Use hotkeys to give you a winning edge

Hotkeys are able to provide you, a professional trader, with the power of lightning fast execution,
putting you in the driving seat of all your trades.

This manual will teach you how to how to

program your hotkeys in a way that prioritises
your price entry, over many other traders, by
being one step ahead of others, beating the
best current buy or sell price for your stock all
within the press of a button.

Your trading platform has a list

of over 200 predefined hot
keys, many of which are very
useful and can be used with
any alterations.

Hotkey Function

Assigned keyboard shortcut.

Hotkey script.

To assign a keyboard shortcut to a predefined hot key, left click the hot key column and enter in
the desired shortcut.

Example:
We want our platform to have a keyboard function where; when we press Ctrl + B, we buy shares
at market price. (This hotkey will have the same function as clicking the BUY button in the
Level 2 window.)

One entered, insure to save your hot key by clicking; Save Keys on your platforms Hot Key
Configure window.

Once you have entered the keyboard shortcut into the Hot Key column, insure to check the
Enable Hot Key checkbox.
To delete a hot key, left click on the assigned hot key and press the delete button within the hot
key configure menu. Multiple keys can be deleted at once also using this method.

The hot buttons are found by extending the level 1 data section of the trading window, more
settings along with the hot buttons can be found here.

Hot buttons, alike hot keys can be programmed in order to perform a trading function once
triggered, although hot buttons are clicked as appose to being set as a keyboard toggle.

The platform provides five hotkey slots that can be used in conjunction with the default trade
buttons.

Right click the hot button in

order to open the configure
menu.

No function, Label.

Select Hotkey .
(Applies to both custom and
default hotkeys.)

Example:
We want to add a button that closes all market positions, a panic button.

To do this we;
Named the button PANIC.
Selected an appropriate background colour.
Then, selected the default hotkey; Close All Positions at Market to assign to the hot button.

Insure that hot buttons are ready to use by clicking the Enable Button toggle within the Hot
Buttons Configure window.
 Add your preferred trading functions to your trading platform

Custom Hotkeys allow you to add the power of lightning fast execution to your specific trading
strategy and style.

[ROUTE]; [TRADE VARIABLE/TRIGGER CONDITION]; [SHARE SIZE]; [ORDER]

(Does not apply to all hotkeys).
(Insure that the hotkey script components are separated using semi-colons).

The route dictates which Electronic Communications Network (ECN) your order is directed though.

The route is entered in the following format into the hotkey script:
Route=[Route Abbreviation][Order Type Abbreviation]
(e.g. NSDQL, meaning NASDAQ Long Position)

When trading stocks, there are two ECNs that the stock you are trading can be traded through;

- Archipelago Exchange for NYSE stocks. (ROUTE ABBREVIATION: ARCA).

- NASDAQ for NASDAQ stocks. (ROUTE ABBREVIATION: NSDQ).

There are three types of orders for stock trading:

- Limit (ABBREVIATION: L)
- Market (ABBREVIATION: M)
- Stop (ABBREVIATION: S)

The type of order is dependent on the overall function of the hotkey.

(E.g. When setting a trailing stop on a NASDAQ traded stock you will enter; NSDQS).

Stock Trading Routes:

Route Description Hotkey Format

NASDAQ stock, Limit Order Route=NSDQL
NASDAQ stock, Market Order Route=NSDQM
NASDAQ stock, Stop Order Route=NSDQS
NYSE stock, Limit Order Route=ARCAL
NYSE stock, Market Order Route=ARCAM
NYSE stock, Stop Order Route=ARCAS

The route dictates which Electronic Communications Network (ECN) your order is directed though.

When trading CFDs the route is always simply entered as CFDR.

Hotkey Format:
Route=CFDR

The order type is typed after the route in CFD hotkeys.

CFD Routes:

CFD Order type Hotkey Format

CFD Limit Order Route=CFDR; Order Type=Limit
CFD Market Order Route=CFDR; Order Type=Market
CFD Stop Order Route=CFDR; Order Type=Stop
CFD Stop Limit Order Route=CFDR; Order Type=StopLimit
CFD Trailing($)Order Route=CFDR; Order Type=Trailing($)
CFD Trailing(%)Order Route=CFDR; Order Type= Trailing(%)

This can be considered as the trigger condition of the trade.

These are important in insuring that the order is executed when and where you wanted it to.

Example:
You wanted to short AAPL at a $150 breakdown, and wanted to increase your chances of
entering the trade in your entry bracket.

You could use a hotkey with a trigger price of the current bid price, minus 0.01, to insure that you
get the best possible fill into your trade.

E.g. TriggerPrice=Bid- 0.01

To add to this, you could also add a limit price to your hotkey to insure that you dont get a fill post
a gap down or fast breakdown.

E.g. LimitPrice=Bid-0.1 (This will provide you with a 9 cent short bracket for you trade).

The combined hotkey variable would be;

TriggerPrice=Bid- 0.01; LimitPrice=Bid-0.1

(More trade variables will be discussed in the examples)

Share size format examples:

Share Size Description Hotkey Format

+400 shares Share=400
-400 shares Share=-400
Three quarters of Existing Position Share=3/4Pos
Half of Existing Position Share=1/2Pos
All of Current Position Share=Pos

Pos=Current Position

The order is simply entered as a BUY or SELL.

E.g. ; BUY

Hot Key Script Description

Home DEFAULT Load Default Order
Ctrl+KeyUp BUY Buy
Ctrl+S SELL Sell
Ctrl+KeyDown SHORT Short
Ctrl+KeyRight Route=NSDQL;OrderType=Market;Share=3/4Pos;BUY 3/4 Cover
Ctrl+KeyLeft Route=NSDQL;OrderType=Market;Share=3/4Pos;BUY 3/4 Buy
Ctrl+R8 Route=NSDQS;orderType=Trailing($);Trailing($)=0.05;Share=Pos;SELL Trailing ($) Cover
Stop for Remaining
Shares
Ctrl+R2 Route=NSDQS;orderType=Trailing($);Trailing($)=0.05;Share=Pos;BUY Trailing ($) Buy Stop
for Remaining
Shares
Ctrl+Alt+R0 PANIC Close all active
positions

Hot Key Script Description

Home DEFAULT Load Default Order
Ctrl+KeyUp BUY Buy
Ctrl+S SELL Sell
Ctrl+KeyDown SHORT Short
Ctrl+KeyRight Route=CFDR;OrderType=Market;Share=3/4Pos;SELL 3/4 Cover
Ctrl+KeyLeft Route=CRDR;OrderType=Market;Share=3/4Pos;BUY 3/4 Buy
Ctrl+R8 Route=CFDR;OrderType=Trailing($);Trailing($)=0.05;Share=Pos;SELL Trailing ($) Cover
Stop for Remaining
Shares
Ctrl+R2 Route=CFDR;OrderType=Trailing($);Trailing($)=0.05;Share=Pos;BUY Trailing ($) Buy Stop
for Remaining
Shares
Ctrl+Alt+R0 PANIC Close all active
positions

This is an example of
how hot buttons can
be personalised
in order to input share
sizes that are commonly
used by you and your
strategies.

3/4 partial points, hot

buttons were also
added to the hot
button bar in this
example.

While testing hotkeys insure to test hotkey functions with small share sizes to minimise a potential
loss due initial input and execution mistakes (or possibly test hotkeys on a demo platform).

Hotkeys are saved in the hotkey.cfg file in your platform software folder this allows for
sharing/copying hotkeys, also to; store and interchange between multiple hotkey settings.