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3acor,
When (if) you get your sell hotkey working can you do me a solid and post a snapshot of the entire text here?
I have been trying for several days to get this working but haven't figured out how so far.
Thanks
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I bought with a hotkey - works ok.
Then I try to sell with a hotkey and I get Order Quantity of 0 error (see snapshot below).
When I press the sell hotkey it changed some parameters in the trading window..eg it changed the quantity box to 0 and also TIF and I think some others. So it seems the problem is that pressing the hotkey is changing the trading params.
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It works now...I hadn't filled in the correct section.
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I mean sell hotkey of course.
It's a nice feature to have the hotkeys take default values from the trading window.
The default share size was set - so it shouldn't have been zero.
AFter using the hotkey the trading window got reset...changed appearance, eg share size options changed, and also share size was set to zero.
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Hi,
What's wrong with this buy hotkey...says 0 position size
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You are right. There is an action section below that wasn't set. However, the Order option in the action section is greyed out. The others are selectable.
Is there anything in the variables section that is preventing the Order option from being selected?
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This hotkey didn't do anything. I expected it to sell a long position. What is wrong with it? I used it on a chart window.
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Thanks for the explanation. I don't need tick backfill. Good to know about the tick settings for TDA.
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Hi,
The tick chart attached is at 30 ticks. The period shown is from about 5.30 to 7.50pm. There are only 19 candles but in reality there should be hundreds, probably over 1000.
Do you know why not all the candles are displaying? The data is from TDA.
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When you release the hotkeys can you provide plenty of varied and complete examples that show the full capabilities - take out the guesswork (for those of us who don't like to read the manual
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Also maybe have a section of the forum devoted to hotkeys where people can discuss their use and provide examples.
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When can we expect the trading hotkeys to be ready for action?
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You are right...I tried KODK and the order went through ok.
I guess there are some tickers I can't trade.
Thanks.
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No, the order doesn't show up in the MT transaction tab. It gets sent over to IB and is in the order window in IB.
The attached image shows the message I get.
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Sent the log files.
But I just noticed that I can see the orders listed in the TWS order window - although they aren't being executed.
I guess there is some setting in IB that I need to change?
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any stock symbol I think, eg VXX
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Hi,
I have been using the TDA datasource without any problems (logging in with my username/password details in the data source panel) but today I get an incorrect password error message. I hadn't made any changes to the log-in panel and I can log-in to TOS ok so the username/password are still correct.
Do you know why the MT data source log-in for TDA is no longer working in my case?
Thanks,
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My external scanner can output data to an Excel file - keeping it updated in real-time. It's fairly easy to highlight and paste the tickers into the MT portfolio but it would be nice if there was an automatic way for the portfolio to get the tickers from Excel. No doubt AHK could do this but an in-built solution would be more convenient.
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Hi,
I have TWS open with my paper trading account logged in. I am connected to TDA datafeed (I have an account). I can see my paper trading balance in Account View.
The IB paper trading account set up seems correct. The only unusual thing is that there is an exclamation mark after the account name in the Trading tab of the chart.
When I try to trade a message appears on the chart "IB server response: contract is not available for trading".
What do I need to to do to get the IB paper trading to work?
Thanks,
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I have two hotkey text files - one for long scenario and another for short scenario. Each one has about 50 hotkey commands, one per line. The two files are saved in the same directory using different names. The two files are reverse operations of each other line for line, and each line has the same hotkey. If I want to go long I press a macro hotkey and the long scenario text file is read in, and I have another macro hotkey which reads in the short scenario text file. I can switch quickly while trading, it only takes about 1 second to change over once I press the key.
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If you do make a hotkey text file input then it would be nice to be able to change input files easily - i.e. have a hotkey for input of a script file or even better have hotkeys that can be assigned to read in specific input files). On my current platform I have one for going long and one for going short and they can be switched via a hotkey macro. The reason I do this is because I like to assign trading actions to normal keys and then have the ability to modify the same key by using it with the shift/ctrl/alt keys - so this really means I only have the function keys available plus a few others.
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I use DAS trader. Their hotkeys are not bad They also allow hotkeys to be combined with clicking on charts.
Here are my suggestions:
1) I know the focus is on chart trading but it would be nice to also have the option to use trading hotkeys without having to click on a chart
2) Allow any key to be a hotkey. Eg all function keys, page-up, page-down, home, etc.
3) allow keys to be combined with Ctrl, Alt, Shift keys in making a hotkey.
4) allow hotkey text file to be input. This makes it easy to create and modify the hotkeys in Excel and output to a text file for input to the software.
Globally Reserved Hotkey
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I agree with 3acor. It is restrictive to not be able to use shift-letter. And I would also like no globally reserved hotkeys. Especially, please don't reserve any Fn keys.