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Date/Time: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:37:25 +0000
Fastest way to place an order on a chart at a certain price
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| [2025-10-04 14:24:07] |
| User925540 - Posts: 98 |
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What's the fastest way to place an order at a specific price? Let's say you're trading Crude Oil, the greasiest product in the market, you will slip and you will fall. Say you want to place a specific order type at a specific price on a chart, what's the fastest way to do that? 1) Maybe right click at the price > trade > select the order type from the list you have configured? Certainly not the fastest! 2) Maybe keyboard shortcut Buy/Sell Stop/Limit at current pointer price? Fast but doesn't cover all order types, let's say you want stop-limit order or any other order type what would you do? 3) Maybe Control button to Buy/Sell at current pointer price? Same issue as #2, you cannot use any other order type other than limit/stop. Any ideas are welcome. SC has a lot of capabilities that are already builtin/developed, it just needs to be extended to different use cases. |
| [2025-10-04 15:18:40] |
| rajeshh - Posts: 45 |
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you cannot use any other order type other than limit/stop.
in all honesty, what other order types would you need regularly other than stop-limit/limit/market? I think some keyboard combo using control button (shift, ctrl) is best bet. |
| [2025-10-04 17:32:36] |
| User925540 - Posts: 98 |
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what other order types would you need regularly other than stop-limit/limit/market?
Stop-limit, limit if touched, limit with chase ... I use many order types, a lot of traders do.I think some keyboard combo using control button (shift, ctrl) is best bet.
Ok, so that's one vote to solution#2, I agree, I just need access to other order types with that solution.
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| [2025-10-04 19:08:38] |
| User925540 - Posts: 98 |
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Trading Keyboard Shortcuts >> Trade Window Buy Based on Order Type/Prices Trading Keyboard Shortcuts >> Trade Window Sell Based on Order Type/Prices Those but replace "/Price" with "/Current Pointer Price" would do all the customizations anyone would need in that area. |
| [2025-10-04 19:09:01] |
| Mercrastius - Posts: 49 |
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The fastest one-click method to send an order at a specific price: Enable chart trade mode, with the chart trade DOM set to ON. You can customize the visible columns, but you only need the buy and sell columns. Hoover your cursor at whatever price you want in the buy or sell column, then single-click to instantly send a (buy or sell) order at that price. You can have two order type options by setting the right-click and left-click buttons to different order types. If you need more than two order types you'll need to use other methods such as the chart trade menu or some keyboard/control bar button combinations. I personally have my chart trade/chart DOM entries set for either stop (market) or stop (limit), depending on left or right click. See here for the chart DOM colums: Global Trade Settings Windows: Customize Chart/Trade DOM Columns (Chart Specific) See here to customize what happens when you right click/left click in the trade dom buy/sell columns: Global Trade Settings Windows: Chart DOM Settings I assume this depends on what version of sierrachart you're using, but you should be able to set the following order types: stop limit stop-limit market if touched limit if touched trailing stop A few move stop to price options Again, the only issue is that you only have two choices: left or right click. So chose wisely. |
| [2025-10-04 20:18:35] |
| User925540 - Posts: 98 |
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@Mercrastius I can work with that! thank you sir. Will try to find ways to decrease the width of those columns so they don't take much from the chart space. But it serves the need. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-10-04 23:37:27
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