Shortcut key to help in-running trading

[Seabird]

Obviously when trading in-running any speed assistance is very helpful.

Would it be possible to have a shortcut key, e.g. F12 assigned to the manual close button?

That way we could select the manual close price by clicking on the current or reverse prices. Following immediately with the shortcut key would place the bet instead of having to move the mouse down onto the manual close button before clicking.

This would save valuable nanoseconds.

I know it's possible, a hope it's easy to implement.

Keep up the excellent work guys.

Seabird

[andyfuller]

Have a look at AutoHotKey

[Seabird]

Many thanks for that Andy, I certainly will.

Seabird

[Bet Angel]

If you hover the mouse over the ladder you are trading, press the 'C' key on your keyboard to close out your position at the current available price. This keystroke replicates the close position button on the trade calculator.

[andyfuller]

Problem with that is that you still have to move the mouse over the ladder you want to close out at.

I use AutoHotkey for all off my shortcut keys as I find the built in ones not much use tbh.

[Bet Angel]

"you still have to move the mouse over the ladder you want to close out at"

How do you suggest the software identify what position you want to close?

[Seabird]

What I wanted to do was try to close on either the current price edit box or the reverse price box but also I have the greening checkbox checked.

Consequently, I don't think hovering over the ladder helps as it doesn't adjust the stake.

I hope my understanding is correct.

Seabird

[andyfuller]

What I wanted to do was try to close on either the current price edit box or the reverse price box but also I have the greening checkbox checked.

Not sure why you don't just click on the current close or reverse close buttons tbh rather than clicking on the current close price and then the manual close button, or, the reverse close price and then the manual close button?

But using AHK you can program a key so (as long as you have the trading profit calculator in the same place all the time) it does the above on current close and one for reverse close, therefore meaning you press just one button rather than manually clickign the price and then the manual close.

[andyfuller]

"you still have to move the mouse over the ladder you want to close out at"

How do you suggest the software identify what position you want to close?

Have a key for each ladder or am I missing the point?

[Bet Angel]

We already have a large number of keys reserved in Bet Angel, some are already in use, others not just yet. There has to be a mixture of keys and mouse at some point so we are trying to strike that balance where possible. If you had just three ladders you could close at current, last traded, reverse and so on. So replicating a key stroke for all those on all ladders soon uses up a lot of keys!

We've done a lot of work on this in the background so we just wanted an opinion.

[Seabird]

The reason I don't want to click on the Current Close button (for example) is because, as you know, in-play prices are hectic.

If I click on Current Price when it is green the delay and speed of change means it can end up placing me a red bet. Whereas, if I 'capture' a green price into the manual price box at least I know I'm trying to match a price I want, even if I don't end up getting it. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for all help, I'm going to try AutoHotKey today.

Seabird

[Seabird]

Have a look at AutoHotKey

Thanks again, I got it working under AutoHotKey now. That will be a great improvement.

Seabird

[gutuami]

I might add that using 'c' key is tricky. You have to do it like you do a mouse click. Otherwise it will keep sending that same 'current close' bet more that once. It did happened to me once while inplay. And I lost money. Never used it since than.
Also if you sometimes have 'fat fingers' pressing 'x' to cancel back bets' side you could touch 'c' as well. A good idea would be to move 'c' functionality to other key such as 'f' or 'v'.

cheers

[andyfuller]

A good idea would be to move 'c' functionality to other key such as 'f' or 'v'.

As a temp. fix you can do this yourself very easily using AHK

[gutuami]

I've used 'Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4' and changed 'c' with 'g'. But it didn't work. When you're typing it's ok but when ba is running still the letter{probably the ASCII code} between 'x' and 'v' is 'current close'. So I gave up and did not use it anymore. Maybe I'll give it a try to autohotkey to see if it works...

cheers