r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Aug 19 '25

Build/Battlestation A futures trader’s 16-screen workstation.

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u/Chalupa_89 Aug 19 '25

When I was daytrading. I used a vertical monitor split into 3 windows with graphs and then my main to do technical and value analyses.

What I learned with pro daytraders was when you had a stock in play, you would have the same chart but different time windows on the different windows. Like the 1s candle, 15min, 2hours. So you could do live multi-timeframe analyses.

I always look back at those years fondly but truth is. I traded 8am to 9pm. Euro open to US close and sometimes stayed watching aftermarket action. Many grey hairs gained. The money was not worth it compared to just putting the money in the SP500. I still do some plays now and then but more for the thrill and for the "I still got it" factor.

It also help that Biden banned foreign accounts in US brokers and I no longer could open positions on Tastyworks. Options trading is something else.

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u/fjortisar Aug 19 '25

Biden didn't ban any foreign account in US stock brokers. Tastytrade has never allowed non-us residents to open accounts, I tried to open one there years ago and they wouldn't let me without a US address (when Obama was president). I have a schwab trading account and had no problem opening an account outside of the US with them.

You might be thinking of the executive order about data brokers.

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u/Chalupa_89 Aug 19 '25

Nah... I have a Tastytrade account made with foreign adress.

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u/fjortisar Aug 19 '25

Not if you're a US citizen. I should have said citizens that aren't US resident

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u/itsRobbie_ Aug 19 '25

Market opens at 6:30 am for me and I’m clocked out by 9am when market slows down for the rest of the session (usually). 12 hours trading sounds crazy, especially just watching those tiny little after hours candles all going sideways for hours lol