I have heard people say hot key trading in invaluable to trading futures. I have just started trading futures (eMini GLBX) and was wondering what type of functionality people use the hot keys for? e.g Buy offer Buy bid etc... Thanks,
Buy Limit Sell Limit Buy Market Sell Market Buy Stop Market Sell Stop Market Size Up Size Down Limit Price Up 1 Tick Limit Price Up 1 Point Limit Price Down 1 Tick Limit Price Down 1 Point Cancel Order Transmit Order
Everything is either F keys and a few others eg, ESC, End, Page Up etc.. I don't use the shift key for anything. I have all buy keys on one side (F1-F6) and sell keys on the other (F7-9 and others). I also have Transmit (\) and Cancel (ESC) on opposite sides.
i bought a progamable keypad from x-keys about 3 months ago, and it works really well. i have it set up that each key is set to my program hot key such as ctrl-B, so it allows me one key trade execution, and is seperate from my keyboard.