Trading Pits To Pixels - 30 Years In The Trading Markets Patrick Rooney

TT tips (#TTtips) for the trading week ended on Sept, 17, 2021.

Here’s a recap of the tips I created and published for TT this past two weeks. You’ll get a bit more flavor on each tip here as I’m not held to the character limit at Twitter.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Need a tip on using TT? Ask me.


Use a conditional order to trigger a 2nd order entering after the 1st is filled
Use a trailing stop as part of a TT Bracket order
Learn how to highlight specific prices on MD Trader
Learn how Data Inject bring your global trading into a single platform
Read about how TT helped bring ~ 500 traders in one group together on a single platform
Learn how TT Fix Services can bring together your disparate trading needs
Learn about spreading crudeoil futures between China and the U.S..
Learn how to access CBOE Europe on TT
Read about access to the Athens Stock Exchange on TT
Learn about using ADL to build tools to monitor markets and trigger trades
Learn about the Audit Query widget to use for advanced search of trade activity

Here’s a recap of the tips I created and published for TT this past two weeks. You’ll get a bit more flavor on each tip here as I’m not held to the character limit at Twitter.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Need a tip on using TT? Ask me.


Expand the view of Market Explorer to find specific options and spreads
Access data within the Analytics block to create your own market indicators
Learn how to roll instruments in the Market Grid widget
Learn about the five different displays available in the Fills widget
Access TT Order Type and algo templates in the Order Ticket widget
Learn about iron ore futures and other commodities available at SGX
Delete Autospreader and Aggregator parent orders and leave the child order in the market
Learn about what regulators are looking for in regard to spoofing and nefarious trading and how TT Score can notify you of “iffy” behavior
Use the Reset on revert parameter with TT Order Types to refresh trigger counts
Learn about actions that can cause your algo to pause or cancel and how to keep your child orders working should that occur
Learn about precondition rules and how they add an additional layer of stealth to your TT Order Type
Learn how to quickly change the interval, instrument and/or technical indicator on a chart by clicking and typing
Learn about the price type rules required when setting multiple triggers with a TT Order Type
Learn about building your own conditional order type in ADL
Scroll through charts in TT Mobile by clicking the dropdown list of instruments
Learn how to quickly roll chart instruments forward
Use Algo Dashboard in a phone app, TT Mobile, to manage your algo trading
Get a brief overview of TT Order Types in the initial episode of TT Office Hours
Learn about using Clone and reverse to remove local and admin fills
Learn how TT Score can help identify collusive spoofing which is an attempt by two or more traders to deceive the market
Use the Conditional OMA to set one order as the trigger for working a second order
Learn how to set a Trailing Stop as part of a TT Bracket order

Here’s a recap of the tips I created and published for TT this past week. You’ll get a bit more flavor on each tip here as I’m not held to the character limit at Twitter.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Need a tip on using TT? Ask me. Find me on Twitter @patrickrooney


Learn how to change the parameters of an order in the Order Book widget
Create a Hotkey to join the best bid or best ask
Highlight aggregated quantity cell is the Time & Sales widget
Expand pop-up alert notifications that you’ve created to pause or edit that alert
Use Order Profiles to carry your default order settings when you roll a contract
Expose source column on OFW to keep track of your order source
TT has partnered with MySteel to bring you new liquidity pools in iron ore and steel
Contract volume includes volume from spreads, not just the outright futures contract
TT’s Fill and Audit Trail services can periodically send secure files should you require them
Autospreader includes pre-built rules to help you quickly get working on your arb edge
Autospreader Rule “Quote Best Bid/Ask” can help you avoid overquoting violations
Expand Market Explorer via the “More” button to easily find specific options contracts
Learn what regulators consider malicious trading in Jay Biondo’s chat on #FuturesRadio
Use the Analytics block in ADL to access canned technical indicators or build your own

TT tips (#TTtips) for the trading week ended on Aug. 20, 2021.

Here’s a recap of the tips I created and published for TT this past week. You’ll get a bit more flavor on each tip here as I’m not held to the character limit at Twitter.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Need a tip on using TT? Ask me.


Sweep orders for all available or a limited quantity
Configuration tips for MD Trader
Sample configurations for Autospreader...crush spread, crack spread, TUT, ES/YM
Use TT Score to monitor for nefarious trading like Momentum Ignition
View changes in Autospreader Rules that are part of your spreading logic
Add bookmarks to the ADL canvas to quickly locate specific sections of your algo logic
Listen to Anthony Crudele chat with a Market Profile master, Jim Dalton, on Futures Radio
Learn about normalizing currency in your international iron ore spread configurations
Take advantage of account hierarchies to allocate risk to Introducing Brokers and sub-accounts
Learn about crude oil options at INE in the 8/23/21 8pm CT webinar with INE, Nanhua Futures and TT
Learn about the market data and working order indicators in the Markets view of TT Mobile
Use the Order Book widget to change order parameters, including order type, of working orders
Configure a hotkey to quickly join the best bid or best offer

Here’s a review of the #TTtips published by Trading Technologies for the week ended Aug. 13, 2021. I provide much more detail on each tip than you’ll find in the published tweet.

-Keep track of P&L on MD Trader

-Enabled keyboard trading to operate alongside click-trading

-Learn about the new tools available with the TT Score Dashboard

-Find out what you can do with the Watchlist widget

-Enabled a sound alert to notify you when hung using Autospreader

-” Behind the Code” debuted with an interview of Brazilian commercial pilot turned TT coder, Christian Brandalise

-Learn about using Autospreader to trade iron ore futures at international exchanges and Dalian Commodity Exchange

-TT has added futures and options on futures at the Warsaw Stock Exchange

-Add options Greeks to Market Grid

-Trade Aggregator products like micro, mini and standard-sized crude contracts on TT Mobile

-Use the Allocation widget, part of TT OMS, to allocate trades to individual accounts

-Use MD Trader to sweep markets for all available contracts or a limited quantity

Each week I produce and publish tips on using the TT platform and tweet them out for Trading Technologies. Here's a review of those tips along with a bit more detail as I'm not held down to character cap on Twitter.

In this past week we talked about the following features:

-Keyboard Trading

-P&L on MD Trader

-Recent 5 Questions blog interviews traders, brokers and exchanges

-Stealthy order entry with TT If Touched orders

-Give-up accounts on Blocktrader

-Using Alert block with Analytics block for trade signal notifications

-Building algos that may be used with MD Trader (DOM)

-Austospreader Rules that prevent aggressive orders (good for crypto)

-H/T to Futures Radio and its guests

-Configure price display as fractions or decimals

--Build a simple algo in 10 minutes that determines how aggressively to bid the market

-Override tick size in Autotrader for a better display of wide markets

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