hot key trading in FX Trading Platform?

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Curious how i can go about making custom hot keys for FX Trading. The sales rep told me to ask on MQL4 community and find out.

So anyone know how to hot key trades for FX Trading?

[Ray]

Write a script to perform the task, and assign a hotkey to run the script.

right click the script in Navigator to assign a hotkey.

[Marco vd Heijden]

Here is an example.

#define KEY_NUMPAD_5       12
#define KEY_LEFT           37
#define KEY_UP             38
#define KEY_RIGHT          39
#define KEY_DOWN           40
#define KEY_NUMLOCK_DOWN   98
#define KEY_NUMLOCK_LEFT  100
#define KEY_NUMLOCK_5     101
#define KEY_NUMLOCK_RIGHT 102
#define KEY_NUMLOCK_UP    104

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert initialization function                                   |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int OnInit()
  {
//---

//---
   return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| ChartEvent function                                              |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnChartEvent(const int id,         // Event identifier  
                  const long& lparam,   // Event parameter of long type
                  const double& dparam, // Event parameter of double type
                  const string& sparam) // Event parameter of string type
  {
//--- the left mouse button has been pressed on the chart
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_CLICK)
     {
      //Print("The coordinates of the mouse click on the chart are: x = ",lparam,"  y = ",dparam);
     }
//--- the mouse has been clicked on the graphic object
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_CLICK)
     {
      //Print("The mouse has been clicked on the object with name '"+sparam+"'");
     }
//--- the key has been pressed
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_KEYDOWN)
     {
      switch(int(lparam))
        {
         case KEY_NUMLOCK_LEFT:  Print("The KEY_NUMLOCK_LEFT has been pressed");   break;
         case KEY_LEFT:          Print("The KEY_LEFT has been pressed");           break;
         case KEY_NUMLOCK_UP:    Print("The KEY_NUMLOCK_UP has been pressed");     break;
         case KEY_UP:            Print("The KEY_UP has been pressed");             break;
         case KEY_NUMLOCK_RIGHT: Print("The KEY_NUMLOCK_RIGHT has been pressed");  break;
         case KEY_RIGHT:         Print("The KEY_RIGHT has been pressed");          break;
         case KEY_NUMLOCK_DOWN:  Print("The KEY_NUMLOCK_DOWN has been pressed");   break;
         case KEY_DOWN:          Print("The KEY_DOWN has been pressed");           break;
         case KEY_NUMPAD_5:      Print("The KEY_NUMPAD_5 has been pressed");       break;
         case KEY_NUMLOCK_5:     Print("The KEY_NUMLOCK_5 has been pressed");      break;
         default:                Print("Some not listed key has been pressed");
        }
     }
//--- the object has been deleted
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_DELETE)
     {
      //Print("The object with name ",sparam," has been deleted");
     }
//--- the object has been created
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_CREATE)
     {
      //Print("The object with name ",sparam," has been created");
     }
//--- the object has been moved or its anchor point coordinates has been changed
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_DRAG)
     {
      //Print("The anchor point coordinates of the object with name ",sparam," has been changed");
     }
//--- the text in the Edit of object has been changed
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_ENDEDIT)
     {
      //Print("The text in the Edit field of the object with name ",sparam," has been changed");
     }
  }

I commented out the irrelevant id's.