Hi guys, I've been working on a nice dark setup that works for me on InteractiveBrokers TWS platform including : 3 monitors for active trading ( screenshot and XML attached below ) 1 monitor for watchlist + spy + scanner + portfolio Tons of Hotkeys ! And I 've been working heavily to setup hotkeys using Andrews' methodology : Buy long at the Ask + 0.03 Sell short at the Bid - 0.03 I implemented this on IB TWS using a similar approach but using : Buy long at the Ask with limit buy + 0.03 Sell short at the Bid with limit sell - 0.03 (check the screenshots below ) Here are the main hotkeys : (screenshot and XML attached below) New orders generators : Ctrl + [ 1 .... 0 ] : LMT buy at ask limit + 0.03 >> from 100 shares to 1.000 shares Shift + [ 1 .... 0 ] : LMT sell at bid limit - 0.03 >> from 100 shares to 1.000 shares Orders general management : Ctrl + Q : cancel all orders and close full position at market price but you can exit position using the opposite order ( Buy for Shorting and Sell for Longing ) Ctrl + C : cancel all active or pending orders for active chart Ctrl + U : partial placement every X cents with Y exits Ctrl + Enter : submit / transmit / update changes Tab : Select next order (inside chart) Order price changes : Ctrl + Home : move 0.02 up the limit price of the selected order Ctrl + End :move 0.02 down the limit price of the selected order Order size changes : Ctrl + RePag : add 100 shares to the current selected order size Shift + RePag : add 20 shares to the current selected order size Ctrl + AvPag : substract 100 shares to current selected order size Shift + AvPag : substract 20 shares to current selected order size If you have NO position opened yet Right clic on chart + Buy : enter long with $11.000 (default position) at the price selected on the chart after second clic (LMT order) Right clic on chart + Sell : enter short with $11.000 (default position) at the price selected on the chart after second clic (LMT order) Ctrl + S : Stop sell with $11.000 position for a short position at the selected price below current price (if placed above current price will sell inmediately) Ctrl + B : Stop buy with $11.000 position for a long position at the selected price above current price (if placed below current price will sell inmediately) If you have a position already opened Right clic on chart + Buy : close short position with LMT order at the selected price on chart Right clic on chart + Sell : close long position with LMT order at the selected price on chart Ctrl + S : Stop Loss to close a long position at the selected price on chart (whole position) Shift + S : Stop Loss Limit ($0.10 range) to close a long position at the selected price on chart during premarket (whole position) Ctrl + B : Stop Loss to close a short position at the selected price on chart (whole position) Shift + B : Stop Loss Limit ($0.10 range) to close a short position at the selected price on chart during premarket (whole position) New AutoHotKeys Script : ** F4 : Histogram / Volume by price indicator F5 : Refresh chart information F6 : Draw an horizontal line F7 : Remove all the drawings and personal annotation from the chart F8 : Draw fibonacci lines F9 : (De)activate Chart Trader F10 : (De)activate Chart Trader on smaller charts (yes menús are different) F11 : (Un)show completed trades marks F12 : Show window name Youtube video (7m) with fast explanation and examples (spanish with subtitles) : https://youtu.be/1gflAufNMxI Youtube video (1h20m) for the spanish community in BBT (with subtitles) : https://youtu.be/DOSHys3WoRk To access chart hotkey setup : File menu > Global configuration > Charts > ChartTrader > Hotkeys To download this hotkeys and layout : Download the text file attached : tws.txt Change the extension to XML File menu > Layout / Settings Recovery > Custom > Select file Do not forget to save your current setup before for roll back if needed ** AutoHotKey is a Windows Software that provide a simple macro script language to write down any kind of macro process that can be done over and over again. This software is 100% free and independent from TWS, however I managed a way to use a script that will only activate the above function keys on TWS windows. The function will be launched in the window which is inmediately under the mouse pointer, so be sure that the mouse is where it should be if you don't want any other function on TWS to be launched. This Script is very straight foreward and it has some comments inside to let you know what can be done with the keys and menu functions. I personally hated using the context menu or the main manu of the chart and click 3 times just to draw a simple horizontal line, but TWS has no support to many many basic commonly used tasks AND I DECIDED TO WRITE MY OWN 😉 To add on top of it the new AutoHotKey Script : Download and install AutoHotKey 1.33 software from : https://www.autohotkey.com/ Download the Custom Script file for TWS at the end of this post : TWS-AutoHotKeys.txt Open it with some text editor like WordPad, Notepad or SublimeText and check line 30 to add you own TWS Account Number Change the extension to AHK After launching TWS on your Windows PC, double click on the Script icon (which I personally store in the desktop). Last updates : Oct, 25th 2024 - Added two YouTube videos with examples (in Spanish with subtitles) Aug, 29th 2020 - Fixed AutoHotKey macro script to avoid using the macros outside TWS Aug, 28th 2020 - Added base subscriptions screenshot for L1 or SIM Aug, 27th 2020 - Added new Setup file with hotkeys fix If you wanna add option chanin information activate this options detailed here : tws_2020ago.txt TWS-AutoHotKeyScript.txt

I am asked a lot how to buy and send an automatic STOP Loss order all in one hotkey. Try this: ROUTE=SMRTL;Share=BP*0.25;TIF=DAY+;Price=ASK+0.10;BUY=Send;ROUTE=STOP;StopType=Market;StopPrice=AvgCost-0.30;Share=Pos;TIF=DAY+;SELL=Send; What it does? It buys at 25% of your buying power, and then automatically send a stop loss order at AvgCost -30 cent. You can change it anyway you want!

Here is how I export my trades. You need to press "Refresh" every time before exporting.

It's not in trade log... Go to file menu, trade, then open a "trades" window... That's where Norm was right clicking and exporting a file!

Hi Folks My name is Shannon - I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I'm typically a pretty shy person - but thought I'd reach out to the community and see where it leads - I'm quite excited to be a part of the BBT community. I stumbled upon Andrew's book last summer and was immediately drawn to his ability to humbly and clearly communicate information that I find is typically made quite technical and confusing. It led me to the website where I lurked around for a week. Once again I was quite impressed with the humility and helpfulness of not only the moderators - but the entire community. I watched a few trading sessions and browsed through the learning material and decided quite quickly that this was the environment that I wanted to learn to trade - I actually did not even look at any other trading communities - and I became a Lifetime Member. I've spent my entire career of 31 years in emergency services as a paramedic and firefighter. I'm eligible to retire in the next 12 months - not sure exactly when I will - and I've thought several times that Day Trading may be a perfect 2nd career. Fortunately - I have a plenty of time to patiently and systematically learn and practice the material. My dream is to become profitable as a trader so that retirement from my current career is a simple decision - and I can spend more time with my wife and family. Looking forward to this new journey!!

Welcome Matt, I'm in Australia so in a similar situation as the market opens at 1:30am at the moment so can only trade for the first hour or so on a consistent basis during the Australian summer. I think it depends on who you are, if you listen to the moderators they will tell you to find your edge or in other words what suits you. All the moderators trade differently and have different strategies because they all have different strengths. For example Andrew trades the open but Peter says it's not his strength despite wanting to do it better, they are both consistently profitable traders, you don't need to be able to trade every situation/strategy in every minute of the day to be an excellent trader. So while ORB will be difficult for some it's childs play to Andrew and a favoured strategy for many. It might be you like the idea of the open but it might not be your trading edge so try out different things before you settle on a style to try and nail down. We all have different characteristics and abilities in life, I'm in finance by trade, if I'd decided to be an artist, author, tradie or something like that I wouldn't have been very successful, I'm not good at it and was never good at it whereas numbers came relatively easy to me. If you're suited to later in the day then it's better to spend the 3 weeks trading strategies that your good at rather than all 6 weeks on stuff you're not. If you are more suited to the open then great it's suits your availability more. Personally I'm not very good outside the first 30 minutes, I've tried and I don't have the attention span to sit for hours waiting for a setup, I get bored and start taking bad trades to cure the boredom. The fast pace of the open suits me but for others it's chaos and they can't process the information and make decisions fast enough, luckily that works with the time I have available to spend in the market at the moment or I would've had to undertake a much slower process. In terms of strategy I didn't want to limit myself to one specific strategy so I focussed on time of day, for me that's the first 30 minutes and so my trade book is ORB (1&5 minute), Fallen Angel/Rising Devil and ABCD predominately. I don't think there's one best approach for everyone but the advice I took while learning was to spend time overtrading in Sim, investigate and try out different strategies at different times of the day and find out what works for you, develop your edge and trade book, once developed treat the Sim as if it was live (while refining your trade book) and become consistently profitable in Sim before going live. As others have said the education centre is an excellent place to find resources on strategies, trade books, risk management, psychology and all other different aspects of trading, it's a great place to start your journey by working your way through that. Spend time in the chat room listening to the pre market show and during the trading day even if you're not trading, the moderators will often give out nuggets of information about what they're looking at so it's great to just sit and look at what they're looking at to help your development.

After posting this entry, I thought that most of the people in this room using IB would like to replicate the color style used by @Andrew Aziz, @WilliamH, @Norm and @Brian Pez .... so I started tunning my IB TWS platform to look as close as possible to theirs. It took me some time to realize that possitive volume bars and chart bars share the same color spec and cannot be turned white as the background in any way so I used white grey. TWS take contrast into consideration and change your colors even if you don't want to... For sure, there are more thinkgs to change but this is a "beta" version hehe I used 9 20 and 50 EMA + 100 and 200 SMA with a blue VWAP and some pivot points indicators + close of the prev day, all replicating our moderators platforms ... Hope you like them guys ! 🙂 Disclaimer: I won't mantain the white theme hotkeys etc etc .... this was only a prove of concept. settings_tws_white.txt