HOTKEYS - Chart Parameters ChartType, Draw, Period, Frequency (beta)

[Kasper]

Minor issue: When using this feature to change frequency, chart period changes to All data even when no change is selected for period.

[Mike Medved]

Are you sure you don't have Period in that hotkey?

I just tried this:

 

And it just switches frequency...

Ok i see it. If NoChange, it is not really NoChange If the period is NOT THERE it works as it should.

 

Will fix. For now just remove the Period.

[Kasper]

Thanks Mike, you are right, it does work properly if I delete option not needed a change.

I hope you recall I requested a feature for special hotkey variable that prompts user for ad-hoc input to be used in hotkey conditional. There are many use cases but it can be very useful to in this case that only one or two hotkeys can perform numerous changes on chart quickly. Other use cases I had in mind was entering ad-hoc limit price, stop price and quantity etc. UI can be simple but functional like CTRL+K hotkey prompt.

[Mike Medved]

Hm - the whole point of hotkeys is you hit the key and magic! something happens. What you propose would not be like that...

I will think about this.

[Kasper]

You are right, MT hotkeys do add some magic to trading 🙂. For me, passing ad-hoc values and reducing number of hotkeys to memorize is two of the possibilities. I am sure others may discover many more ways to take advantage of it. You can potentially phase out exiting hard codes shortcuts for chart frequency and period.