Currently I use 10 worksheets (one for each instrument: Futures and several currency pairs (Forex)), each with 9 charts (2 min, 3 min, 5 min, 10 min, 15 min, 30 min, 120 min, Daily, Weekly und 60 tick). So finally 70 Live-Charts.
As far as I know NinjaTrader can show only one worksheet, the others are hidden, so I always have to switch if I want to trade another instrument.
I use just a few indicators: Volume, Pivots and 2 own indicators for pattern recognition. Just in the 30 min chart there’s another one for calculation the Value Area. There is currently no backtesting, no strategies and no automated trading, just a lot of live-charts, live-trading.
Currently I work with 2 monitors, I’m going to have 4 very soon, later 6 and finally8 x 24” displays. Pls find attached a sample how one worksheet with all my charts look like - to get an idea what I need. As mentioned, I have 10 of such worksheets open all the time.
PC is going to run 5 days, each day around 14 hours,
Do I need an expensive and professional video card with 2 x 4 ports for this purpose (like the Matrox M9148 PCIe x16 or ATI FirePro 2460 MultiView) or can I buy the cheapest availeble?
There are also some much cheaper consumer cards that can support 2-3 monitors, I could put a few of them into my new PC. Due I don’t have these experience and I just want to see all my charts on several Displays … What is important for NT to pick the best video card for my purposes (best value)? I don’t want to get the cheapest and maybe not the most newest and most expensive, just the one that works best for me.
CPU
Next is to pick the best CPU for my purpose. While reading the forum it seems I better go for highest available speed instead of highest number of cores for example. Can you still confirm that now in 2014? I consider an DualCore i5 or i7 or Xeon E3 with 8 GB RAM. Any advise or optimization which features regarding CPU are most important is appreciated.
Please help me to spend my money into those hardware parts that are most important to run NT most efficiently for my purposes. I need to know how NT works to get an idea what to buy. Thank you!
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