Assign keyboard shortcuts "hotkeys"

Dear TT-Team,

I would like to add the following to dotrading9's request concerning hotkeys:

In X-Trader it was possible to create a hotkey for "market sell", "market buy" and for "liquidate". This was a very fast and convenient way to manage my orders (market orders and liquidate with left hand on keyboard and limit orders with right hand in price ladder with mouse). In TT there are many hotkeys to choose from, but there is no possibility to create the above mentioned hotkeys. I would really like to start trading with TT, so my question: are there plans to include these hotkeys at some point in the future?

Kind regards!

Yes, you have to set up the hotkeys on, MD Trader, TT, not to mention the hotkeys for drawning tools, charts ...the ability to create any custom hotkeys.

Thank you.

The difficulty with this is that X-Trader is a locally installed desktop app where as TT is browser based which introduces all kinds of potential problems.This is because location of the configuration file that X-Trader uses is on your hard drive while in TT these shortcuts would not persist across other computers or platforms.However this would be doable in TT Desktop.

Hi Daniel,
Yes, I was referring to TT Desktop.It would be perfect if we could use and create shortcuts.Thank you.

Thank you Daniel for your comment. Now I understand why there are no hotkeys for "market buy/sell" and "liquidate" in TT web. You described it as a matter of location (web vs. local computer). As I would use TT Desktop anyway instead of TT web, I would appreciate it very much if TT programmers could include those hotkeys in TT Desktop.

I recently raised a ticket for this feature and awaiting some feedback from feature support but in the meantime..specifically how currently there is no way to use KB Hotkeys to trigger actual limit orders for TT Order Types or ADL Algos. Looking for feedback or possibly a few more traders/customer to chime in and make requests.

Basically when you select a TT Order type or ADL Algo whether from the drop down list or if it is assigned to an MDT "custom action" button and you enable this on MDT...MDT is put into a "ready" state waiting for a limit price input. Now suppose you activate TT Bracket on MDT with either of the above methods.When you click on a specific price on MDT price ladder...the algo starts as it now has a limit price. Now suppose you set up a kb hotkey tied to a buy limit...if you select an algo on MDT be that a TT Order Type or your ADL algo which is basically waiting for a limit price...and you hit that kb hotkey which sends the best bid price...instead of sending this price to the algo..MDT basically turns off and ignores the MDT state or algo mode that MDT was set to..and sends a plain buy limit order.

This is a basic feature that should be part of the KB hotkeys.MDT's current state or mode should accept a limit price since whether clicking on a specific price on the ladder or the kb hotkey using best bid is a limit price.

Feedback appreciated.
Thanks