Jason H.

Hi all, I've been in contact with the BBT team. Look for a webinar to be scheduled soon!

Are the new scanners in the members download file?

I’m excited there’s interest! I’ll put a webinar together and either post a Google meet link or ping the admins and see if they want to use the BBT webinar. Give me a few days t get it together.

Will do.

Both great suggestions! I'll get those added in. Stay tuned, I need to figure out when is a good time. Jason

I've had a few people reach out asking for tips and training to set up their hotkeys and StreamDeck for day trading. Rather than continue one-off calls, is there any interest in me putting on a webinar for the community? Topics would include: HotKey set-up for efficiency and minimizing cognitive load Configuring StreamDeck to optimize efficiency and minimize potential HotKey errors Contingency plans for device and internet failures Please let me know if you're interested! A little about me: I'm a part-time day trader and full time Director of User Experience. I've spent most of my career optimizing complex systems to make them easier to learn and use. I've developed design principles to guide other UX designers, and I have successfully applied those same design principles to learning trading.

Bump because folks keep requesting the Google link and they should actually download this here.

Re-thinking this topic. One option that hasn't been mentioned and may be perfect is a dual-boot scenario. Macs support partitioned dual-booting (boot to full windows OR full mac) for free. You'll still need a windows license. I happen to have a mac laptop I need to erase and update, so I will get a copy of windows and test a dual-boot as an option. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468

Hi everyone, I've gotten a ton of requests for my hotkey file and associated StreamDeck icons and I haven't been able to stay on top of all the google drive requests. So I've attached them to this post! Included in the zip file: -Short and long icons for trading sizes for 100 to 10,000 shares -Sell 1/4, 1/2, and ALL size icons -Cancel icons -A couple of custom icons -The Adobe Illustrator template file to make your own -And finally my hotkey file with a specific, logical hotkey defined for each share size in the set. Hope you enjoy! JH-STREAMDECK-ICONS.zip

My full time job is as a User Experience designer. I study users to understand their needs, mental models, and design software that "fits" their brains. One of the key measurements I utilize to evaluate a design is cognitive load. Put simply, cognitive load is how much "brain effort" it takes to learn and understand something. Trading is a very high cognitive load activity. Learning to trade even more so. When I set out to learn trading I immediately looked for ways to eliminate as much "extra" thinking as possible. Hence the streamdeck. Memorizing hot-keys takes effort, and while I'm trying to juggle chart signals, make planning and position-size decisions, and execute good risk management I don't also want to be trying to remember which hot key I set to buy 500 shares. By using the stream deck I don't have to remember, because my hot keys are visual, right in front of my face. Next to my membership here, I'd say the Stream Deck is the best investment I've made in my trading.

It would be nice if we could enable a couple more file types to make sharing easier. Mods?

The icons were done in Illustrator, I've added a share link to the file because the forum doesn't support zip or illustrator file types. Enjoy! Original icon file Jason

Several folks have PMed me asking for my the hotkey file I use with my StreamDeck. I've attached it below. I've organized it logically so there is a single, sequential key set so if my StreamDeck crashes it's not hard to know what combinations to press. I have incremental buy at ask +-.05 and short @ bid+- .05 from 100 to 10000 shares. To use it change the extension from .txt to .htk (the forum doesn't allow .zip or .htk file types...) Hotkey.txt

Hi Ragycpa, I have a hotkey file for DAS and my related hotkey setup in my Stream Deck. Unfortunately right now my trading machine is not accessible because we're in the middle of moving. Once my machine is back up and running I'll post both.

You make hotkeys in DAS, then you create a keyboard shortcut in elgato's configuration app with the correct keystroke.

Hi All, When I'm not day trading I'm a software designer. At the beginning of the year I started developing an app for journalling trades. I had a bit of a hiccup and had to set the project aside, but now I'm back at it. I've put together a survey to learn more about traders various methods of journalling their trades. Please take a moment to tell me more about your journalling process! I'm hoping to build an app that will be helpful to the community! Thanks in advance! https://goo.gl/forms/2arn8J70zgCPJ1352

Those are really nice looking, nice work!

My take: It broke VWAP on the 5 min, but the wicks shot below on the next candle so you didn't have any confirmation of a close above VWAP. Wait for confirmation of a candle opening an closing above VWAP for a sign of a reversal. I read that first chart from the massive drop in the first 5 minute that the ABCD you're seeing isn't there, it's upside down. So the marks where you bought would to me have signalled a potential to short, because it broke down hard at open, continued a downtrend, and pulled back to VWAP, but never confirmed a reversal.

I'm not sure, I've heard a few people have been having trouble getting it to work with DAS. I haven't had an issue, but I also haven't updated the software for 6 months because I've been unable to trade. The general idea is you have to create hotkeys in DAS first, then on the streamdeck create a "keyboard shortcut" action on the button, and choose the same action. My machine is in a box for another month or so but once I get it out and updated I'll see if I can provide more guidance.

I'm not sure why you're having trouble. You shouldn't have to set a DAS specific profile at all. If you use the hotkey fuction in the software you can then record whatever keyboard shortcut you want. I've not set up mine to utilize profile switching, so perhaps that's why you're having an issue? You also still have to set up hotkeys in DAS that match the keyboard shortcut you set in the streamdeck.

I personally like 3 separate tabs. It keeps the chat focused and on-topic. Support specifically used to get lumped into the trade chat and then the off-topic conversation slipped in, This way there are very specific places for each type of discussion. Especially during the first 2 hours when trading is most active, even a single random question in the trade chat can be distracting.

Yes! I've been asked about this a couple times. My machine is currently not available for me to pull the hotkey file out of as my home flooded and we had to start packing our stuff. In a few weeks I'll unbox everything and get the file posted for everyone. For reference, I set up 100-1000 share block keys as CTRL-SHIFT-<number> and short hotkeys in the same denominations as CTRL-Shift-<bottom keyboard rows). I then set my streamdeck to use standard hotkeys. I don't use the app profile switching functionality because I have found it to be unreliable when I bounce quickly from app to app. That may have changed as I haven't been able to trade in the last few months.

Hey FDO, The simplest way is to create hotkeys in DAS and then use the keyboard shortcut option in the streamdeck setup.

Sorry I just saw this! I had a request for my hotkey file and I'm still planning to share it but my trading machine has been dormant for 2 months and I haven't had time to get it back up and running.

This looks really cool. I'm not trading right now but I am signing up for the trial to test it out.