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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I beleive the origins of this perception stem from Bloomberg terminals. Which used to be independent machine running Unix. So they were distinct from the traders own pc/Mac instance.

Now they use multiples because they can. It’s more convenient then tabbing between windows. Though you could. Most day trading is done with algorithm trading now, making trades faster then a human could.

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