Bet Angel trader's desks & setup's

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CaerMyrddin
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Unlike you guys, I decided to set my desk not against the wall, it looks like you are being punished somehow? :lol:

Imho, it's really important to keep things tidy and clean, I found it helps me getting concentrated.

My setup needs to grow up, as I find I have little space in my desktop, so a third screen is on the cards now.

On the right you can see a white bottle of water that my beloved wife keeps always full and on the left that small yellow book is where I keep all my daily notes and a record of market behaviour.

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superfrank
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cm, what's the artwork on the wall?
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CaerMyrddin
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My wife paints, you can see part of a canvas on the right of the photo.

On the left you can see a small copy of a paint by Roy Lichtenstein, this one:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archive ... tion=false
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Here is mine, dont need too many monitors as we are following the events on LCDs.. An upgrade to pivot monitors are scheduled tough..
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CaerMyrddin
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How many are trading from that room?
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PeterLe
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hi
This is my new setup.
in my day to day job I need to have many applications/windows open and the ability to cut/paste between them. i love the multiple desktops that you can have on a mac and other functions and wanted to get the best from them.
It wasn't cheap to put together but I recon I can save a good 25% in terms of productivity and the hours I 'save' from my day job can be spent on trading :D ...so it's self funded (well thats how I sold it to the Mrs!). I had a good year on Betfair last year, so why not spend a bit!

regards
Peter

PS Although I will eventually get around to listing it on Ebay; i still have have my original set up (Ergotron stand/Samsung Monitors)if anyone is interested in buying them!

Edit: Before you ask "Did you tidy it before the picture was taken"..hell yes! :D
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CaerMyrddin
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It's really a beautiful setup. I'm not into Apple, but they do know how to make things look pretty.

Curiously I immediately recognized that table, I have one on the countryside :)
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PeterLe
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CaerMyrddin wrote:It's really a beautiful setup. I'm not into Apple, but they do know how to make things look pretty.

Curiously I immediately recognized that table, I have one on the countryside :)
Cheers - I think the table was from Ikea!
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CaerMyrddin
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Spot on!
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Euler
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This is my current desk
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LeTiss
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Wow, that's impressive Peter!

What sort of computer do you have in order to service demands like that?
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Euler
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I can't actually remember its a few years old now but supports up to six screens. I'm pretty sure it's a quad core machines with win 64 and 4Gb of Ram. The screen on the bottom right is a touchscreen. I can use a mouse with my left or right hand so in a busy market(s) I can use the mouse and touchscreen almost together to do all I need without having to whizz the mouse across the screen.
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CaerMyrddin wrote:How many are trading from that room?
Two or three, depending on the occasion..
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andyfuller
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I am about to change my setup so will pop up a post on my current setup, perhaps if I can dig out the old pictures I will do one on its evolution.

But in the mean time I was wondering if anyone can offer some advice. I want to run 2 PC's on the same 4 screens. As such I want to be able to switch between which screens are displaying which PCs. I am not too fussed about using the same mouse and keyboards between PC's

So for example I would want PC1 to display on all 4 screens, then have the ability to switch so PC2 now displayed on all 4 screens. Also I would like to have the ability to display PC1 on 2 of the screens and PC2 at the same time display on the other 2 screens.

I have researched this a bit and it looks like I need 4 KVM switches. Is this correct, is there another option? Or is it possible to get just two or perhaps even just one KVM switch to do the job, I guess that would would need 8 inputs (4 feeds from each PC) and 4 outputs (a feed to each of the 4 screens)?

Does anyone have any experience of this?
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superfrank
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you need a switch-box. i used to use them when i had a proper job.

plug all your machines/monitors and mouse/keyboard into it and then just press the switch-box button to change between machines.
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