May 29, 2007
Congratulations, You Just Got Stopped Out for a Loss
It’s important that your trading alerts have positive sounds attached, even if they’re to alert you that you’ve just lost money. Whenever a stop is hit I hear one of these three sounds. The tighter the stop, the louder the accolades. ;-)
Stop Alert 1 - Tight
Stop Alert 2 - Tighter
Stop Alert 3 - Tightest
(Right click to save to your own computer.)
The worst thing you can do is have alerts that sound like this one:
Cat: | Time: 10:30 pm (utc+8)
May 29th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Hmmm, that buzzer sounds familiar. Do you use BracketTrader by some chance?
May 30th, 2007 at 4:07 am
I set up similar sounds for my trading platform, but when I was lacking .wav files I decided to use the windows startup and shutdown sounds…
A friend was there one day when an order got filled, and he freaked out, thinking that my computer decided to shut down despite the fact that we were both 3 feet away from it at the time…
May 30th, 2007 at 8:18 am
stevegee: The buzzer is from Qcharts.
Jason: That would freak me out too because I’ve had such horrifying experiences with Windows. ;-)
May 30th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I could just play those sounds in a loop in my mp3 player and simulate my actual trading results!
May 30th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
great idea
the sound of my stops has always made me cringe, I’m changing it now
May 30th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Great idea, Maoxian. I’m going to revamp my alert based on this.
I’ve always thought some voice based alerts would be cool - have your alert play a sound and then speak what the alert was along with the symbol.