Hi, I am currently using the BBT DAS Pro simulator. The News tool is not enabled. Can somebody confirm it ? How to get it enabled ? Does the live version have the news tool that can be anchored to the montage ? Thanks, Saoer

Hi BBT fam! i am currently using my high-spec gaming desktop for day trading, however my display card only have 3 ports for display( 2 hdmi and 1 display port). I am planning to upgrade my trading station from 2 monitors to 3 monitors, but I am not planning to buy another pc or another display card.... when I go through BBT’s hardware page I saw the dell universal dock and I notice that it will work even for desktops! Anyone try that before, is it good enough? Are there any latency problem? is it good enough to have a d3000 rather than a d6000? sorry for all those questions, really appreciate any help in advance Edwin

More does not necessarily mean better. I would not want to see any one person lead their own chatroom all day or even for a few hours. It would exhaust that person and can cause overtrading. The heightened required focus of trading for say 1 hour is similar to working 4 hours at a conventional job in my opinion. It's draining. I like the current structure of how the mods have broken out the time slots. Andrew/Brian have mainly traded the open, Norm and Thor continuing trading later in the day using different strategies, Aiman, John, and Jarad jump in as well, with Peter and Mike towards the end of the day with Dr.Katz calming our psyche. However there may be value in seeing how each individual handles trading near the open, and perhaps could have a 'mod lead day' for that now and then.

Hi Sam, I can tell you what I pay. There is a BBT DAS promo where you get all you need for $150/month. $165 if you want the replay feature. https://www.learningdaytrading.com/partnership/bearbull I am on the tiered plan which depending on the volume of shares you trade is generally cheaper than the fixed at 1/2 a penny a share...and definitely cheaper if you trade over 200k shares a month, but could be challenging for new traders keeping it small. It was for me to get that volume... I use the chatroom scanners and their Bezinga alert service if I am trading later in the day, usually I am not but sometimes. So scanners and alert service are free. I am a Lifetime member as that pays for itself within I think a years' time if you were to get your own TI scanners. So a no brainer there. I would only be a month to month member if I thought I could not do it. I don't have that thought. IBKR Pro is what you want, not LITE for day trading. LITE is more for swing trading. I don't think LITE works with DAS? Total fees = Lifetime charge + $150 DAS/month + your commission structure (a quasi charge) I know I was concerned with charges when I first started trading and many will tell you that is the last thing they think about after they start trading live. It's more about keeping it green because that when you are really tested. Hopefully this helps 🙂

I can't speak for the other markets as I only trade and read about the US equity markets. But the authors of a few books I read said that some of these techniques are used across the board (not sure how they hold up now though).

@Justin or @KyleK29 Can I get a quick explanation of the various "ROUTE"s that are used in the hotkeys, and the importance of making sure the right "ROUTE" is selected for certain functions? I have mine set to "LIMIT", but there must be a reason you included the other routes as well. Thanks for your time.

Not sure about the Simulator... My assumption is it isn't available. You can always message DAS Support! It does work for live; but in my personal opinion, it's not the best news aggregator out there. Listening to Benzinga in the chat room is a far more effective.

Thank you very much @Justin . I really appreciate it, very much.

The only perfect trade I ever had was in 5th grade, when I traded a 1989 Bob Tewksbury baseball card for a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card.

One other thing to note is that when you do hit the second hotkey, your order will look like a range order (see picture below). This is actually visually showing your "fill up to" range (Thanks for explaining this Kyle!) This is a little embarrassing, but I think I had this hotkey working quite awhile ago, I just didn't understand what I was seeing! 🤪 I thought it was some kind of weird range order, that the script wasn't working, and so I always cancelled it before triggering and went back to the drawing board! And just going to tag some people who I know were interested in this in another thread: @Travis Weirich @peterB @JenniferL @WindssKat @Ryan Wilson

Thank you Brendon for clearing it up! As a newbie, I try to learn from books, videos etc. but sometimes it's hard to know which information is relative. Good to know old technical analysis books are not outdated. Although it wasn't mentioned in your reply, I take it that I can learn from books etc. that use examples from other markets (like Forex) than stocks too. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Thanks again!

These are great, thanks Matthew. Just one point, on the falling angel, you say in the intro, to go short, I presume you mean long 😉

Yes, that's also in the spreadsheet (although I added the stop order portion from the $ script). This will add 50% to an existing position. So if you're long 100 shares, this will add another 50 shares and reset your stop to break even. CXL ALLSYMB;DefShare=BP*0.97;Share=Pos;SShare=Share *0.5;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=SMRTL;Price= Ask+0.02;TIF=DAY+; BUY=Send;DefShare=400;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:MARKET PX:StopPrice-0 ACT:SELL STOPPRICE:AvgCost QTY:Pos TIF:DAY+;

Thanks a lot Matthew for this awesome compilation.

@Ryan Wilson @WindssKat @JenniferL @Travis Weirich Might have an unexpected surprise related to this one... Stay tuned!

Heck naw, I still reference the Japanese Candlestick books from the 1990s (it may be older than that). Definitely not outdated, we just trade in faster time-frames now and most of the same rules apply, but there might be more factors like HFT, what exchange we are using, Tweeting lol, etc we need to be aware of. The author Steve Nison learned candlestick patterns were used by the Japanese hundreds of years ago...However some strategies may depend on the current state of the market we are in and may work more or less often at times.