I am testing the BOOKTRADER in TWS. There's a hotkey (buy with a left click on ask, sell with left click on bid). BUT: When I move over ask with the mouse it appears a SELL next the arrow... vice versa on bid. In other words, the hotkeys are not correct. I tried to change it in hotkey configuration but it doesn't work. Anyone has this issue?
That's because booktrader is set up to sell on the ask and buy on the bid. It is the opposite of the way the tws regular platform is set up.
btw...does anyone know how to keep the bt auto centered, so you don't need to continue to hit the re-center button?
In BookTrader>configure>settings>number of rows to display. For example, if the contract shows to best b/a 5, display 12 rows and it will recenter automatically. Sometimes it will run down/up to best b/a 3, but will recenter from there.
Okay...thanks. This doesn't seem to work as well for es, er2, and ec. Quite often on a 40 row display, the current quote will be 35 from the bottom and 5 from the top, etc. It might just be a function of rapid price movement and a delay as to how often the bt auto re-centers.
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In addition, you might experiment with the settings above the number of rows to display, being, Center around last price and Center around midpoint of bid/ask.