good luck if you need some inspiration or help to find what is wrong with your trading checkout this https://open.substack.com/pub/traderpeter/p/why-are-your-losing-days-bigger-than?r=1wujo4&utm_medium=ios or this https://open.substack.com/pub/traderpeter/p/ho-to-find-consistency-in-trading?r=1wujo4&utm_medium=ios

Hi all,  Hoping to use this platform to perfect my process rather focusing on the PnL. The idea is that I am forcing myself to post my trades here, I may start to develop the discipline to trade properly so as to post only "pretty pictures" as Thor calls it. Background: Nearly 5 years into trading (started Sep 2019), yet a consistent loser. Till date: ~$47,000 loss. Somehow I still have hope that I can make it lol Have been jumping from strategy to strategy. Everytime something does not work, I would read up more, watch more webinars to convince myself that "ok now I have sufficient knowledge" to be able to profit consistently. Same cycle repeats itself. Can't go back to SIM because I don't feel the pressure and I go crazy when real money is involved. Wants to join BBT bootcamp, but can't afford it at the moment. Hence using this platform to create some level of discipline instead. Trading CAM pivots with $20 risk per trade. Wish me luck! Claire

yes i talk to DAS developers and do some testing and proposals to them what you describe is easy to acomplish - you just set the variable one time before any trade to set your BP variable then calculate the 1/3rd from there anyway do not focus on the BP much as it can be misleading as you can have other margin requirements not allowing you to take the position. i do not see any logic in it. if you know your BP is 6 times your initial equity then just count the risk from 1/3rd of the initial equity as shown above regarding the other functionality i do not know i am not using shift or arrow keys to navigate and i am not going back to old syntax anyway

@peterB this is awesome, thank you for sharing. I messaged DAS support about this and was told that it may be possible with the new advanced hotkey setting.  I'm assuming that the "hotkey advanced script" must be enabled in the general configuration for these to work. Is that correct? How were you able to figure out the variables or inputs needed for coding the script? Did DAS provide you with that list? I am working on a concept that involves using a % of my buying power to trade multiple tickers at a time. Lets say I want to put 3 trades on at once using 1/3 of my buying power for each trade. The problem with this is that the buying power will reduce by 1/3 after the first position. Then the second position will only be using 1/3 of 2/3 of the initial buying power. I'm wondering if there is an input variable for "initial buying power". If not, I suppose it could be done using "account equity" multiplied by 4 or whatever buying power multiple you have, then divided by 3.  Does that make sense? Side note: while I was messing around with different configurations I enabled the "advanced hotkey" option and then found that the default hotkey functions were disabled like holding "shift" and drag to zoom on chart; or using the directional arrow keys to zoom and scroll a chart.  Is that the same for you?

Yeah,....it was a mod I requested from DAS but got no movement on.   Any mods I request and dont get a fast enough response on I usually look for ways to to code myself using AutoHotKeys...............but some like this one cannot be done.  But tht was in the early days, now more focused on being a CPT.  Thks.