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[Show us your set-up!]

On 6/12/2018 at 6:32 PM, Lee W said:

Nice, Kyle!  Man, you can fit a lot of stuff on that 40”.

Hi kitty!

Yes, it's both good and bad. I bought it for my CAD3d/art/programming workflow, but it's right at the crux of being too big and too small. I should have done a 43" for the proper pixel size (PPI). The 40" is way too hard to balance (hence why the desk is off the wall 6") the viewing distance. Too far and I can't read anything. Too close, I get bad color-shifting and have to shift my head a lot.

Considering trying out an LG 4k curved screen because of it. Just not sure how I'd take to it because the curve can cause lines to be warped. I wish they'd make a monitor that had the central portion flat and then curved the edges like \______/ (except not as severe on the edge, obviously).

[DAS Trader Pro FAQ]

If we want to make a feature suggestion to DAS, do we use the support contact or is there a special contact?

[Show us your set-up!]

Current setup is a 40" 4k screen w/ 1920x1200 24" side monitor. Hockey pucks for stands (I have so many, I use them for everything). It's my engineering setup turned daytrader setup.

Also, a picture of desk cat. 

[Expertkeys EK-20 20 key USB keypad any good?]

On 5/12/2018 at 1:06 AM, vic said:

I'm looking to buy this, is it any good? Should I go for anything else? Thanks for help!

 

Expertkeys EK-20 free programmable 20 key USB keypad / keyboard

I'd say it's not worth it. For way way less you can do a DIY one with an old HID Numpad, some free software, a printer, and some glue (you'd have to print the button icons anyways). They're charging a heavy premium for having translucent key covers over what's just a glorified USB number pad.

This video breaks down what's needed for a DIY approach: 

 

 

Also, didn't mean to post in a new post, but still trying to learn the new forum software.

[Expertkeys EK-20 20 key USB keypad any good?]

 

On 6/11/2018 at 12:41 PM, Aiman Almansoori said:

Hi Jan, how much does this cost?)

If you don't want to spend the $150 and have an extra smartphone (+ Windows PC) you don't use, you can use PowerGrid. It's free software that does a lot of what the Stream Deck does, except via your smartphone screen, so it can do even more (as far as displaying of information).

https://www.roccat.org/en-US/Products/Gaming-Software/Power-Grid/Home/

The Pros:
+ It's free (+ old smartphone)
+ It's very configurable and can display advanced system info, if you use a trading platform with an open API (unfortunately, not DAS), you could display trade info with some programming knowledge.
+ Lots of program presets available.
+ Size is limited to your old device, so if you use an old Fire tablet (for example), you could have *a lot* of hot keys.

The Cons:
- A little bit of a learning curve to setting it up.
- Limited to the haptic feedback of the phone (the vibration motor), you don't get the squishy button feedback.
- Have to make your own stand.

 

[Any SIM for off-hour stock replay ?]

I have an old TD Ameritrade account and played with the ThinkorSwim version (free for TD Ameritrade), it's not nearly as nice / robust as the TradingSim offering. They also disable a lot of stuff in the program when you enable the replay feature, kinda hamstrings you. I kept bumping into "this feature is not available in replay", mainly because they aren't syncing all of the data to that timestamp, but just the chart data tied to the sim. I don't think it even does Time and Sales / Level 2 feeds.

 

Where-as with TradingSim they have all of the stuff sync'd so that you're seeing a datapoint in time. They also offer some watchlists (gap list) built in, which ThinkorSwim does not, so with ToS you'd have to research every day you want to practice while also shielding yourself from spoilers, since it's in the past.