Using Auto Control Extension (Windows Only) - cargocultscience/topstepx GitHub Wiki

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Ensure that you have the "Order Panel" somewhere on the TSX page layout. DOM traders take note, you may have turned this off.
Download the following extension for Chrome https://www.autocontrol.app/
Import the following file topstep-auto-control.acs into the extension
Once the file is loaded you should see sections like the following
You may use your keyboard to execute any of the mapped shortcut

StreamDeck

StreamDeck profile for TopStepX Hotkeys can be downloaded here TopStepX.Cargocult.streamDeckProfile

Order Buttons

Buy
Sell
Join Bid
Join Ask
Close
Reverse
Cancel Orders
Flatten All
Cancel All

Set Quantity

Hotkeys for setting the value of the quantity box to 1,2,3,4,5,10,15

Market Buy/Sell Quantity

Hotkeys for buy/sell of 1,2,3,4,5,10,15

Join Passive Side of Book At Fixed Quantity

Hotkeys for buy/sell of 1,2,3,4,5,10,15

Change contract

Generic function added to switch to any symbol
es, nq, gc, cl, ym, nkd, rty, si, mnq, mes explicitly mapped to numpad 1-9

Change account

Account changing works by matching any part of a string (eg 'ACCOUNTFEB123' will match on '123'). Therefore make sure that the strings you use to reference accounts are unique relative to your set of account names. I typically will use the last 5 digits of the account number.

Since everyone's account numbers will be different, and we wish to allow updates to the hotkey code to not wipe out peoples account data, we will allow for a small config file to live on the user's machine that is referenced by the hotkey system.

By default this file is expected to be at C:\topstepx\hotkey-configs.js. I suggest you put your file here to make hotkey updates easier in the future. If you choose a different location that is ok but you will need to repoint to the new location when you take up a new AutoControl file (eg when a new feature is added)

The format of the account switching config is relatively simple

hotkey_accounts = ['practice', '12345']

The order in which the accounts appears in the above will determine which account maps to which hotkey.
The way that this will work is that up to 20 (more can be added if needed) accounts are mapped to hotkeys:

ctrl + numpad1...numpad0 for accounts 1-10
alt + numpad1..numpad0 for accounts 11-20

For the example above 'practice' appears in position 1, the first account that matches 'practice' will be switched to when ctrl+numpad1 is pressed. Similarly, '12345' appears in position 2 and therefore the first account that matches '12345' will be selected when ctrl+numpad2 is pressed.

Installing and Editing Config

Install

sample config can be found here: https://github.com/cargocultscience/topstepx/blob/main/hotkeys/hotkey-config.js
download the config and install it somewhere on your machine. I highly recommend using C:\topstepx\ as a directory to avoid needing to make edits on hotkey code updates in the future.

Edit

you may use any text editor to change the value of the config to match your accounts
additionally you may use AutoControls built in editor and edit the script "TopStepX Load Config"

StreamDeck

once this is in place you can map any StreamDeck key to the account switch key sequences defined above