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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of course you could in theory work with just one screen,

but it is very useful to have several infos available to you at just a glance. comparisons, incoming/outgoing orders, etc.

in my experience once you have worked with two monitors you dont ever want to go back working with just one.

sometimes 2 + a shared “infowall” might be the way to go, or maybe sometimes having three or more screens might be the best way to display all the data they need.

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