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Hello BBT Team I am new and have enjoyed all your videos and training. I am having issue with Hot Key below. I get an error: can't get valid price message. This is the hot button on the Das Trader Pro template in download. Can someone help me what I am doing wrong. See the script below. CXL ALLSYMB;StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=50/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=LIMIT;Price= Ask+0.05;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;Price=Ask-StopPrice*2+Ask;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:RANGE LowPrice:StopPrice HighPrice:Price ACT:SELL QTY:POS TIF:DAY+

Hello community. I have trying to All kinds of hot keys that take buying power + R ratio into a fixed risk dollar amount but continue to get this error message "ERROR: Can't get valid price!" The scripts I am using are from this you tube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPSLj7W-KQA I have even tried Kyle's excel file and with those I get the same error. These scripts are going into buttons into my montage which I have created and I have also tried click to trade via charts which I have also enabled. I am using the 3 month BBT Das trader pro trial Version - 5.6.4.13 Build Time - Jul 1 2021 12:23.01 Any assistance would be most appreciated. Thank you for your time, Adam

ERROR: Can't get valid price For me, this usually happens when a hotkey or hot button is activated when the MONTAGE window has no focus. You can see if the MONTAGE window has focus - it will have a green border. Solution: click on the MONTAGE window to gain focus (it's border green) before a hotkey or hot button is activated.

I am having trouble getting the hotkey to work. It keeps saying can't get valid price. It puts a number in the montage that isn't rounded to the nearest 2 digit cents. Is that problem? I've tried putting price=round2 in the formula but still can't get it to work. Any ideas?

Hi, the short hotkey has been working for me on the short side but the long hot key script hasn't been working at all I kept getting "ERROR: Can't get valid price!" message This is what I have for Long w/out Stop StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=1000/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=MSPOL;Price=Ask+0.05;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;

Hi all, I've had the following RR hotkeys for long and short that have been working and today I'm getting a Error:Can't get valid price. I re confirmed double click on chart is enabled. Broker is TDA Long: ROUTE=STOP;StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=250/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=SMRTL;Price= Ask+0.03;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;Price=Ask-StopPrice*2+Ask;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:RANGE LowPrice:StopPrice HighPrice:Price ACT:SELL QTY:POS TIF:DAY Short: ROUTE=STOP;StopPrice=Price+0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Price-Bid+0.00;SShare=250/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=SMRTL;Price=Bid-0.05;TIF=DAY+;SELL=Send;DefShare=200;Price=StopPrice-Bid*1;Price=Bid-Price;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:RANGE LowPrice:Price HighPrice:StopPrice ACT:BUY QTY:POS TIF:DAY Can not for the life of me figure out why today I'm getting the error issue.

I will suggest you to debug your script with some values for variables AvgCost and Price. Calculate what values you are getting for LowPrice, HighPrice and check if the calculated prices are valid for your range order. You can use Share=Pos; instead of 10, if you don't plan to sell only 10 shares with the range order. Best of luck.

Hi There - I had a Das Trader/bearbull help session yesterday and got setup with the risk based hotkeys. Everything works fine...once - and then I get the 'Cannot Find Valid Price' error on subsequent attempts to use the hotkey (or on the sell side). Hotkeys were setup in a screenshare so not sure where to begin, but here is what I have: CXL ALLSYMB;StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=25/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=LIMIT;Price= Ask+0.05;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;Price=Ask-StopPrice*2+Ask;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:RANGE LowPrice:StopPrice HighPrice:Price ACT:SELL QTY:POS TIF:DAY+ The only thing I noticed is that after execution, the default in montage is set to limit, from market when the trade executes, but don't know enough to know whether that's relevant here. Any help appreciated!

that gives me an error saying "can't get valid price!". but i played around with an excel sheet to try and reverse engineer what is actually going on here with this script and came to the conclusion that this is what I need: StopPrice=ASK*1.01;DefShare=BP*0.97;Price=StopPrice-Ask;SShare=1000/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=CARCAL;Price=ASK;TIF=DAY+;SELL=Send;DefShare=100;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:MARKET PX:StopPrice-0 ACT:BUY STOPPRICE:StopPrice QTY:Pos TIF:DAY+ Can anyone look this over and let me know if this seems to be correct? It appears to work, but I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing or not thinking about that might get me into hot water down the road. Thanks in advance.

I can't seem to use the hotkey for some reason. I keep getting "ERROR: Can't get valid price!" Edit: The hotkey only works for shorting, when I try to use the long hotkey it does not work at all. I copied the hotkey exactly as I saw it so I'm a bit confused on that...If there's a fix for that, please let me know. Also, when I try to use my cover or sell hotkeys, it does not work. It brings up this in the picture and I did manage to find a solution which was going into my montage and changing the type of order from "limit" to "market" and it worked. If there's another way to fix it without doing that, please let me know. I'm trying this in replay by the way.

https://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Guide-Price-Analysis/dp/1491249390/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25LNB7MMLYR9P&dchild=1&keywords=anna+coulling&qid=1615675066&sprefix=Anna+cou%2Caps%2C744&sr=8-1 Still valid. Gets better as you get into it. https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393351599 Definitely. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-Machine-Traders-Rigging/dp/0307887189/ref=pd_sim_3?pd_rd_w=ghLZy&pf_rd_p=dc435707-6f1f-492e-b80d-8408db56abc9&pf_rd_r=0BWGXD8SYAZ7NMK268AJ&pd_rd_r=c7f77ae6-113c-4aff-b86a-1f6967a76eb5&pd_rd_wg=uWZvi&pd_rd_i=0307887189&psc=1 On my list.

Hi guys.. I found Williams youtube video on how to build a hot key for a long and short 1 to 1 risk .... this is the script CXL ALLSYMB;StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=10/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=SMRTL;Price= Ask+0.05;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;Price=Ask-StopPrice*1+Ask;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:RANGE LowPrice:StopPrice HighPrice:Price ACT:SELL QTY:POS TIF:DAY+ BUT when I created a hot button and gave it this script and try in in SIMULATOR I keep getting an error saying "ERROR CAN'T GET VALID PRICE" can someone help? does this script not work in SIM?

Futures (ES) live trading journal 2/10/21 Wednesday. Max loss again today (defined by 3 losses). When I crash and burn after a winning streak in equities, it usually takes a week of sloppy trading before I recover. It looks like it will be the same with Futures. I have tried, with equities, taking time off and trading in SIM (for over a week) after a winning streak. But it doesn't work. Once I go back live (with lower risk) I trade sloppy for a week, then recover. So a have a couple more days to go. What is interesting is I am doing really well with equities this week. So my mind really has the two instruments separate. The market open with some momentum down. I thought the momentum was too weak to trade so I let the test trade setup go by and missed the huge drop. Feeling pretty high on the FOMO I waited for another setup. A really pretty test trade setup occurred at 10:30am EST with strong downward momentum and a strong pull back. My order was not filled and the price dropped to the outer band (red line). By my rule once the outer band is touched the setup is gone. The price moved back up and gave a really nice entry, which by my rule I didn't take. Then the price dropped and reached my target. So now the FOMO is getting really strong. So when a "Test-Retest" setup (essentially a double bottom) occurred I went long even though the entrance is in the middle 1/3 of the range. Thus, by rule it is no longer a valid setup. But I took it anyway and was stopped out. Then the price dropped again with a strong pullback. It gave me an entry and I shorted. By rule the first task that needs to be done after the entrance is set the limit order at the target. I usually have several minutes to do this, but you never know. So mistake number two of the day is I waited a few seconds before setting the order and in a few seconds the price dropped and reached my target and pulled back. I missed it. Then mistake number 3, by rule after the price reaches your conservative target you must place your stop at B/E. But trying to salvage the trade I gave it some room and was stopped out. Then I was away from my computer for two hours and missed a winning Test-Retest trade. So FOMO is now at boiling levels. So when another Test-Retest trade was setting up 10 minutes before 2pm I took it even though I know Powell was speaking and taking any trade at that time is a major rule break. So as expected I got stopped out moments after the speech started. I hope everyone is trading well today. Rob C

Just as a general note. I wouldn't do the price=ask; at the end of the entry script. DAS has quite a few toggle-able options that will erase this once the order executes it (different resets, e.g. reset price on execution). It can also be erased if you switch to a different symbol, enter another trade, and/or switch back. It can lead to this "can't get valid price" error. Since the way you suggested is a pair hotkey (one for entry, and one for taking profit). You can use Price=AvgCost; at the beginning of the take-profit hotkey instead .. that will get the exact price value without having to worry about the montage keeping it. You mentioned above that you're using the dynamic $Risk hotkeys to enter the position. If you are, then this would be best to do it as a factor of R, this normalizes the hotkeys to get best results. Example: - You enter a position with $50 risk at $10.00, stop is at 9.50. This purchases 100 shares. 1R = $50 With this in mind, for you to realize a take-profit of $100 you would either need to sell 100% of the position at $11.00 (2R move), or 75% of the position at $11.50 (3R move), and so fourth. [This math changes if you're using a $100 risk hotkey] How you break that profit taking down would be up to your strategy (e.g. maybe you sell 75% at 10.75, keeping 25% for further move). This is not too far off how I trade it. My entry triggers all of my take-profits at various R levels which I've premapped out (e.g. 10% @ 1.5R, 20% at 2R, etc.) according to my strategy. It's a semi-autonomous approach, allowing for management of the trade to just be adjusting the stop (e.g. if you're following using a MA as the support level). The advantage is it makes it so you can focus on multiple trades at once, which is why I switched to doing it this way over the manual approach of scaling out.

Jina, did you update your BUY/ENTRY hotkey too? You have to update that hotkey as well. You need to add "Price=Ask;" at the end of the entry hotkey. That command stores the price in the montage window, which is retrieved later when you need to sell to capture $100. My post from Friday gives more details. The "can't get valid price" error message sounds reasonable if you didn't update the entry hotkey.

Hi Jason, I tried the hotkey today with JMIA in sim, At the time I am hitting the Hotkey my P&L was $175 but it saying can't get the valid price. I used Kyle's $ risk hotkey for entry and used yours's for partial is that the reason I got error message?

I tried it, but I'm getting a 'Can't get valid price' error for the FREE Roll + Long script, see screenshot. What could I be missing? Is there some 'documentation' on this topic?

thank you. I tried it, but I'm getting a 'Can't get valid price' error for the FREE Roll + Long script, see screenshot. What could I be missing? Is there some 'documentation' on this topic?

2020-8-20 (SIM/LIVE) Game Plan: Trade first 90 minutes Live then switch to SIM. Goal +3R Watchlist $INTC, $RKT, $AAL, $YNDX TRADE 0: $INTC One Minute ORB: Scratch Order did not go through on DAS. Error message, "Could not get a valid Price" Trade 1: $INTC (SIM) Reverse ABCD -0.40R I had marked the level of 49.67 from overnight trading for Support & Resistance. $INTC setup an ABCD pattern and I went short at 49.38 with the stop above my S&R line. I panicked when it turned and covered for a 0.4R loss...should have held for a 3:1 win... TRADE 2 $RKT (SIM) ABCD -0.55R Certainly came in long biased for this stock. Thought it was setting up for ABCD went long at 9:44 then out one minute later when it was going the wrong way. Maybe I should have given more with to the 9:43 down candle as it engulfed the 9:42 bullish candle. I know that I discounted it though because the volume was much lower... TRADE 3 $INTC *Trade of the day Double Bottom Reversal +1.2R $INTC put in a beautiful double bottom and I went long at 9:50. Good partials a different levels. TRADE 5 $INTC Reversal -0.20R When I got out of Trade 4, I reversed my position to a short since it crossed the 9&20 on the 1 minute. Wrong ! Bailed out quick. TRADE 6 $AAL (SIM) VWAP Breakthrough +0.44R Ooohhh, I thought I was in Live...don't worry, I am banishing myself to SIM for a one week minimum... $AAL breaks through VWAP on good volume. Not a high R:R trade but I thought the price-volume-action fundamentals were super solid. 10% partial at 10:15 when it stalled, then I chickened out at 10:17 for another stall. TRADE 7 $AAL (LIVE) Double Top Reversal -0.78R Look at this beautiful double top on $AAL ! I took a very aggressive entry with an aggressive stop. Needed a confirmation on the 2 minute candle...(Lesson of the day. I might be a much better trader turning off the 1 minute chart and just trading the 2, 5 and 15...) Multiple time frame confirmations....let the candles close...I know this !!! Had to accomplish my family duties and came back to the computer later... TRADE 8 $LYFT (LIVE) Continuation -0.96R A little humor here. I was chatting with my buddy @Christopher Patterson on Discord in the afternoon. If you have been following his journals, he is becoming a Master of Reversals... Chris called this out as a reversal and of course I bet against that....oops... Again, another decision based on just the one minute chart... Shoot, turned my day from Green to Red on this one... Went short at 12:34 thinking it would continue lower off the 9-20 and VWAP behind it... Ahhhhh....!!! Good news is that I feel I have some clarity by journaling again... Great VPA lesson from Chris ! Thank you sir ! Afterthoughts: -.053 R SIM -0.75 R LIVE -1.28 R Total Need to go back to SIM until I have another good solid week. No more live trading for a while. Concentrate only on trades with a 3:1 minimum R:R (Hard Rule?) Keep paying attention to and learning about VPA. Continue to mark up and use overnight levels. They have been right on these last two days ! Multiple time frame confirmation. Wait for the 2 minute to close. Multiple time frame confirmation. Wait for the 2 minute to close. This applies more after the first thirty minutes of trading. Thinking I need to be journaling my stops points. Need to balance some aggressiveness with good stops. VPA VPA VPA It is ok to not take a trade. Double tops, Double bottoms are strong. Wait for the two minute confirmation. Forget bias. Follow Price Action & VPA. "Patient Aggressiveness" - Dr. Katz Trying to get a little smarter every day...!

I'm making this post here for the benefit of new people to the community, and so that they better understand the difference between "Books" when it comes to U.S. Equities... https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ecn.asp An ECN is a place where buyers/sellers meet - the orders you see in the ECN are the "book". Thing is, for U.S. equities, there are multiples different ECN, and hence multiple books. If you ever hear about algo's doing arbitrage, they are exploiting price differences between different ECNs. Examples of ECN's include ARCA, BATS, IEX, etc. You'll notice in DAS when you are sending orders, you can send orders directly to an ECN since DAS is lets you do direct access routing - that is direct access directly to an ECN you specify. Or, if you're with IB and you use SMRT routing, that's IB's smart routing algo, which automatically determines what ECN to send your order to. When your order is sent to an ECN, then ECN first tries to execute your order within that ECN - if you're buying shares, it tries to match you with a seller on that ECN or if you're selling shares it tries to match you with a buyer on that ECN. If it can't do that, then the ECN may route your order to a market maker, which takes additional execution time. See https://speedtrader.com/order-routing-and-how-it-affects-your-trading/ for more info. Now that you understand what books are you can understand what you see on your DAS L2 montage. The DAS Elite package includes: Elite (Includes access to iPhone/Android Interfaces): Totalview, Options Level 2, OTC Markets Level 2, ARCA Book, IEX Deep, Imbalance, Forex, and e-Mini Level 1 Or, decoded for U.S. Equities, that is NASDAQ Totalview, NYSE/ARCA, and IEX Deep books. But keep in mind that these are not ALL the books on which U.S. equities are traded! If you're familiar with Bookmap, which I highly recommend and is a L2 visualization/histogram software, Bookmap has a different data provider for U.S. Equities than DAS. Bookmap uses Dxfeed, which includes NASDAQ Totalview and the EDGX/BATS Books. As a result, if you're using DAS and Bookmap side by side looking at a ticker, sometimes you'll see liquidity in DAS that you don't see in Bookmap, and other times you'll see liquidity in Bookmap that you don't see in DAS - and that's because due to data provider differences you're looking at different, but totally valid, books! Both books are correct. It would be nice to have ALL the books for U.S. equities in one program, but sadly that's just not the case.

Ray, You make a valid point, however BA is not likely to fall below the $169.72 support line unless COVID strikes hard again. If you can catch it during a sell off day whenever it makes a new low (wick) below the level I mentioned you will probably be in good shape for a move up the daily trading range. I think this because there is too much institutional money in this symbol and the MMs will defend their position at all cost. The topside seems limited to a $185 max in the near term. Money is moving sectors and airlines have once again lost bookings due to recent increases in COVID cases, furthermore I think money usually invested in airlines and BA is currently in the space travel sector (look at BAs declining volume in the chart below). I do not say this antagonistically as I am long in $SAVE and a currently red -25% on that swing trade - poor decision on my part to keep it so soon in the COVID concern. That being said I am confident that $SAVE will be better off than some of the other airlines when this is all said and done as their daily burn rate is significantly lower and they have not taken much PPP money. I like $BA and have been DT it for 10 days in a row, I think there is upside but I would be cautious with any airline related symbols. Notice the volume declining in BA. A few days ago I thought BA would break out to the upside from the asymmetrical triangle and it did, but it was a false BO and now is on the downtrend line. Today it made a nice reversal move to green and then closed in red (below the same trend line - red line image 2). I like BA for a swing on 7.15.20 (yellow box) but currently I am skeptical. Maybe it will hit your target price given its current weakness.

Day 128 - Jul 16, 2020 19 Tickets 3 Symbols Red Day Personal: Coming off a day off, excited to trade and start fresh. Rested up and ready to go. Goals for the day: Follow the game plan. Watch list: Trades DELL - Long - Asymmetrical Triangle (B Setup) (Did not follow game plan) DELL Strong opening drive, came back to VWAP and consolidated forming Asymmetrical and ABCD. Took it long as it broke out - not great should be getting a better fill on this as its breaking beginning of candle. 5 min looking bearish with upper wicks. Didn’t like the price action, way too slow - and not willing to risk of a poor setup so took some off and then again for no reason (Adjusting stop) Improvement: Look for this to be more defined, this wasnt that clean....needed a bit more consoildatoin, also 5 min looks very weak. Trade Management: F - Micro management, would have hit R1 for first partial and then breakeven. NCLH (1) - Descending Triangle (Did not follow game plan) NCLH Rejected VWAP and made a strong push to LOD - short on the breakdown of descending triangle. Wanted cover half on the hammer with large vol showing a reversal - but didn’t want to micro manage - left it on after huge consolidation, and then MICRO MANAGED…adjut to break back above and to stop even -my stop would have held and I would have had an all day runner for 3+R. Trade Management: F - MICRO MANAGE Held off adjusting at the beginning, even though that was the only valid reason to adjust. Ended up covering on a minor pullback and missed whole move 10:30 thinking NCLH going to squeeze all the shorts here. NIO - Short - Descending Triangle (Did not follow game plan) Saw this as it bounced and rejected off PDL on VWAP Break N Go. Ended up waiting for the breakdown 12.67 HUGE bid at 12.5 (1700lots). Classic retest of breakdown zone on low vol. But seems like lots of support with 200MA on the 1 right there . Change of character, held the 200MA and now buying coming in while spy is falling. Ended up taking a partial Infront of 12.5 bid and then stopped out above VWAP Improvement: Need to be more aware of major support into PMH and MA's. NCLH (2) - Short - Asymmetrical / Descending Triangle (A Setup) (Did not follow game plan) Watching Lvl 2 huge battle around 16.26 and 16.27. the tell here was 16.26 quickly took ALL the offers and tried to squeeze, was a fake breakout with LOTS of volume, then offers quickly stepped down. Thinking this is an attempt and fail breakout knocking out tight stops and then sellers won. Had the entry at 16.25 but slippage on the way down to a QUICK drop down to 16.21 where 1500 Lots came out of nowhere…ended up taking 1R partial, then panicking on the 2nd partial (Huge Vol, fake breakdown). Next partial was as planned into 2R (followed by a hotkey error trying to place Limit Order) Then got stopped out. No reason for choosing this level - game plan says breakeven.. Good: Good validation with LVL 2 - bids step up to squeeze and knock out weak hands then drop. Trade management: 2nd Partial = Panic, 4rd Partial (Hotkey at 2R accidently) And adjust stop. Note: Looks like its controller by algos - insane size on both sides NCLH (3) - Short - Descending triangle (B Setup) (Did not follow game plan) Wasn't watching charts at all was distracted but saw NCLH dropping to a semi-descending triangle, got trigger happy thinking this thinking will shoot down and close the gap. Shorted LOD break and then quickly got bought back up. Stop loss, and then dropped and filled the gap. Good: Right Idea Improvement: Terrible execution, didn’t even plan for this, was a random reaction as soon as I flipped to this chart….just brutal trading Trade management: F Adjusted stop, broke rule. Trade Ideas 9:08 - NCLH Descending triangle in premarket, not in game plan but it worked out. Now look to short the pop to 16.8 and reject (No Entry - didn’t get up there in pre market) 9:34 - NCLH break through 16.5 ish, would like to see a Descending triangle holding 16.5 and consolidate for a little bit. Saw lvl 2 at 16.5 LOTS of selling into that, had a chance for entry. But too extended, nothing to risk off . Would like to see it come up to 16.8 for ABCD and then re-crack 16.5 (No entry until next chance at 9:40) 9:40 NCLH hit that 16.8 and reversal candle, but not taking - don’t have confidence on the sell off vol, potential bottom and huge squeeze candle. (Winner ~4R) 9:51 - TWTR asymmetrical entry at 34.9, or TWTR Ascending triangle at 9:54 (Loser x2) 10:34 - MS potential Ascending triangle near HOD and PMH break of 52.7ish (Small Winner 1.6R, Breakeven) 12:08 - INO asymmetrical triangle (Not clear - didn’t breakout for another 1.5 hours) 12:09 - DELL descending towards 58.78 hidden limit player? (No Entry - pattern broken) 13:08 - NIO ascending triangle (1.25R - Breakeven) 13:38 - VXRT descending ish triangle but not really. Could be a swing short. (No Entry, didn’t breakdown) 14:24 - VXRT hurring top of descending trendline. Would like to see it slowly grind down to 15.2 break (No Entry, didn’t breakdown) 14:25- AAL looking like a potential descending, getting a little late in the day for the big gap close and not super clean (Small winner 1.6R = Breakeven) 14:25 - TWTR asymmetrical triangle, short…but above VWAP done like that….igniting volume was there though 35.25 at the moment…stop 35.34? (Winner ~2.7R) 15:27 - DELL Descending triangle, this is much more defined than the NCLH one….(No Entry) 15:44 - NCLH 15.95 short descending mirror leve, no entry end of day and already got stopped on it right before l (Winner ~3.5R) Trade Review Goal 1: Hotkey Limit Orders (Entry, Profit, Stop): FAIL One of my worst trading days of late…. (GP wise : Around Breakeven). But process wise, broke a rule in EVERY trade. Either adjusted stops or premature partial both of which I have been pretty good at lately. Following game plan : 4.4 R Actual Trading: -0.2 R Similar story over and over, harp on my self about the same things and just cant seem to stop the micro managing. Planning to take a break from charts more, otherwise I get caught up in the action and play it tick by tick, killing my profitability, statistics and big picture idea. Things I did well: Entries, Lvl 2 Validation Things I did poorly: Trade Management, Micro Managing, Panic Partials, Following plan Daily Report Card 1. Hotkey Limit Orders (Auto Calc Entry, Profit, Stop and Adjust only in front of Major Level, and on Major Reversal Candle) = 1/5 = 0.2 20% WTF………

Hey, A couple things. First, with this script, before you hit the hotkey, you need to click on the chart where you want your stop loss to be. That might be why it's not getting a valid price. Second you'll want to change your Route to "Limit" while in sim. StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=20/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=LIMIT;Price= Ask+0.05;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:MARKET PX:StopPrice-0.05 ACT:SELL STOPPRICE:StopPrice QTY:Pos TIF:DAY+

SO i'm trying to use the scripts provided for a stop at 20 dollar loss on long position hot key StopPrice=Price-0;DefShare=BP*0.925;Price=Ask-Price+0.00;SShare=20/Price;Share=DefShare-SShare;DefShare=DefShare+SShare;SShare=Share;Sshare=DefShare-SShare;Share=0.5*SShare;TogSShare;ROUTE=SMRTL;Price= Ask+0.05;TIF=DAY+;BUY=Send;DefShare=200;TriggerOrder=RT:STOP STOPTYPE:MARKET PX:StopPrice-0.05 ACT:SELL STOPPRICE:StopPrice QTY:Pos TIF:DAY+ But is not working. I'm suing the Das Pro 3 month simulator. Is there anything that I need to do different to get it to work. Also not sure if it makes a difference but I'm trying it on replay since I'm working night shift right now. Haven't tried on live trading yet. It gives me an error saying "error: cant get valid price" Any help will be really appreciated thanks.

Hi Taylor, I know a long time back there was an issue with a Streamdeck going rogue and firing all the hotkeys, I thought they updated that in software, but I remember reading on the Elgato forums that some users had to RMA their devices (faulty) ... you may want to contact their support. I've used my StreamDeck going on 18 months and have never had this issue .. but I don't have predefined share totals, so it wouldn't be able to send a valid order in my case. Now, you can implement a few protection mechanisms within DAS. If you go into DAS Main Menu -> Setup -> Trading Settings, set these: X - Check duplicated new order (same order in 10 seconds) -> This prompts you if a duplicate order is sent rapidly. X - Price Check -> Choose values that make sense for you. This won't do much in this case if your hotkeys define a price. X = Checkmark You could also add a modifier key to your hot scripts that is not reflected in the StreamDeck. Example: You'd set a hotkey in DAS to SHIFT+CTRL+1, set the StreamDeck to send CTRL+1. With this setup, you'd have to hold down SHIFT on the keyboard while you hit a button on the StreamDeck. As an added measure, you could also add to your Hotkey scripts a '; FocusWindow CHART;' at the end of all your current hotkeys that can buy / sell stock. CHART would be a name you give a particular Chart or something like the Market Viewer, via the Right-Click Window -> Config -> Name). This way if you get a rapid firing of hotkeys in the future, only one will be able to actually fire off because the window focus would move to something else and the other buy / sell hotkeys would fail until you manually bring the focus back to the montage. When you go live, you should also set up your maximum loss with DAS (it's a form you file), that will minimize actual risk because they'll sell everything / reject orders if you hit that level. I do it like this (example values): -$60 PnL --> Alert --> Speak 'Max Loss Warning' (this signifies I have room for one more full R loss) -$90 PnL --> Alert --> Speak 'Max Loss STOP' (this tells me to stop trading) -$120 PnL --> DAS Risk Form --> Auto Stop / Reject I give an additional 1R buffer between the point I'm supposed to Stop (self discipline) and the point DAS will turn the account off for the day and liquidate positions, to account for the higher-than-my-account commissions DAS calculates in.