Quality of Life Questions

[Babs]

Trading Hotkeys:

• Hotkey Programming help (FAQ anywhere or 3rd party tutorial? Or autohotkeys better/easier?)

Specifics:

• (Sell X% of position on Bid through $X or X%)
• (Sell X% of position on Ask) (I think I managed this)
• (Buy $X amount on Ask through $0.X or %0.X)
• (Cancel All Open Orders) (I think I managed this)

While editing trading hotkeys:

• Under Header, What does Window Type mean? (Where the hotkey can be executed from?)
• Under Action, what does "Drop" mean?
• What does "Send" mean? (Executes automatically T/F?)
• Further down, under LEG +, what is display size? Does 0 mean 0 of my traded shares will be visible to other traders?
• SPinstructions "hidden", or does this hide my orders to other traders?
• Is it possible to be able to press, for example, Shift+1 while having the Trade Ticket window or L2 window selected, and the hotkey automatically executes the order corresponding to whichever crypto or stock the Trade Ticket window or L2 window currently shows?
• It looks like quantity ($1) and limit price (Ask+0.2%) cannot be expressed in dollar or percentage amounts respectively?

Level 2 Window:

• I could not find the ability to chunk prices in clumps of $0.01, $0.1, $1.00 in the L2, similar to the DOM?
• I could not find the ability to customize color scheme on L2 just like the charts?
• What does Round to Lot Size mean? When selected it drastically changes the volumes to lower numbers. 

Raw Data (Time & Sales/Tape):

• Under view tab, ability to specify block size threshold for highlighting orders on the tape in dollar equivalents instead of volume (translates the volume number to price invisibly, then highlights the volume if it exceeds a price threshold, instead of a volume threshold. Based from the current bid or ask price.) (Ex: $5,000+ equivalent orders get highlighted rather than 5,000+ share/coin volume so it's normalized across all stocks/coins to a dollar threshold)

[Jerry Medved]

Hotkeys are not production released yet, so we are still getting some stuff in order. The help file does have documentation so for example, if you are on the editor screen and hit F1, you will get a window with help for the Hotkey Editor. Click on the HEADER link to see info about that. 

To cancel X% of the position, you can specify the following in the Quantity field: 
Pos/2  (for 1/2 of the position). 
Pos/5 (for 1/5th or 20%)
or if you have some specific percent, like 15% for example, you can do:
Pos * 15 / 100

Window Type - Yes, it controls which windows that hotkey is available on. 

Action:

• Drop means drop the capsule onto the window, but do NOT send. you would have to submit it yourself after. On trade ticket, that would mean fill in the trade ticket accordingly
• Send means submit the order
   
• NOTE: if you select BOTH drop and send, MT puts the capsule on the chart, DOM or fills in trade ticket, then submits. If you select JUST send, the hotkey bypasses the UI except to get any values that need to be defaulted from the UI (Like SYMBOL, or if you leave QTY blank) and sends the order. Some stuff can only be done with send=true, drop=false.  For example, sending multiple orders on a trade ticket, or multiple orders to different accounts, since the user interface does not support that.

Display Size - This is same as on the trade ticket - for brokers that support it, you can for example send an order for 1,000 shares with display size of 100. On Level II others will only see 100 for your order.

Special Instructions - Hidden - again - only supported for brokers that have this. Interactive Brokers, some others.  If you do not see that option on the trade ticket for your broker, then you cannot use it in the hotkey. 

"Is it possible to be able to press, for example, Shift+1 while having the Trade Ticket window or L2 window selected, and the hotkey automatically executes the order corresponding to whichever crypto or stock the Trade Ticket window or L2 window currently shows?"

YES! that is exactly what hotkeys are used for. As long as you do not specify the SYMBOL explicitly in the hotkey, it will take whichever symbol is on the window on which you are executing the hotkey

QTY in $ -  You can put an expression in the Limit price. So for example, to have $1000 worth, at ASK price, can do specify the following for limit price
floor(1000/ASK)

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chunk prices  - Level II just shows exactly which orders are there. there is no lumping together like DOM. 

Colors - you can pick from the ones you have. Level II and portfolios do not support custom.

Round to lot size - for US stocks, the lot size is usually 100. so if you have that option and the row has volume of 10,000, it will show as 100. helpful for cheap OTC stuff that has sizes in the millions for example
 

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Highlight in $ - y, that would be something we could do in the future.

[Babs]

17 hours ago, Jerry Medved said:

The help file does have documentation so for example, if you are on the editor screen and hit F1, you will get a window with help for the Hotkey Editor. Click on the HEADER link to see info about that. 

Awesome thank you! The F1 help was extremely useful, under index searching "hotkeys" I found very good explanations.

Do these hotkeys look correct?

1. “Buy $10 at the Ask”?

How would I change it to “Buy $10 at the Ask, through (above) 0.5% of ask price”? Would Ask+0.5 work? I could not do Ask+0.5% because it said the % was invalid for a LimitPrice input.

2. “Sells 100% of position on the Bid”?

How would I change it to “Sell 100% of position on the Bid, through (below) 0.5% of bid price”? Would Bid-0.5 work?

3. “Sells 100% of position at the Ask”?

 

 

 

 

[Jerry Medved]

1) there is no need to specify Display Size. Just delete that row. 

2) instead of Ask, you can do Ask * 1.05. Remember to use floor(10 / (Ask * 1.05)) in the Quantity calculation too

3) set the LimitPrice to Bid * 0.95

[Babs]

Ok thank you for the help!