Shortcuts
All chart keyboard and mouse shortcuts in one place.
Shortcuts act on the chart that has keyboard focus. Click a chart first, especially in a multi-chart layout where they target the active cell.
Press ? at any time to open the in-app shortcuts panel. On this page, Mod means Ctrl on Windows and ⌘ on Mac.
Symbols and timeframes
The chart treats bare typing as a command. There is no need to click a search box first:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Type a letter | Open Symbol Search with your input |
| Type a digit | Open the timeframe field with that digit entered |
Timeframe entry accepts the same formats as the timeframe field in the topbar: 15 is 15 minutes (a bare number is minutes), 4h is 4 hours, D is a day, 3M is 3 months.
Navigation and scale
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
0 | Fit content to the viewport |
Alt+L | Toggle logarithmic scale |
Alt+P | Toggle percent scale |
Mod+Z / Mod+Y | Undo / redo |
Undo/redo covers chart actions such as drawings. If a drag went wrong, Mod+Z beats redrawing.
Drawing
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Hold Alt | Radial wheel of your favorite drawing tools |
Alt+T | Trend line |
Alt+H | Horizontal line |
Alt+V | Vertical line |
| Shift while drawing | Lock line angles to 45° increments |
| Shift+click empty chart | Start the measure ruler |
| Middle-click a drawing | Delete it |
The radial wheel is the one to learn first: hold Alt and your favorite drawing tools appear around the cursor, so you never leave the chart to switch tools. Curate your favorites and it covers everything the three fixed line shortcuts don't. See Drawings.
Alerts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Alt+A (Option+A on Mac) | Create a Price Alert on the focused chart |
You can also open Alerts from the panel rail or right-click the price axis.
Trading
These keys act on Paper Trading. They never fire while you are typing or while a dialog is open, and holding a key fires it once.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Shift+B | Set up a buy in the order panel |
Shift+S | Set up a sell in the order panel |
Shift+1 to Shift+9 | The hotkeys you assign in Trading settings › Hotkeys: a side and a size, or an order preset |
| Right-click the chart at a price | Set up a buy or sell limit or stop at that price |
Replay
While a replay is on, the trading keys trade the replay instead:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Shift+B / Shift+S | Buy / sell at market |
Shift+1 to Shift+9 | Trade the preset assigned to that key, at market |
Shift+C | Close the position |
Shift+R | Reverse the position |
Space | Play / pause |
Shift+→ | Step to the next update |
Quant chat
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Tab in an empty composer | Fill in the suggestion shown |
↑ in an empty composer | Edit your last message. Sending it replaces that message and everything after it; Esc cancels |
Pine editor
These shortcuts act in the Pine editor, rather than on the chart. Click inside the editor first.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Mod+S | Save the current script |
Mod+K, then I | Create a new script |
Saving a script is separate from workspace autosave. If saving fails, preserve your code with Copy the code and follow Saving troubleshooting.
Mouse and context menus
Right-clicking different regions of the chart opens different menus. The axis menus are the fastest route to scale and time zone settings:
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Right-click the chart | Settings, remove indicators, hide or show Buy and Sell, and more |
| Right-click the price axis | Scale mode (regular, percent, indexed to 100, log, invert), and Price Alerts |
| Right-click the time axis | Time zone |
| Double-click a layout splitter | Even the split between cells |