : image-editor program are not working with windows10 so still use windows vista for charting only.)
the microsoft company they seems to be knowing what i need on my image-editor program,
today they have updated the microsoft visual c++ service pack on my windows10 tablet pc automatically,
so now i can use my image-editor program on windows10 (great !),
so i no needs to worry --- "my old windows-vista desktop pc will be broken as too old and then cannot do my charting".

i can really 100% move to use my windows10 tablet pc from now on.
--------
i have gone to visit the old website of my old free-image-editor program,
they also update the page (previously no more the program):
http://www.freepicturesolutions.com/...n-capture.html

one step backwards from the page:
http://www.freepicturesolutions.com/downloads.html
  • #28
  • Feb 8, 2017 4:24pm Feb 8, 2017 4:24pm
Quoting Luzbay
Hi all, Hope everyone's had a decent weekend. A quick question around the hardware that you use to trade; I wanted to get a feel for the consensus on the forum -- Do you use a laptop or a desktop to trade? If you use both, which do you use more and do you prefer to plan/research on one more than the other? Cheers, Luzbay.
I use a desktop setup. Have been trading with this setup for over a year now. Ideally you require a mid - range gaming pc configuration setup for trading. A muti-monitor setup is preferable but more than 2 monitors is a blatant overkill. No need of those creepy 4 5 6 8 19 inch 20 inch monitor setups. All with different orientation and difervent resolutions. A big no no for the eyes. Two monitors with unequal size and resolution can cause havoc on ur eyes (I am system administrator at my day job and I know what I'm talking)....

Keep two ultra wide monitors setup and that's that. Mid configuration desktop and u r good to go. ..

Btw.. my trading setup configuration:

Single LG 29 ich ultra wide IPS monitor-U58 series
AMD FX 8350 Black edition cpu
Asus 990fx motherboard
16gb ddr3 ram
480gb Toshiba OCZ 150 SSD
2tb seagate HDD 7200RPM
MSI Nvidia Gtx 960 4GB OC GPU
WIN 10 PRO ( Home edition is good if you don't VMs)
Logitech k370 wireless combo
50mbps fibre optics Internet line
Trading platform: MT4

Some of the specs above may be unnecessary for mt4 platform setup but this doubles up as a mid range gaming pc as well. However ultra wide monitor and a fast internet connection are a TRADING MUST.

If you buy a laptop ... you need an additional screen and your laptop specs get outdated in 2 years time. But with a desktop you can keep upgrading as per needs...

Good luck trading!
  • #29
  • Feb 8, 2017 9:02pm Feb 8, 2017 9:02pm
I actually save all my trading apps and stuff onto a USB stick, which I then use to trade on both desktop (at home) and on my laptop (around college). I dislike having to update my analysis on both systems so installing mt4 on my usb stick did the trick
  • #30
  • Feb 8, 2017 10:15pm Feb 8, 2017 10:15pm
i actually want to get a pc on usb so i can just plug it into a monitor or a smart tv so much easier

wendigo
  • #31
  • Feb 8, 2017 10:36pm Feb 8, 2017 10:36pm
Laptop or Desktop it has nothing to do with Forex Trading. You need to understand that Trading will be the same, using the laptop and desktop would be only depending upon the situation.
  • #32
  • Feb 8, 2017 11:01pm Feb 8, 2017 11:01pm
when I am outside, I use my iPhone to trade, but If I can use my desktop, I never use iphone to trade it
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  • #33
  • Feb 9, 2017 12:37am Feb 9, 2017 12:37am
Desktop hands down.

Laptop only as a backup in contingency situation
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  • #34
  • Feb 9, 2017 12:57am Feb 9, 2017 12:57am
Quoting Luzbay
Hi all, Hope everyone's had a decent weekend. A quick question around the hardware that you use to trade; I wanted to get a feel for the consensus on the forum -- Do you use a laptop or a desktop to trade? If you use both, which do you use more and do you prefer to plan/research on one more than the other? Cheers, Luzbay.
No brainer.
  • #35
  • Feb 9, 2017 1:25am Feb 9, 2017 1:25am
Hi to every one i am new here and i prefer to trade on laptoo ot has backup and it also mobile where you want to go with it on tour offical visit etc so desktop have not this
  • #36
  • Feb 9, 2017 2:53pm Feb 9, 2017 2:53pm
Quoting mastery
Obviously this depending on your trading style. I am using a laptop and faced no problem with 4 pairs on H4 with a couple of indicators. I do agree that you will need a desktop workstation with multiple screens if you are working with multiple pairs and each pair has quite a few indicators power up the screen like a carnival.
I don't have problems with desktop set ups, but the only concern I have here is power failure. Though this might be rare, but can't tell, sometimes something might just happen and all memory lost.
  • #37
  • Last Post: Feb 10, 2017 6:54am Feb 10, 2017 6:54am
I vastly prefer a desktop for pretty much everything, Forex trading is no exception.
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