Trading Desk Setup Tour: Functional not Fancy.

After 30 years I’ve worked on a minimal desk to not-so-minimal desks and lots in between. Here’s my current trading desk as well as software/platforms I use daily. Questions? Leave them in the comments.

Functional not Fancy! Fancy doesn't make you money!

Some are free, some are paid

***I don't recommend anything I don't pay for and use myself.***

F.lux https://justgetflux.com/

Focus At Will https://www.focusatwill.com/app/signUp/o1

Autochairtst http://chartviper.com/simplertrading/

Bookmap https://bookmap.com/members/aff/go/ragheehorner?i=19

TrendSpider https://www.trendspider.com/pricing.php

I did not discuss these but I also use Shift for email and Slack and CCleaner to periodically clean cookies, and such.

As far as brokers - it's a question I get a lot - I feel you should trade with a platform and company your trust, period. Infinity Futures, TradeStation, Think or Swim, TastyWorks, OANDA are companies I have experience with and tell my traders to check out and then go with who you feel is the right fit for you.

I think traders should be fluid and fluent in all markets since no market trades on an island. Currency trading the spot market, daytrading Indices, swing trading and trend following trading and in stocks, ETFs, futures, and options.

You will find that all will have their time in the sun and knowing how to move easily from one to another will serve you well throughout your trading career. I have lived by this: I should be as comfortable trading Apple and Amazon as I am trading the Australian dollar. I should be able to fluidly moves from an idea in the Japanese yen and move into the Dows futures or the DIA ETF or the S&P futures and SPY - because they are all connected and offer confirmation for one another.

It's all the same playground. You could spend your life on the seesaw but why not the monkey bars and slides and swings too.

And when opportunities like bitcoin come around, you will see it's not all that different than what you may have already been doing in the euro and yen and pound.

When you see opportunities in crude oil or gold or bonds you can as easily trade the futures contracts of those markets or the ETF or trade options on either. That's fluidity and fluency...and yeah it can mean you need to educate yourself on those connections and confirmations and that you may want a few more monitors.

So maybe now it makes sense that the real estate of eight 27" monitors makes sense. I can see it all together, moving together, the harmony, the correlations, or the lack of...

I wish you all the best in your trading journey. It has been one of the best things that I have ever chosen to pursue in my life and I am grateful to my ma who got me started in the markets actively at the age of 15.

Thanks ma and thank you all of you who have read this far and I hope it's been of help.

Видео Trading Desk Setup Tour: Functional not Fancy. канала Raghee Horner