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Hotkey Safety Mode
Lock risk after keybinding changes
Traders report accidental trades after changing hotkeys or platform settings. This recipe forces a test step and temporarily reduces risk after any hotkey/layout change.
House RecipePersonal3 min setup
INGREDIENTS
🔔Notifications
PROMPT
Create "Hotkey Safety Mode". When I say I've changed hotkeys/settings: require a dry-run checklist, then cap the next 3 trades at 50% normal size and tag them "post-hotkey-change".
Pain point
Small platform changes can create big execution mistakes.
Triggers
- Manual: user indicates hotkeys changed (or config file changed)
Conditions
- Applies only same day as change
Actions
- Require a "dry run" checklist: verify buy/sell, qty, bracket keys
- Reduce max position size for first N trades
- Tag trades: "post-hotkey-change"
Parameters (defaults)
- reducedRiskTradesCount: 3
- reducedRiskMultiplier: 0.5
Examples
- After hotkey changes, first 3 trades are capped at 50% normal size.
- If an error occurs, enforce a 15-minute reset break.
Tags:#trading#execution#hotkeys#safety