Using iMAC screen w/a Dell Hybrid desktop

I have a 27"iMac that I was hoping to use for trading. Unfortunately Apple does not support many Software apps that are typically reserved for native PC's. However with the intro of Virtual bridges such as VMware and Parallels, most feel this is an easy fix...IN my case it is proving not to be.
My issue is this, I purchased Parallels 8 to run my PC based NInjaTrader software (for trading). Ninja does NOT recommenbd this however does note in their forum that MAC uses have has success using Parallels or VMWare. I am finding that although Parallels is seamless and does a very nice job for most of my Virtual needs, and frankly other PC Based trading software, it is not giving me the perfomance I need with NinjaTrader perhaps due to my data-laden PC/NT requirements.
SO, I have this Dell Hybrid PC that I'd like to hook up to the iMAC, kick over to Target Display mode and simply let the PC run my native PC-based program so I can stop the issues. Does this sound feasible? I'm just looking for a nice solution that'll remove the inherent "virtual lag" that my MAC/Parallels and NinjaTrader platform is creating vs running NinjaTrader via a true PC-based system. I have it, might as well hook it up?
Thx for any input/experience and/or solutions that you can recommend.
DJ

Because using a Virtual machine allows you to run both operating system at the same time.
With a separate partition you have to shut down one OS to boot to the other OS.
I don't use boot camp because I don't care for Dual Boot systems. I did that years ago with MS Windows, IBM OS2 Warp and Redhat Linux. Every time I was in one OS and I needed to use the other I had to reboot to the other. Then reboot again to get back to the first or to another OS. I settled on using windows as it had all the software I needed.
In other words I can't stand Dual Boot system.
I've never used Paralles so I have no idea which VM software package is better, but then that is usually subjective anyway. Just like which type of system is better, Mac or Windows. For one thing they both use the exact same hardware. There is nothing in a Mac that is not in a Win PC. CPU, GPU, RAM, hard drives and all other hardware is exactly the same. They both to the same thing, read and write data to storage media, run programs so you can actually do something on them and display those programs on a screen. There is no difference. Mac computers have hardware and software problems just like Windows PCs.

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