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A Single Hotkey to trade..

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[2024-07-01 20:04:54] #1 [Go To First Post]
User763335 - Posts: 76
Hello, I'd like to assign a specific(pre-saved) Trade Window Configuration and Order quantity(# of contracts) and place a Buy(or Sell) Limit(or Market) Order with attached orders(1 stop & 1 target), with a single Keyboard hotkey. I understand, I can choose a specific Trade window configuration with a keyboard hotkey, another shortcut for setting the Order quantity Button and another for issuing a buy or sell order .., but couldnt find an option in the documentation to perform all the above with a single hotkey. I'm used to trading purely with keyboard hotkeys with DasTrader triggered through Streamdeck for Equities and would like to do the same with Emini futures with SC. Can you pls assist? thanks Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-07-01 21:23:17

[2024-07-02 02:20:48] #2 [Go To First Post]
User763335 - Posts: 76
"Custom Trading Keyboard Shortcuts" could possibly help here, but it is limited in the parameters it can control(limited to "Trade Type", "Order Type", "Reference Price" and "Offset from Reference point"). If this can be expanded to include "Trade window configuration", "Order quantity", than that'd be really helpful in cutting down the number of different keyboard shortcuts and mouse-clicks to execute and possibly reduce it to 1 hotkey.

[2024-07-02 19:37:39] #3 [Go To First Post]
User763335 - Posts: 76
following up..

[2024-07-02 21:53:44] #4 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 35333
There is not a way to do this with the built-in tools in Sierra Chart. You could create a Custom Study that would use a Custom Control Bar Button and then you can create a Keyboard Shortcut to that Control Bar button. Refer to the following: Advanced Custom Study Interaction With Menus, Control Bar Buttons, Pointer Events For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-07-03 18:58:50] #5 [Go To First Post]
User763335 - Posts: 76
Thanks for the response, but seems very complicated for what I'm trying to do. If you guys can include "Trade window configuration" and "Order quantity" to the ""Custom Trading Keyboard Shortcuts"--> "Customize Trading Command" window options, it'll enable the users to specify the predefined configuration and order qty , right there..and simply use these different shortcuts. Should be a simpler solution, than advanced custom study, custom control bar buttons etc IMHO In any case, I was able to create Custom Control Bar buttons to assign interested Trade Window Configuration and keyboard shortcut to trigger it. Another set of keyboard hotkeys for "Custom trading keyboard shortcuts" for buy/sell limit/market orders. Once these were in place, I was able to string together these two set of keyboard hotkeys to a single hotkey for each of the orders, using Streamdeck MultiAction. Seems to work fine, so far in SIM. Thanks

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