<aside> 🌐 Warning: When keyboard shortcuts are enabled in Sierra Chart, there is a new risk of accidently placing trades or other unintentional actions. Users should be mindful, and consider use of the LOCK feature.

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Configure Hotkeys

Hotkeys, or keyboard shortcuts are an excellent way to reduce time on operations. From tools to trading, hotkeys save critical seconds when trading.

• Title Bar: Global Settings > Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
• Select the desired shortcut (Example: Trading Keyboard Shortcuts > Buy Market)
• Choose the key and press Assign
• OK

Next, we must enable hotkeys for charts and DOMs. By default, it’s disabled to prevent accidental shortcuts.

Enable hotkeys DOM:

• Click the Menu button of the Trade Order Window (for the DOM)
• Check by selecting “Trading Keyboard Shortcuts Enabled”

Enable hotkeys for chart:

• Select the desired chart to enable hotkeys on
• Title Bar: Trade > Trading Keyboard Shortcuts Enabled is checked

Common Hotkeys for Intraday Trading

• Buy/Sell Market

• Flatten and Cancel

• Cancel All (orders)

• Move to breakeven

• recenter DOM

• toggle attached orders

• stop tick up/down

• target order up/down