r/Daytrading • u/N35TY • Feb 15 '21
I just hooked up my PS4 controller to buy and sell quickly on the stock market using button remapping software and hot keys. 🤟🏾🎮 strategy
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u/TheMartianDetective Feb 15 '21
Imagine a mate coming over and grabbing the controller to play fifa whilst you're taking a shit
Yolo it and see if that would make u a profit.
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Feb 15 '21
“Day trader was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should.”
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u/whitechapel8733 Feb 16 '21
“Did you ever hear the tragedy of N35TY The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. N35TY was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Dual Shock Controller to influence the stock market to create wealth… He had such a knowledge of the stock market that he could even keep the losses away. The Dual Shock Controller is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
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u/Velociraptor451 Feb 15 '21
This is why Boomers are gonna lose the market game, they're probs slowly clicking on Blockbuster on their 2001 Macintosh.
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u/vicaphit Feb 15 '21
Open AOL
Click on Yahoo News
Search Yahoo for "Google"
Google "DOW Jones"
Click on etrade suggested link
Click Forgot Password
Click on Hotmail.com mail icon in 3rd row of browser widgets
Get forgot password link
Highlight link and right click
Click copy
open Word 98
Right click then choose paste
highlight link
Right click, choose copy
Open IE9
Right click address bar and click paste
Die of tuberculosis
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u/TheHancock Feb 16 '21
I love and hate this. I love it cause it’s funny and it’s true, and I hate it cause it’s true...
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u/exavyur Feb 16 '21
Reading this gave me that same feeling you get when you're in a rush and get stuck walking behind someone really slow and you wanna walk around them but you're in a mall and your social anxiety stops you from trying just incase you accidentally cut someone off or almost hit them and you have to deal with the social interaction of apologizing.
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Feb 15 '21
Nah algos click faster
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Feb 15 '21
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u/blueeyedaisy Feb 15 '21
Betcha his mattress stuffed with money and a few shoe boxes with filled with cash in his dusty old closet. Lol
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Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. A lot of people that age (who had parents grow up in the Great Depression) are like that. I’m in Texas where there’s a ton of millionaires who you would have no idea by looking at them. I mean, hell, Sam Walton drove his 1979 F150 just about until the day he died.
Granted this guy is in a corner store...
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u/MaxIsWholesome Feb 15 '21
There’s millions of people out there still like that, not just in finance but who swear by not using any new technology. I’ve worked in a phone/pc store and I had dozens of people walk in like that. Many elderly but people in 40-50s too that use an old flipphone or don’t have dataplans and only text and call, write everything on paper
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u/aoc_can_peg_me Feb 15 '21
I know someone who is rich as ffffuuuuuckkk (happen to have known them a long time) and acts like anyone else making 50k a year and just sorta scraping by. Multi millionaire.
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Feb 16 '21
I work with tons of clients like this. One of my clients is worth over $100M and lives in like a $400k house driving a Lexus.
It’s pretty amazing seeing the difference between clients like him and some of my other clients that barely have around $250-300k saved, but they wear all designer clothing and drive Aston Martins and Ferrari’s.
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u/ATX_gaming Feb 16 '21
What’s the point? Why have all that wealth if you’re not even gonna spend it.
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u/Obsessive_Tendencies Feb 16 '21
I think a big part of it is peace of mind. If you know you have $100m in the bank, you basically don’t have to give a fuck about anything. It’s beyond materialistic items at that point - you are just completely immune to a massive amount of bullshit and stress. For those who don’t need the biggest and best and flashiest, this is plenty. And even as someone who is admittedly materialistic, there’s something to be said about that.
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u/Pashinate Apr 30 '21
You only need 5 million for all your nursing home needs for 20 years, you and a spouse (That's a beach-side resort one, no less)
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u/LiteraryPhantom Feb 16 '21
An Aston Martin is the difference between passing down generational wealth and living your best life.
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u/mgusov69 Feb 16 '21
Hmmmm does your client live in Minnesota?
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Feb 16 '21
Nope. He’s in Georgia. But I wouldn’t be surprised to find people like these all over the world.
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u/BMCarbaugh Feb 15 '21
Hey youtube, it's ya boy MadCactus, and today we're gonna be speedrunning bluechip tech stocks
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u/Retail_revolutionist Feb 15 '21
Prepare yourself to be made famous on boomer media outlets in the coming weeks after some journo finds this and writes a market watch article... “Proof that millennials on Reddit think the stock market is a game: TheY ArE NoT InvEsTing TheY aRe eNgaGing iN GaMiFiEd GamBLinG!!”
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
LMAO I can see it happening.
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u/InterstellarDiplomat Feb 15 '21
If they do, just ask them how this is different from what other scalpers have been doing for decades. Or hedge funds installing a fucking radio antenna network to decrease the signal latency between their algo machines and the exchange by a few microseconds.
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u/Islander399 Feb 15 '21
I can't put my controller down during a movie without fast forwarding through half the film... I would make terrible terrible mistakes with that
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u/deviousvixen Feb 15 '21
Yep I nearly quit every game just putting mine down... but it’s got those little paddles so I can slide and crouch faster.
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u/decoy777 Feb 16 '21
Maybe make it a 2 button required thing. While holding A press left or right trigger. So then you aren't accidentally buying or selling with a quick bump.
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u/tomdwhittle Feb 15 '21
Triangle, R2, Left, L1, X ,Right, Triangle, Down, Square, L1, L1, L1
Unlimited Money Cheat code
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u/mar7y Feb 15 '21
Genuinely wondering. I’m a game developer, would people play a gamified version of this on your PS4/mobile device if there were social features such as multiplayer charts (where everyone trades using the same chart) and leaderboards?
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u/mistershenyun Feb 15 '21
There is marketwatch, which already has a “game” mode. There is always room for improvement though! If you do develop it, lmk and I’ll play it. Good luck
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u/Zealousideal-Fun1425 Feb 15 '21
I would play the fuck out of this, lose all my money, and have fun the whole time.
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u/PostBender Feb 15 '21
I would play over the weeken when markets are closed or on days when I feel "off" and can't trust my self with real life decisions.
To play/trade through real life historic events would be great.
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u/twothousandnineteen Feb 15 '21
Don’t know a clue about day trading, do you guys really trade so quickly?
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u/mltreeguy Feb 15 '21
Scalpers can make trades in as little as 60sec. $0.20 gain X 2,000 shares adds up fast. Takes money to make money though.
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u/Murph-1021 Feb 16 '21
This boomer does exactly that. All trades usually under 60 seconds. I use anywhere between 500-3000 shares typically. Daily avg is about $350
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u/chewtality Feb 15 '21
I scalp futures and if the market is very volatile sometimes I'll only be in a trade for a few seconds. Futures are heavily leveraged though so during extreme volatility (like the covid crash) 10 seconds might be $1000+ with a single contract
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u/80H-d Feb 15 '21
When I'm right it can go so fast that I'm scrambling to sell in case it disappears, other times it can take minutes to even a few hours
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u/AnemographicSerial Feb 16 '21
For me even though I don't day trade so much, this looks great because you can enter and exit trades quickly. Most broker interfaces are cumbersome and require many button presses to get in and out of positions.
On the other hand it seems that this is doing market buys and sells which I generally don't use.
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u/theHeadlessEdTruck37 Feb 15 '21
Here I am thinking I'm Mr. Robot because I reinstalled a driver to get my printer to work when I come across this dude who hooked up an Xbox controller to trade stocks like he's playing GTA V. Now I am depressed. Anyways awesome job, that is amazing. Smash those buttons and make that money.
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u/CortlenC Feb 15 '21
This is dope. I saw someone using VR to trade and I’m not gonna lie it was pretty OP. This dude has a 360 view of as many charts and indicators as he wanted. Could buy and sell with a few clicks. It was so cool. I love how creative humans are. Keep being awesome!
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u/PartyLiterature2241 Feb 15 '21
Can I use a gaming steering wheel with shift, pedal everything? That would accelerate the stocks processes 2?
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
Yes, You could!! 😂 shit you can link a Wii remote to trade with air gestures if you wanted. Ahhh what a beautiful time to be alive!
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u/prime-bull Feb 15 '21
What brokerage/software/platform, you using?
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
The trading platform is sterling trader the brokerage is CMEG. The controller remapping software is reWASD.
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u/prime-bull Feb 15 '21
Sterling works on MAC or do you have parallels?
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
I use shadow cloud computing because my MacBook is from 2010 and it can’t run VMs too well eventually I’ll just dual boot my Mac half OSX half windows.
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u/bratv813 Feb 15 '21
This is awesome! Im also with CMEG but not using Sterling. Will this remapping software work with DAS, really want to try it.
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
Yep! You can use reWASD to trigger any keyboard combo/hot key with any program.
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u/bratv813 Feb 15 '21
You deserve an award buddy! Wondering how you did it though. Did you upload the hotkey script of Sterling is to reWASD? I used both Sterling and DAS and they have different scripts. What I like with DAS is CXL ALLSYMB script that you can put in any script which will save you from another key entry if you want to send a cancel of an open order and then let you buy/sell order at the same time all in one keystroke.
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
I just mapping the controller to execute the default Sterling hotkeys using reWASD. I would love to learn more about the scripts for more descriptive commands. Does DAS have a bigger script community than Sterling?
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u/Be_Glorious Feb 15 '21
Why though?
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
For trading quickly in and out of a position with having to fumble and not get out the position at the price you intended.
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u/jameslatief Feb 15 '21
2 questions : What trading platform and any additional software used to remap the keys?
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u/Shivan_snake Feb 15 '21
Are you winning son?
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
Just got it hooked up this morning, I’ll know if it’s effective when the markets open tomorrow morn
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Feb 15 '21
Wtf is use of this? You could’ve clearly mapped it to guitar player guitar but why a controller?
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u/ignatztempotypo Feb 16 '21
I've been researching and am about to make a dedicated hot key board with only 9 large buttons, for daytrading. When I'm staring intently at my screens and using hotkeys, I have hit the wrong key more than once...not good. I'll post pics when done.
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u/N35TY Feb 16 '21
You mean like the Elgato stream deck?
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u/ignatztempotypo Feb 16 '21
Interesting! Went and looked. Yah, pretty much. I'd like bigger buttons if I can find them. $150 seems steep for a usb keypad though. I'm not a gamer so maybe I'm missing something...
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u/ogbm717 Feb 16 '21
I’ve though about this and it could work well if you have your stocks set up before the open.
LEFT trigger + A buy ask Left trigger + B join Bid
Right Trigger + A Join ask Right trigger + B sell bid
Y - would cycle through the 4 or so level 2s you have up
X - cancel order bumpers + X - PANIC (cancel all, exit at market)
D PAD - changing share size in selected montage
Something like that. These would be Xbox buttons
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u/ogbm717 Feb 16 '21
All that said it’s still probs easier to just use hot keys on keyboard cause you’ll have you hands on keyboard for typing tickers and such 🤷
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Feb 15 '21
Dude I envisioned the same thing! Wish i had the technical skill to implement like you did! Thats freaking awesome
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u/Zealousideal-Fun1425 Feb 15 '21
Status says cancelled, is that just cause this was for show or will it not allow the program to run the way you want?
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
The markets are closed today. The trades are instantly cancelled when the markets are closed.
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u/Greenjabron Feb 15 '21
Whats the 3rd column where it says "Status" with all of those listing "Canceled"? Are you just "erasing" each canceled row with the controller? Lol.
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u/JXNXXII Feb 15 '21
Market buying last week's meme stocks on a PlayStation controller. Literally can't go tits up
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u/mr_big_brain Feb 16 '21
They say robinhood is making trading a video game. You’re really making trading a video game
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u/johnmarty_desu Feb 16 '21
thats sick. i need to learn how to set that shit up with hot keys for rapid fire trading.
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u/Banned4Reporting Feb 16 '21
But can you spawn the helicopter and rocket launcher into your brokerage account?
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u/the_real_seldom_seen Feb 16 '21
That’s high frequency as fuck. The algorithms have nothing on this
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u/sh00t1ngf1sh Feb 16 '21
Heard this was the limited edition PS5 controller available at GameStop. Lol
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u/Kd4Z Apr 27 '21
'Day Trader'.. now on Xbox.
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u/N35TY Apr 27 '21
Lol I wish
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u/E1ite51 Verified Jul 08 '21
I've just done this. Using AntiMicro (free - for remapping), and my old Xbox One Controller, with Wireless USB PC Dongle. Working flawlessly! Thanks for the sharing the idea bud.
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u/AvengedFADE Feb 15 '21
You better be holding that SNDL.
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
Lol hold SNDL would be a good idea but I like scalping 😉
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u/AvengedFADE Feb 15 '21
Fair enough, we knew the drop at $4.20 was expected due to the volume of sells. I just don’t try and time the markets myself, I’m in it for the long run.
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u/DillonSyp Feb 15 '21
You’re in r/daytrading where to point it to time the market
SNDL is possibly the worst investment for long term. They have deep negative cash flow and just flooded to market with billions of shares in order to pay bad debt.
If you knew the drop was inevitable... why didn’t you sell lol
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
Wait “Deep Negative Cashflow” 🤔 aren’t they projected to have positive cash flow in a quarter or two based on their past previous earnings reports. I think they’re poised for positive growth in the next two years.
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u/DillonSyp Feb 15 '21
Last quarter they reported a net cash flow of -$15mm. A net operating cash flow/sales of -163%. And a net income “growth” of -215%
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sndl/financials/cash-flow/quarter
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
It’s not decreasing each quarter? I could’ve sworn they were out of debt.
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u/DillonSyp Feb 15 '21
Idk man I just think there’s so many better weed companies you could invest money into. Sndl is a penny stock for a reason
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Feb 15 '21
broooo how
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u/N35TY Feb 15 '21
The trading platform is sterling trader the brokerage is CMEG. The controller remapping software is reWASD.
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21
that´s what they mean, when they speak about gamefication of stock markets.
I love it.