Eli5: why do retail stock traders have several screens and is it necessary to have more than 1 to trade successfully?

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I see so many retail stock traders having 3-4 different screens showing different graphs and charts Is it necessary? It looks so fancy and complicated. Won’t a trader using only 1 screen be successful?

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Yea everyone in our company has at least 3 now, even just people in AR/AP.

Once they use more than one they won’t want to go back to just 1.

Having a lot of things open and on those screens makes people feel like they are getting more done. It’s kind of like managing a flock of sheep, they can see all their sheep working so they feel like they are doing something…

Says the guy staring a 49″ 4K screen with like 20 things open hooked to his laptop..

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