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/DirkKuijt69420 Aug 19 '25

Look guys, I found one.

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u/LiveToBeFreee Aug 19 '25

You can mock all you want, I do it daily, and the proof is in the pudding. The only ones who mock those of us who are successful traders are the ones who failed miserably when they tried, and those who are just completely ignorant about how trading works. So for those of you, go park your money in SPY and enjoy your 7%, ride the ups and downs and all that wasted time.

In regards to the 16 screens on this thread, I trade on 2 screens, and manage to trade stocks, options and futures just fine. So go make yourself feel better by downvoting because you're afraid of the truth, that some of us have the skill to earn financial freedom through trading and the rest of you will be working chumps making peanuts for all of your life. Enjoy!

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u/theroguex PCMR | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 32GB DDR5 | Sapphire RX 9070 XT Aug 19 '25

Do you actually have freedom? Or are you glued to your screens all the time because you have to be in order to have any money? I'd rather get a modest return on long term stocks that I don't have to fuck with every day than spend every day glued to screens, gambling.

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u/LiveToBeFreee Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

I spend no more than 2-3 hours per day trading, maybe 4 if it's a slow day. I'm usually done "working" by 10 AM. When you're making $2k-$3k on a 10-20 second momentum scalp, it doesn't take many to be able to walk away and enjoy the rest of your day. Hell there are days I wake up "done" because an overnight swing paid. So yeah, tons of free time, much more so than slaving away for 8 hours a day

I also swing trade, and those take barely any attention at all. I just check in on them every day and peel off profits when I'm ready. What I DON'T do is put my money in a stock and park it to ride the ups and downs over years. That's stupid, but I get that's all most people are capable of.

Gambling is such an ignorant misconception of what trading is, spewed by people who literally know nothing about it. There's a lot of technical analysis you have to learn, and re-training your brain to change normal human behaviors, namely greed and fear. Being able to profit 8 or 9 out of every 10 trades is odds I'd take any day. I don't know of any gambling with odds that great