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Thanks Justin, great !

Yeah, beginning of the thread is still the most up-to-date. Just use the spreadsheet for now

New to the group. In the webinar Kyle mentioned that he is updating the hotkeys into a web browser. Just curious if that has been done or is the link at the beginning of this thread still the most up to date? Thanks

Oh I already have Bookmap too and I highly recommend it - but Bookmap does have drawbacks. The biggest is that Bookmap does not yet support the NYSE/ARCA book, so all that data is missing from it. Bookmap is great because it visualizes the L2 tape and gives you a history of the "other side" of the book, allowing you to easily identify areas of liquidity. However, the volume at price function in Bookmap is about the same as in DAS, very difficult to read. I'm excited about trying raindrops as it may finally show me where inside of a candle the volume is. You can read that inside of bookmap too by looking at where the circles are forming, but it's just difficult to read in bookmap. I'll also add that while bookmap does have candlesticks, for the most part they aren't that great. The charting in DAS is much better than bookmap. The value of bookmap lies in the heatmap and the effective histogram of L2 data that the heatmap signifies.

If you scalp like this you should be trading futures anyway, not stocks. I used to have DAS with IB, and IB's API on other platforms. The API, whether FIXAPI or anything else, all the same! Total piece of junk. My fun issue with DAS and IB was that I would end up in a short position randomly, from an order that I cancelled in DAS minutes or hours earlier, but it ended up not being cancelled in IB's system. I would find out later on, when I would be short some amount of shares in a stock I traded earlier in the day! It certainly made me lose all confidence in the situation so I moved on and never looked back.

Ah okay, just be careful bc group trading can alter your thought process. I find it best to work in our Chatroom in the pre-market to get our battle plan ready. When the market opens watch those stocks but if you hear people yelling 'long, weak, nonsense, doing stuff, garbage, ahh ouch, or 'cover cover cover' when you're long' it can be distracting . This is because no two traders are taking the EXACT same trade, you may be taking a slightly different setup with different stops and targets. Then when the dust settle 15 minutes in or so that's when I become more active in the chat. I am saying this with the lightest of heart btw I love our chatroom's charm.

There you have it folks! They don't call him Lee 'The Legend' for nothing lol.

I think most people select tiered. Based on my trade journal, tiered has been less expensive. The DAS site gives direction on how to get the subscription and link it to your IB account. When you go to their site, click SUBSCRIBE at the top. Choose "For Interactive Brokers." The next screen shows the steps. http://dastrader.com/ Also, here's a DAS video on linking them: