Open and close position with different quantity of orders by hot keys

[laziest]

Hi. I'm using hot keys and set for open pos 3 contracts. When I get a position I want to close it, but every order separately. How can I set it? Thx

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi, thanks for writing in. You can set a hotkey buy or sell at market price. Set the 3 long or short position position, then set hotkeys to buy/sell at market price. Set the Chart Trader Quantity to 1 then activate the hotkeys to take out the orders one at a time.

Here is an example of my hot key setup:

https://clauber.tinytake.com/msc/NzI1MDQxOF8yMDA2MjkyOQ

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[laziest]

thx for your answer but I know abot hot keys and using em for a long time. also I tried to use strategy in settings but have the same problem. When I open a position 2, 3 or more contracts I can not close this pos by every single contract. For example: I choosed 3 contracts to open a pos. When I'm in a pos I want to close 1 contract. After few mins - another and the last one. I always use hotkeys without a mouse, so, everytime to change quantity for open and close is not normal. I want to close it only by hotkey and doesn't matter how big is my pos.
Shortly: open a pos with default quantity (2, 3 or 5 contracts) but close separately one by one and this have to by only by hotkeys!
Maybe you know how to do it in the window with strategy settings? That window where I can set take profit, stop loss...
thx

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi, thanks for the follow up. Please set up a hotkey like I did in my screen shot to buy/sell a market order. It works to reduce positions this way. The hotkeys work by reading the quantity setting you have in chart trader, so you will need to adjust your quantity in chart trader. You can press Tab while a chart is selected to iterate through all the controls to eventually get to the quantity selector.

Kind regards,
-ChrisL