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To: originunknown who wrote (23995)	12/23/2001 2:32:04 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

A couple of months ago I was shopping for a second monitor for my trading station. I did a bunch of reading, then went to Fry's and looked at dozens of monitors. I ended up buying a no-name 19" CRT for $150. It had decent specs and an adequate image and has worked fine for displaying charts. I was not too happy with the image quality on the TFT monitors and they are quite a bit more expensive. The only advantage in TFT is A) you are rolling in dough and price is no object; B) you are very limited in work space and thus the smaller size of the TFT monitors is vital. My suggestion is go to a store where you can see fifteen or twenty different monitors displaying live images and get a feel for what improvement you get in image quality for the extra dollars.

To: originunknown who wrote (23995)	12/23/2001 3:32:17 PM
From: bosquedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

I would like to know if people here setting up a trading station would buy multiple LCD monitors or CRT monitors. Heat from multiple CRT monitors can be excessive depending on your location. I replaced all of my CRTs with LCD monitors as even with an extra air vent the room stayed hot in the summer. These monitors have come way down in price. They are suppose to be easier on the eyes which is relevant when watching stocks all day. The analog only LCDs are less expensive than the analog/digital LCD monitors. One of the side benefits on my LCD monitors is the ability to hook them to different computers and simply hit the a/b switch on the front of the monitor (NEC multisync LCD 1800 and 1830). I thus have the use of up to 8 viewing screens for the price of 4 plus the cost of the extra cable.