Bloomberg, ThinkOrSwim, MetaTrader, Sierra Chart, custom Python algos. Six-monitor charting wall on your workstation; one laptop on your desk. Sub-5 ms LAN input, hardware GPU rendering, hotkey trading layouts pass through unchanged.
A discretionary trader hitting a level on the order ladder is racing the rest of the order book. Fifty milliseconds of remote-desktop overhead is not a stylistic preference — it pushes the fill past the level. Remio is engineered for sub-frame keystroke delivery: input rides on its own low-latency channel, not muxed with video, and the host-side input handler injects events at the OS level on the same scheduling tick as the video frame they apply to.
Every key, modifier, and click rides on a low-overhead channel that is separate from the video stream. There is no head-of-line blocking from a slow video packet stalling an input packet. The result is median input latency below one display refresh on a clean network — the keypress is on the workstation before the next frame redraws.
The broker connection runs on the colocated workstation, not on your laptop. The click-to-fill path on the broker's network is unchanged whether you are sitting at the workstation or connected from a hotel room. Remio adds the laptop-to-workstation hop only — the workstation-to-exchange hop, which is the latency that actually fills the order, is untouched.
A discretionary trader's workstation often runs four to eight physical monitors arranged horizontally — one for the order ladder, one for the depth-of-market, one for the news feed, two for fast charts, one for the heatmap, one for the equity curve. Remio captures the entire virtual desktop and gives you three ways to look at it from a single client.
The whole multi-monitor desktop is captured as a single wide image and streamed to the client. The client can pan, zoom, and pinch into any region with trackpad gestures. Best for the trader who wants to see the entire wall on a 16-inch MacBook Pro and zoom into the active chart for a few seconds.
Cycle through monitors with a keyboard shortcut. The client shows one monitor at a time at full resolution — best when you are travelling with an iPad and only need the order ladder visible while monitoring two charts via audio alerts.
Pin a rectangle around the depth-of-market panel or a specific chart, and stream just that region at high frame rate. Useful for a tablet on the couch that needs to monitor one signal without the full bandwidth of the entire wall.
On a Mac client with two external displays, you can split the host's monitor layout across your local displays. The host's monitor 1 goes to your laptop screen, the host's monitor 2 to your external, and so on — preserving spatial muscle memory.
A serious trader has a hotkey layout in muscle memory — F1 for buy-at-bid, F2 for sell-at-ask, Shift-F for cancel-all, Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-8 for size presets. Remio forwards every key, every modifier, and every chord exactly as the workstation's local keyboard would deliver them. Cross-platform clients (Mac to Windows host, iPad to Mac host) preserve the modifier mapping you expect.
By default, a Mac client connecting to a Windows host translates Cmd to Ctrl so that the Mac-side muscle memory for copy/paste/cancel matches. The mapping can be disabled per host if you prefer the raw key — useful when your hotkey layout is built around the raw Windows modifier and the Mac translation gets in the way.
An external keyboard, programmable macro pad (Elgato Stream Deck, Loupedeck CT), or even a USB number pad connected to the client device sends raw HID events to the workstation. Bind any chord or sequence to the macro pad locally and it executes on the host as if the macro pad were plugged into the workstation.
Trading software pushes a lot of fine text and crisp lines through the renderer — depth-of-market ladders, candlestick charts at one-pixel-per-tick, heatmaps with thousands of cells. Remio uses hardware H.265 encoding tuned for screen content, with 4:4:4 chroma sampling when bandwidth allows, so price labels stay sharp and one-pixel chart lines do not bloom.
Heatmap cells stay distinct, gradient colours stay accurate. The hardware encoder uses screen-content tuning that preserves cell boundaries — no soft blur where one ticker meets another in the heatmap grid.
The DOM ladder is dense small text on a dark background. Sub-pixel font hinting from the workstation survives the encode, so price-level numbers stay legible even on a 13-inch laptop screen.
Bloomberg's iconic high-contrast type and ANSI-coloured news ticker render exactly as on the workstation. The TTS news reader plays through on the client with audio synced to the visual highlight.
ATM strategy templates, market replay, and the order-flow add-ons render at the workstation's native frame rate. Tick-by-tick updates stream without smearing — useful for studying entries on a phone during a break.
AWS Workspaces, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Citrix Cloud rent a virtualised workstation in someone else's datacentre and stream its desktop. That model has its place — but if you already own a workstation colocated near the exchange or sitting in your office, paying USD 60-200 per user per month to also rent one is doubling the cost without removing any latency. Remio uses the hardware you already own and adds the laptop-to-workstation hop only.
Cloud workspace GPUs are limited and expensive. A workstation you bought has the GPU you chose, with the chart-rendering pipeline and the Python CUDA stack you have already tuned. Remio preserves the full hardware path — no virtualisation tax on the GPU, no shared tenant scheduler stealing cycles during the open.
Cloud workspaces always route through the provider. Remio prefers a direct peer-to-peer connection between the workstation and your laptop, using a Cloudflare TURN relay only when NAT traversal fails — and even then the relay sees only AES-256 ciphertext. Your order book activity is never visible to a cloud broker, an MSP, or a screen-recording add-on.
Glass-to-glass latency on a wired LAN with an M2 Pro host and an iPad Pro client is around 8 ms; between two wired desktops it is closer to 5 ms. Network round-trip is the dominant variable — wired switch ~0.5 ms, mesh Wi-Fi 3 to 10 ms. The click-to-fill path your broker handles is unchanged because Remio adds the laptop-to-workstation hop only, not the workstation-to-exchange hop.
Yes. Stream all monitors as a single wide canvas (pan and zoom from the client), stream the active monitor, or pin a sub-region. On a Mac client with external displays the host's monitor layout can be split across local displays to preserve spatial muscle memory.
Yes. Every key, modifier, and chord travels on a separate low-latency input channel. ThinkOrSwim hotkey trading, Sierra Chart keybinds, NinjaTrader 8 ATM templates all behave exactly as on the workstation. Cmd-to-Ctrl mapping is automatic Mac-to-Windows but can be disabled per host.
Remio is invisible to your broker. The broker connection runs on the workstation; Remio simply streams pixels and forwards input. SMS, TOTP authenticator, hardware security key (YubiKey plugged into the workstation) — all work normally.
Yes. Audio is streamed alongside video on a synchronised channel. Price alerts, order-fill chimes, and Bloomberg headline TTS play through on the client device. Audio output can also be set to host-local only if you prefer the alerts to stay on the workstation.
AWS Workspaces rent a virtualised desktop at USD 60-200 per user per month with limited GPU options. Remio uses your existing workstation and adds the laptop-to-workstation hop only — no monthly rental, no virtualisation tax on the GPU, no shared tenant scheduler stealing cycles at the open.
Install Remio Host on the workstation that holds the broker connection, the chart layouts, and the algos. Install the client on the laptop you actually carry. Pair with a 6-digit PIN. Same hotkeys, same fills, no monthly rental.