James Rich Young’s Trading Monitor Setup
Explore the desk, its gear and workflow. Choose a setup year, then select a piece of equipment to inspect its role.
Independent study by Niklas Müller. Sources and citation policy
See the gap-review screensThe 2026 setup
Four BenQs in two stacks, a secondary ThinkPad and mouse execution.
Illustrative reconstruction. We aim to match James’s published setup as accurately as possible. Screen notes distinguish what the sources show from example window positions, counts and settings. All trading data is fictional.
Finding the time at James’s desk
Preparation gets its own time before trading begins.
Follows the published weekday routine in Pacific time.
Follow a chart across the desk.
Choose a fictional watch below. Its charts and focus window update together on the monitors.
Open a weekday session to browse the sample watchlist and compare its charts.
What is James looking at?
One symbol, several views. Follow a fictional watch to its daily chart, larger context and quotes. Start with morning gaps, or inspect a carryover, scalp candidate or name from the wider sector universe.
Combined review windows from the earlier premarket walkthrough. The 2026 physical monitor layout is shown separately above. All examples share a 6:15 AM Pacific snapshot.
Fictional stocks and prices
- 01Build the raw gap lists
Scanner + shared worksheet. Gap ups and gap downs are candidates for review.
- 02Filter news and review charts
Remove offerings, ex-dividend moves and buyouts from the main gap watches. Assess the remaining charts.
- 03Choose the favourites
Put the best watches on thumbnail charts, then recheck them near the open.
James starts his walkthrough with QQQ before reviewing individual gappers. Read the market’s direction and nearby levels first.
Downtrend, counter-rally, then a gap below support
- Premarket
- 29.44
- Prior close
- 32.00
- Spread
- 0.03
- Sample PM volume
- 1,300,000
| Bid size | Bid | Ask | Ask size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | 29.43 | 29.46 | 400 |
| 300 | 29.42 | 29.47 | 300 |
| 400 | 29.41 | 29.48 | 200 |
Daily chart: the main decision
Where is the premarket price relative to yesterday, the recent trend, support and resistance? James reviews the candidates one by one here. A large percentage move alone does not make a useful gap.
After reviewing the charts and quotes, why would you watch DUNE, and when would you revisit it?
Watch purpose · Choose any that applyWhen to revisitPurpose labels and revisit times stay independent. Labelling a watch does not add it to either time group.
Three scanning screens. Three different jobs.
These roles describe the scanning tutorial. The monitor archive keeps each physical desk edition tied to its own sources.
- 01 · 5 × 10 · 50 charts
Top watches nearby
The closest scanning display holds favourite gaps, carryover names and scalp watches. A top watch is not necessarily a new gap today.
- 02 · 8 × 7 · 56 charts
The remaining gaps
The next display holds the rest of the gap list. These names may become interesting later if they develop a setup.
- 03 · 8 × 7 · 56 charts
The sector universe
The third display cycles through saved sector and industry lists. It can reveal missed gaps and stocks moving without a morning gap.
An interesting thumbnail moves to the main multiple-timeframe charts for closer review. It can return to the scanning pool if there is no trade.
How this relates to his physical monitors
The premarket video combines chart windows into a recording layout. This original example explains their roles; it does not reproduce a broker interface or one physical display.
The center-right display holds daily, weekly and monthly charts, the gaps watchlist, news and quote data. Intraday charts and execution sit on the center-left. The outer pair holds thumbnail charts.
Inspect the 2022 context screenFour portrait LGs return on the main desk, with a landscape Ark retained for scanning on the left. The December 2023 tutorial explains three scanning jobs, but does not establish the 2024 grid counts or a precise assignment to every LG.
Inspect the 2024 scanning ArkThe left pair holds thumbnails. The upper right has six linked watch charts above stock and QQQ timeframe rows. Level 2, orders and news sit on the lower right. The older review video does not establish where daily, weekly and monthly review windows sit in 2026.
Inspect the 2026 chart screenSelected desk: 2026. This review example stays separate from that year’s monitor assignments.
The charts use Quant Lab’s price generator. Weekly and monthly bars aggregate the same 520 dated sessions by calendar week and month; the illustrative calendar omits exchange holidays. Daily averages use complete trailing windows. Hourly bars reconstruct the last three daily sessions, followed by a fictional premarket snapshot at 6:15 AM Pacific. Symbols, news, quotes and shortlist choices are teaching examples.
A chart workspace of your own.
ChartDeck is our macOS workstation project for IBKR, bringing chart grids, watchlists and visual scanning into one workspace. Explore the idea behind it and try a sample chart grid.
ChartDeck is developed by this site’s owner. James’s desk tour does not establish that he uses it.About this reconstruction
The 2026 tour supplies the four BenQ displays, the raised secondary laptop, the retirement of X-Keys and the updated desk gear. Exact product names come from its published equipment list. The upper BenQs are the older 60 Hz pair; the lower pair runs at 120 Hz with function controls integrated into their thicker gray bottom bezels.
The tour overview shows the screens at rest. The later Real Day In The Life Of A Day Trader video identifies timeframe charts above, Level 2 and order entry below, thumbnail charts to the left and a news feed for gap research. Its 2:44 to 3:14 passage informs the screen regions. The split 90-chart watchlist, eight sample trading panels, exact timeframe labels and small supporting windows remain illustrative. Neither passage identifies the new execution platform or a current risk budget.
The changing windows use James’s published routine as a teaching example for the selected desk. They do not establish the historical schedule for each year or represent a live trading session. Charts, sector groups and linked-watch controls use fictional data.