Charts: Keyboard

The following Keyboard keys can be used in Ensign Windows.

Window Keys
Alt - Activate the Menu
F1 - Activate On-line Help
Ctrl-F4 - Close the active window
Ctrl-Tab - Change the active window
Alt-Tab - Jump between programs running on the computer
Alt-F4 - Exits the program if all the windows are closed.
Chart Study Keys 
b - Toggle bars on or off  
f - Point & Figure 
H - High/Low Stop 
I - Commodity Channel Index 
K - Keltner Channel 
M - Moving Average 
m - Momentum 
N - Remove all Studies 
O - MACD Oscillator 
P - Parabolic Stop 
R - Relative Strength 
S - Stochastics 
s - Pesavento Patterns 
U - Uniform Channel
V - Volatility Stop Chart Types
X - Directional Movement Index
y - Bollinger Bands 

Chart Time Frames 
T - Tick chart
D - Daily chart
W - Weekly chart 
w - Monthly chart 
1-9 - Custom Time Frames
/ - Custom Time Frame
* - Custom Time Frame 

Chart Control Keys 
Shift < - Shift Chart View Left 
Shift > - Shift Chart View Right
Page Up or Up Arrow - Slide chart view up
Page Down or Down Arrow - Slide chart view down
] - Compress Bar Spacing
[ - Expand Bar Spacing
Period key (.) - Slide forward one bar at a time
Comma (,) - Slide chart back one bar at a time
{ or Left Arrow - Increase Bar Height scaling
} or Right Arrow - Decrease Bar Height scaling
= - Restore chart to default scale and position
Shift (=) - Jump to first bar in chart

Chart Color Bar Keys 
c - Close vs. Open
G - Gap
g - Gap Open
h - Weekly High/Low
i - Island Reversal
k - Key Reversal Pair
n - Normal bar color
p - Turning Points
r - Large/Small Ranges
t - Trends
u - User-defined color bars
v - Large/Small Volumes
x - Trailing Stop
z - Outside/Inside Bars
^ (Shift-6) - Close Outer 10%
% (Shift-5) - Close Outer 25%
- (Minus) - Net Change


Chart Types
B - Bar Chart
J - Japanese Candlesticks
L - Line Chart
# - Continuation Chart (Futures) 

 


Workspaces
F2-F11 - Displays the 1st-10th Workspaces


Snap Quote

F12 function key


Chart Browse Keys

Press the Home key to browse back one chart, press the End key to browse forward one chart (while a quote page is open).


Chart Hot Keys
The following keyboard commands can be used while viewing a chart.  The commands can be used to change the chart symbol in the active window, display a Time & Sales for the current chart, display Snap Quotes, display and change the chart properties, set alerts, edit chart data, and control chart templates.

Each hot key is a Control Key sequence.  Hold down the Ctrl key and then press the companion key once.  Example, to set an alert on a chart, move the mouse cursor to the desired alert price level and then press Ctrl-A (hold down the Ctrl key and then press the letter A once).

Ctrl-A Set a price Alert at the cursor position
Ctrl-B Toggle the Bar Data panel on/off the chart
Ctrl-C Toggle the Big Cross cursor on/off the chart
Ctrl-D Delete the chart bar at the cursor location.
Ctrl-E E-mail the current window or chart image
Ctrl-F Toggle a Chart to Zoom Fullscreen and back to Normal size.
Ctrl-H Edit the High price to the cursor location on the bar that is being pointed to.
Ctrl-I Inserts a bar on a chart at the mouse cursor location.
Ctrl-J Saves a .PNG Graphics image of the current Chart or Properties window.
Ctrl-K Toggle the Chart colors to Printer Friendly Colors, then back to Original Colors.
Ctrl-L Edit the Low price to the cursor location on the bar that is being pointed to.
Ctrl-O Display the Chart Objects list for the current chart.
Ctrl-P Display the Chart Properties window.
Ctrl-Q Display Snap Quote window for the current chart symbol.
Ctrl-R Remove both High and Low alert from a chart.
Ctrl-S Prompts for a symbol, and then changes the current chart window.
Ctrl-T Display Time & Sales window for the current chart symbol.
Ctrl-V Toggle the Volume bars on/off the chart
Ctrl-X Toggle the chart Bars on/off the chart
Ctrl-Y Toggle the Study Data panel on/off the chart
Ctrl-Z Adjust the chart prices for Stock Splits or scale adjustments
Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-9 and Ctrl-0 can be used to apply one of the first 10 Templates on a chart.
Quote Page Hot Keys
The following keyboard commands can be used while viewing a Quote Page.  Each hot key is a Control Key sequence. Hold down the Ctrl key and then press the companion key once.  Example, to add a new symbol to a Quote page press Ctrl-S (hold down the Ctrl key and then press the letter S once).

Ctrl-B Hide the Button Bar
Ctrl-F Toggle page Format
Ctrl-H Hide the Tabs
Ctrl-J Save a graphical picture of the Quote page to a .PNG graphics file.
Ctrl-K Activate Ticker Tape
Ctrl-N Display any News Stories for the selected symbol
Ctrl-Q Display Snap Quote window for the selected symbol
Ctrl-R Delete Row
Ctrl-S Add Symbol to Quote Page
Ctrl-T Display Time & Sales window for the selected symbol

Ctrl-D Display Daily chart for the selected symbol
Ctrl-W Display Weekly chart for the selected symbol
Ctrl-M Display Monthly chart for the selected symbol

= The Equal key will open the selected Quote page symbol using the default double-click Time Frame.
Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-0, and Ctrl- - and Ctrl- = Top row of keyboard.  Displays a chart for the selected symbol, using one of the first 12 time frames from the Time Frames button panel.

Home - Advance the Tab focus forward (view the next Custom Quote page)
End - Advance the Tab focus backward (view the previous Custom Quote page)


Last modified 11/29/07 12:02 PM