Good to meet you Patrick and look forward to the exchange. I only trade stocks, but they seem to roll out a lot of changes for options traders. I have submitted two enhancement requests to the development team at Schwab, but who knows if they will implement anything. Although, in the das sim I had buttons set up and just clicked on them to enter and exit trades.
#Streetsmart edge hotkeys simulator#
I found that I can get an experience close to the das simulator that way. A couple of key points there, you must have the all-in-one trade tool "active", as in clicked on, to have the hotkeys work and you should probably remove the confirmation popup window. I do have hotkeys set-up in the street smart edge platform. Previously I had traded on my own for 9 months and decided I needed some sim time and additional training after reading Andrew's book. I started with the chat room first week in October, did the sim for 3 months and am now back trading live in January. I personally only trade up to 11am since I find the volume drops off and I don't want to give back morning profits to the afternoon market. By limiting my screeners to NASDAQ and $5-$100 stocks I can be assured of a small but active watch list in the morning. I do not trade anything under $5 and stay away from NYSE stocks for the most part. By the time Andrew arrives in the chat (I am east coast US so have a big head start) I have already found a watch list that is fairly close to what he ends up with. I have my moments with the Schwab platform so am always "thinking" about changing, but I do like the news feed and the screener tools that are built in.