But a much cleaner solution is to get a secondary keyboard. One way to solve the key assignment issue is by writing on the keys of your keyboard. Traders have lost thousands of dollars due to pressing the wrong key (for example, instead of covering their short they actually doubled down on it…). However, if you use 8-10+ hot keys to trade, it can get kind of hairy trying to remember how you assigned the hot keys. Hot keys allow you to execute with a press of a button complex trades with things like automatic stop losses and number of shares automatically calculated based on risk.ĭAS Trader hot keys are executed by pressing buttons on your keyboard like “CTRL + ALT + B”. I have the X-keys buttons programmed to execute DAS Trader hot keys, which is one of the best features of DAS Trader. While I’m in the trade, I keep my ring finger (left hand) on “Partial -25%”, my middle finger on “Partial -50%”, and my index finger on “Cover/Sell All”.

I’m usually in the trade in ~1 second of spotting it. As soon as I spot a trade to take, I click on the appropriate DAS Trader montage window and hit the Buy or Short button on X-keys. When I trade, I keep one hand on my mouse to navigate DAS Trader and my other hand on X-keys with my fingers positioned on the Buy and Short buttons.

I use it to execute DAS Trader hotkeys, and it’s by far my favorite secondary keyboard and I can’t imagine trading without it. X-keys is a customizable keypad that can be programmed to execute key presses and macros.

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