 Hey everybody Austin here. So I wanted to do a quick video going over hotkeys. This is a topic I see a lot in Saturday Q&A's and I get asked a lot personally about hotkeys and before I get started I just got to say I am not registered I'm not licensed. I'm on a financial advisor. None of what I say should be taken as investment advice Even if it sounds like it on this video or any of my videos Anyway, yeah hotkeys so I use them a lot of my trading and I use them primarily in two out of the three Facets of trading so I use them for my entries most of the time. I would say like 95% of my entries are Through hotkey and about 100% of my stops are through hotkeys I rarely rarely rarely ever put a stop in and Wait for that stop to get hit I hit the button when it my stop hits and that's it so for entries and stops I'm always using hotkeys for Profit taking ideally that's the part you're going to get to on every trade right for profit taking my orders are normally out there waiting to be waiting to be hit so Two out of three. I'm always using hotkeys and I I don't use hotkeys a lot for profit taking unless I cancel an order and And I want to get some out right then in there You know, that's If it's spiking and going parabolic and like oh crap I got to take some off like right now That's you know, I'll do that, you know If I if I if I wasn't ready if I didn't have if I didn't have a key already in and honestly I think that's exactly what happened with OCX but Anyway, so yeah, let's let's get to it. So I took a picture of my keyboard Just now and I use the course here. I think it's like the k95 something Or something like that, but it has this row of 18 hotkeys, which is is God to me This my life. I love this keyboard like I'm not I'm not sponsoring everything but this keyboard I love so anyway, I separate so this is it where I would say most of my hotkeys are taking place where I enter and I want to get This out of the way first when I say hotkeys I don't mean like the typical like, you know, the the stigma attached market order hot button or hot key Or you know, you hit the button and you're in it doesn't matter what price you're in it, you know You just get in and you get out like, you know, like we're I don't know foos will tell you that I use hotkeys because it's faster to get in I mean, I do use hotkeys because they're faster, but all of mine are Limit orders none of my hotkeys are ever a market order because I care what price I get in You know, it's not random. So you'll see here I have three different tiers the one through six seven through 12 and 13 through 18 and these hotkeys Are separated in tiers of size So all of the reds are shorts and all the greens are our buys or cells and buys and the top Like so my G1 key is 50 shares 50 shares G2 is a hundred chairs and G3 is 300 and underneath This is 50 100 and 300 These are these are for cells and these are for buys And so like these are what I use for large cap trading or like if I want to trade Amazon or something And my next tier below is G7 is 500 chairs G8 is a thousand shares and G9 is 2,000 chairs and G G 10 is the same 500 1,000 and 2,000 here at G12 and so one thing to and G I just got there G 13 is 1,000 G 14 is 2,500 and G 15 is 5,000 So and one thing to note with all of these is all of these red all of these red Hotkeys these red buttons are tied to the bid and all of the green hotkeys are limit orders tied to the ask And so if I hit G8 that is a 1,000 share cell or short tied to the bid So the G8 if I hit one if I hit G8, it's gonna send a 1,000 share limit order to sell three cents below the bid. That's what I do. I always do three cents below Or above for the asks So and I do that because a lot of it when I what I do is I short break downs or I buy breakouts And so when I need to get in or get out I need to get filled and a lot of these times where I getting in it's like they're about to break They're about to spike high of day or they're about to tank and and I you know, I don't want to short at five Get like five shares filled and you know watch it tank without me. I'm okay with 498 and 490 9 and 497 I'm okay with you know, that's essentially the same for me Also, like when I want to get out of a position. I don't care, you know, if I get out a few cents later It's better than not getting filled at all So that's one thing that's one very key element about my hotkeys They're all the short sash cells are all tied to the bid and the and the green the buys or covers are all tied to the ask so like if I want to Buy 300 chairs Of Apple, I know if I'm buying a breakout on Apple. I'm gonna hit g6 for 300 chairs and It's gonna be the ass plus point of three now for Apple it might actually I might still not get that filled because that's a very high price range, but You know, I'm it's going if I wanted to buy a hundred dollar breakout on Apple Then I am going to it's gonna send a 300 share order to buy at 103 cents Make sense So I have a three cent cushion on all all my hotkeys Over here on the left and I also have a couple random hotkeys too So in my keyboard control X is a cancel order So like I said if if a stock is going parabolic and I just bought a five dollar breakout And I put an order a manual order to sell at like 545 to sell the 4550 resistance But it's starting to get stuffy at five dollars and 30 cents on I'm afraid it's going to I'm afraid It's gonna to stuff here then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit control X That's gonna cancel the order that I just the sell that I just put at 545 And what I can do instead is just hit one of these hotkeys to sell my position You know, I can hit whatever size I'm in I can hit one of these hotkeys to Sell it right then and there so that's the rare time where I will use a hotkey to take profit But normally all of my profit-taking orders are manually put in and I'm waiting Another random one is control. Oh Now this is the control out for me. It means GTFO liquidate all positions and and GT and GTFO it gives me a lot of comfort knowing that I have this key Whenever I need to in case anything goes bad and and I did you know I come back to my computer have to go into the bathroom or something and an offering hit on a couple of my positions Or I don't know, you know, I know that I can get out immediately. It's gonna liquidate my it's gonna liquidate my account Another one that I have is you'll notice that the control and alt are different colors This is because I have a separate hotkey system over here with on my number pad now. I use I only use the first four keys The one I treat these as fractions one two three and four I treat this as one hundred percent one over one One at the two is like a fifty percent one over two the three is a third one over three and the fourth is a fourth one over four So these count as one hundred fifty 33.3 and twenty five percent of my position. So The control is a by order and the alt is a sell order and the way I remember this is control for cover They both start with C So if I want to if I'm short of stock and it just tanked hard like an offering happened And it just tanked if I want to cover half of my position immediately then I will hit control two And that will put a cover order or a buy order out for half fifty percent of my position Or if I only wanted to cover a quarter I would hit control four and it would and it would cover and it would send a buy order out Tied to the ask Plus point oh three. Actually, I think my number pads are plus point oh five to be ultra safe But I will put a cover order out for twenty five percent of my position by hitting control four twenty five 25% of my position is gone Another way I do this as if I want to double so like let's say I'm in a stock I bought some dips and it's about to break out the low that I really care about and I want to double my position if I have a Position on and I hit control one that's going to buy essentially 100% of my position So if I'm like in 1000 shares if I hit control one It's gonna send a 1000 share order to make to get myself up to 2000 shares Some you know something like that So and the same way for for for alt, you know for selling if I'm short and I want to double I hit alt one And I'll double my position, you know assuming I have the locates Or you know if I want to if if I'm long a stock and it just went parabolic and I don't I don't have orders out And I want to sell some I might hit alt three and that's gonna immediately sell a third of my position And they're all limit orders tied, you know tied to the bids and that's it's very important I don't have any market order hotkeys, you know, I care about the the the the fill now Normally like I've never had a problem ever getting a like, you know, sometimes I get fat fingers, you know and in the time when you hit the button and From when the order actually gets executed that tiny Window sometimes the ask might change if you're trying to buy a breakout like if you're trying to buy a breakout at five The ask in that Sometimes it's so fast or if you hit it sometimes he asked moved to like 506 and like so then your orders going out for 509 That's a risk. I do take, you know, I risk fact fingering some stuff. It happens. It's very rare Normally I get pretty decent fills this way Anyway, that's that that's most of my hotkeys right there Oh, I also have a couple more that I can show you my F keys cycle through different time frames So for example, like, you know, I can hit all my day chart, you know, this goes to a minute a five minute a day I can cycle through different Time frames if I want to that's quick hotkey that I use But anyway, that's most of my hotkeys and now let's go over an example of how to make one So it all starts from this hot ski hotkey script builder So I go to the order script wizard I type in the name and this is gonna be example. Let's say we're going to buy 1000 on the ask So and I want the hotkey to be F10 Example so first I'm gonna hit buy on the side share. I'm gonna hit 1000 Symbol if you leave it blank, it'll work for any symbol that you click in on your montage And that's very important all these hotkeys will work for all montages, but it will only work One montage at a time the montage that you most recently clicked on so if it's active It'll work and all your hotkeys will work in that Montage the price I want to tie it to the ask So I want to be able to buy a stock with three with three cents wiggle room The account I'm pretty sure you have to put the account. I'm not gonna click down here for obvious reasons I don't want to show my account numbers, but the route you can choose from a number of routes I normally use limit or Arca is a safe one actually it's better Arca L Arca limit The TIF I always put day plus. I think this allows pre-market trading I'm not sure, but I think that's what it does show quantities if you want to hide any bit of your size I don't really care about that The mode if you hit load it'll when you hit the hotkey it'll load it into your montage But the order won't get sent. I'm pretty sure so I always do all of mine is load and send which means that Your order will actually get sent into the market and the minimum I I don't care what the minimum of the order I get if it goes so fast and I only get a few Hey, at least I got a few. I don't like to pick all or none. So I always pick any That means I don't care if any of my position fills. I want at least any of them to fill And then you hit build script and it's gonna show me here look like account It's not defined in the script because I didn't click it because I want to for the video But anyway, and then so here's your script and it should be valid You hit F10 you're gonna the montage that you're clicked and you're gonna buy a thousand shares with the limit The the the limit price is going to be asked plus point of three Whatever the ask is at the time that you hit the button plus point of three plus three cents So anyway, that's that's how I've made all of my hotkeys is through this hotscree script builder Hotkey script builder and if you have any other if you have any questions, please feel free to ask These are hotkeys that I find the most useful. I use them every single day and Yeah, cheers. Hello. Have a great day