 Hi everyone. This is Paul Lang and I'm doing a little demonstration video on how to set up hotkeys on the DOS platform. I want to make it clear. I do not use this platform. I downloaded a trial version just to show people how to set up these keys because there seem to be several people that had some confusion and I have set up hotkeys on various platforms that I have used so I didn't think it would be that big of a deal to figure out how to do this. It actually was very simple to do. I kind of took a little shortcut that may be preventing some of you from doing it effectively, but let's take a look how to do it. From the platform, you just want to go to setup and then go to hotkey. Okay, and I'm trying to keep the window small so I'm just going to move this out of the way. Whoops, wrong one. I want to move that out of the way so it's not in our way this whole time. Then of course you will have this open right down here and this is the hotkey little configuration panel that comes up. Now in here you will find already built-in or all of these pre-marked things. They do not have a key assigned. If you want to use any one of these, you just simply click here and hit the key combination that you want like control 1 or whatever. That's already been used because I used it on something, control control P and there it is. Okay, and that's all you have to do. I'm going to edit that and get rid of that. If I want to use a key for something else, just delete key and it'll take that out of there. Okay, so then down here, and there's a couple in here you may want to use and assign keys to. But a lot of these, I think what they make it confusing is that they try and tell you to build your own hotkeys from using their pre-configured ones here, but it's really the more difficult way to do it. But a couple that are in here, like I picked up one of them and assigned it a hotkey close all positions. I put control shift Q. Of course, you will want to put your own keys that you want these to represent. But there may be some others here you find. But let's just talk about how you want to do this. The first thing you need to do is actually decide what hotkeys you want. And this is a typical structure of what you would do and set this up in an Excel sheet or something first. But there's really just three things you want to decide what you want to do. And that is, well, you want to pick the route that you want to use and that's up to you. What route you use, generally whatever platform you're on, I typically go with the default route or go with ARCO. But if you have a specific route, that's great. That's a different issue. But whatever route you want to use. And you could pick different routes or different hotkeys if you have a desire to do that. But I'm going to use ARCO for every route. And then the variables are the shares that you want to buy, whether you're buying or selling. And the third thing is whether you're going to buy, for example, right at the offer. Or if you want to limit the order to go up to three cents above the author or five cents or 10. So what I'm using the variables here, I'm using share size ranging from 500 to 3000 shares. And I'm using a offer plus three cents, five cents and 10 cents to buy. So the first set of hotkeys would be to buy 500 shares on ARCO, three cents at the offer, then three cents over and then five cents over, then 10 cents over. Now, you have to decide that that would be a lot of hotkeys. And you have to decide based on the stocks that you trade. If you're trading very liquid stocks all the time, you'd never need 10 cents over. If you're trading always 10 to $20 stocks, maybe you know you're always buying between two and 4,000 shares. So that's the only hotkeys you need. Don't forget, you can still trade. It's just that you don't have a hotkey set up for it. So I'm just showing you a wide range of examples here of what you might use. So figure out the share size range you would have. And then for each share size amount, you're going to need to be buying at the offer. I don't have that listed here, but then the offer plus three offer plus five. Okay. So map out what you want to do ahead of time. And then to set up the hotkey, and I imagine most of you already have that done, but then to set up the hotkeys, it's really pretty simple. I set some up in here and here's the instructions up here. Click on add to add a new one. And then the key is that I think is a shortcut is to copy this right here. Copy that right there. That is just like a general formula. And you can see I set some up in here, like I have bid, buy at the offer. Okay. So the routers are, the price is exactly on the ask and the shares 500 buy. And I've tried this, hit control one, it works. It buys 500 shares right at the offer. If the stock is a little spreadier, here's buy at the offer plus three cents. Okay. And sell it to bid, sell it to bid minus three. Just for example, let's go ahead and set up the next couple of shares. So I use control one and control two to buy. I say three and four for buying a thousand at the offer and buying a thousand plus three. I'll show you how simple it is to do here. So I'm going to add a new item. There we go. And I'm going to call this, let's stay consistent with what I've done here. I called it buy offer plus three. So I'm going to call this B offer plus five, five cents. Okay. The hotkey is going to be control one, two control three. I think if I follow the pattern I'm doing. And again, you have to decide. Another nice thing about DOS actually is that it lets you use the number pad and the numerical buttons on top of the keyboard separately. So you could have control one is one hotkey. So it suggests that you might want to put control one through zero as buying hotkeys and then use the keypad control one through zero as selling hotkeys. I mean, however you want to set up, that's up to you. That's not the point of this. That's just an organizational thing. And then in the script here, what I copied up here, I'm going to paste that here. Now this is probably where the shortcut is that helps. You can go through and try and build this one thing at a time and it's more confusing. If you put too many things and it doesn't work, just simply paste this thing I have here and then change what you want to change. You want to change the route, change the route. You want to change the ask, change the ask. Now I decided on this one, this is going to be, I had buy it offer. So I want to buy it offer a thousand shares. So I'm going to be buy at the ask, ask is the offer, same thing, plus nothing. So I'm just going to erase that. Boom. Shares equal. I'm going to change to 1000 and buy and that's it. Okay. And you just simply, you all you have to do is drop down and you have to commit. Oh, yeah, I put the hot key in there and boom, boom, boom. There we go. And it is all set. Now one little word of warning, if you want to try this out, you need to hit OK, close out and reopen the hot key configuration. It won't work until you close it out. Okay. So that's all it is to do. The next key I would want to do then, of course, I have one, two, three, my next key control four. I want to be buying a thousand shares offer plus three cents. Let me do that one for you as well. Just so we got the idea here. So I'm going to paste my script in there again. This is going to be buy. Again, I can't remember for some reason what I'm calling these by offer plus plus three. I guess really that names should have the sure size in there, right? You know, you don't have to to see know what they are. I'm just going to leave it like that. You know that the different hockey is at different amounts. So here I'm going to be buying at the ask plus three cents because I could want to copy was already there. So 1000 boom, boom, boom. Oh, shouldn't I copy too much? It shouldn't say in the script field. Did you anybody catch that when I did that a second ago? I'm not going to fix the video, but it should just say that. Obviously, when I went up here and copied, I copied too much. That's all it should be. So boom, boom, boom. Hotkey is going to be control four. I think I'm on right. Control four and commit and there it is. But actually this works well. Actually, I did that on purpose because now we're going to go back and fix this one. So all you do is select the one you want and edit this. I know I just double clicked on it and boom, boom, boom, boom and get rid of all this extra verbiage I put in. So buy is the last word by boom, boom, boom. Okay, commit. So here I added two more keys. Arca at ask, thousand shares by for three and then for Arca at ask plus three cents by I tested the first two. They work just fine. I'm sure those will work. And then you go through and you do this. And obviously, if you want to change the cell to the buy to a cell, you simply are going to put in here that you're going to be sell at the end. S C L L like these are instead of buy, change that to make the cells. And also, if you a nice little one, if you when you're entering the position you're buying or selling, but it would be nice when you get out of the position to not have to worry about how many shares you have. And you can do that by I created when you're called cell position. And instead of the share size, you put in POS. So this is selling. If you're long a position has selling at Arca right at the bid minus three cents and the shares are going to be whatever your position sizes. So if you just want to exit a position, doesn't matter. You have two thousand, three thousand, you don't have to find the right hockey. Just do that. And then also in here, I picked up a and again, you just do that simply by pasting that same formula I had, but just changing the share size to POS instead of a number. And that'll represent your position, whatever it is in that stock. And then I picked up on one of the one that's built in here is close all positions. I just signed a hot key to that too. So you can also use that if you have only one position open, you hit that and boom, it closes out that position. If you have two positions open or closing both up. So that's all there is to do this really pretty simple and straightforward. Go through and create whatever keys you want, buy and sell, different share size, different amounts over or under the bid or the ask. And then just assign the hot keys that you want to use. And that's up to your organization. All right. You can see all the information on the screen there. There shouldn't be a need for anything else. But if you do have something else, you can email me, Paul, at the stock, switch.com. Again, I'm not going to have this platform all the time. So I may not be a tremendous help, but it is pretty simple and straightforward. It should take you like, well, you just saw me do it. And it should take you, you know, if you're going to set up eight basic hockey, should take like 15 minutes to do it. And you should be good to go. All right. Thanks everybody.