Daytrading Platform

Keyboard Configuration:

Numeric Keys for changing tier size: 1-100,2-200 etc.
shift+1: 1000, shift+2: 2000 etc.
shift + o: market buy
shift + w: market sell
shift + p: place offer
shift + q: place bid
shift + a: place 10 paisa better bid
shift + l: place 10 paisa better offer
shift + `: cancel last pending order
`: cancel all pending orders
.............

Sounds much useful.

Was looking for something like if I hit a 'buy' key, it buys for me 'tier' shares from best offer; and if not sufficient quantity at offer, fills partial and sends a limit buy order for remaining shares at second best offer.
Still further on Graybox we have that such orders automatically get cancelled after 3 seconds if not filled; and it does not buys me if second best offer is more than 50 paisa expensive (preset range).

A good keyboard always makes things easier. Shall check with it and autohotkey.

shift + o: market buy
shift + w: market sell
shift + p: place offer
shift + q: place bid
shift + a: place 10 paisa better bid
shift + l: place 10 paisa better offer

Eh Joy, for a while felt like coming from the stone-age

still clueless how the script gonna pick best 5 orders price from the terminal; to save me from manually typing in the price rather use '->' and '<-' keys.





Just at market open I have orders placed in 4-5 stocks. If could have a window on screen to monitor their status could be good (tt5 requires the aweful procedure to press F3 then find manually which orders are folating). I mean an additional orders window to the message window that is provided.

all you have to do is write 2 lines of code. even a excel macro can do the job. just google appactivate & sendkeys.
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p.s. - you can also hire a good programmer. will save u a lot of trouble.

I have tried sending keys with a macro to PIB, but its bit inconsistent. cant use it for real trading. ref : Automated Trading in PIB

Moreover here is some similar discussion : Sendkeys, Appactivate and inconsistency [Post by Mr.unreliable]



Isnt there any hack to PIB for robust (scriptbased) order placement. It will be worth paying for such script.

Regards.

Well, if your programming language is java i can help you a bit. I am having account with www.icicidirect.com and i am using java program to interact with this site, hence getting market data as well as sending orders (using httpclient from apache and parsing html page).

But before that :
I am struggling to get right algorithm. Can some one chip some idea around this, "how does a day trader take decision" at any instance of time. I have created a small "test bed" that can test any strategy on past six month of data (1 min tick data for nifty stocks from bse).

Here is simple java program

HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
HostConfiguration hostConfiguration = httpClient.getHostConfiguration();
hostConfiguration.setHost("secure.icicidirect.com", 443, "https");
String DATA_URL = "/trading/equity/trading_stock_quote.asp?Symbol=";
String url = DATA_URL + symbol.getSymbol();
PostMethod getMethod = new PostMethod(url);
int statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(getMethod);
byte[] bytes = getMethod.getResponseBody();
String response = new String(bytes);

now you can parse the html and get data. Similarly you can simulate any post request. e.g. for log in to icici site

String url = "/customer/validlogon.asp?nFile=tradehome";
PostMethod method = new PostMethod(url);
method.addParameter("FML_USR_ID", user);//view source of html page
method.addParameter("FML_USR_USR_PSSWRD", password);
method.addParameter("startin", "1");
byte[] bytes = method.getResponseBody();