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Date/Time: Mon, 20 May 2024 15:24:54 +0000

Post From: How to setup custom buttons for buy/sell limit order with rest to brackets

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sean3000 - Posts: 37
I am working around this with a hotkey program called Macro Express 5. Other hotkey programs like AutoHotKey were not reliable in my experience. I added right click menu options for Buy Limit and Sell Limit in Sierra Chart as described in post 5, putting them first in the list. Then, I created a macro that performs this sequence when I press a hotkey, such as ALT+B. Right click > 20ms delay > Press B key > 20ms delay > Press Enter This opens the context menu, highlights the Buy Limit option with "B", then selects it with "Enter." The short delays give the system enough time to react to the commands. For Sell Limit, just create another macro and replace the "B" with "S". This method works well but has limitations, the main one being if you invoke the shortcut over a drawing it brings up the drawing context menu and the macro may not work as expected. Also, you can't move the mouse while the macro is playing or you might select the wrong menu option or price. Since Sierra Chart can handle placing limit orders at the cursor from the right click menu, I hope that we will soon have the ability to add a hotkey for these commands.