Shortcut keys – Pi
Shortcuts keys on Pi
| Functionality | Shortcut Keys |
| Change Password | Ctrl+Shift+F9 |
| Exit | Alt+F4 |
| Buy Order | F1 or Alt+F1 |
| Sell Order | F2 or Alt+F2 |
| Cover Order Buy | Shift+F1 |
| Cover Order Sell | Shift+F2 |
| After Market Order Buy | Ctrl+F1 |
| After Market Order Sell | Ctrl+F2 |
| Order Book | F3 |
| Trade Book | F8 |
| Admin Positions | F11 |
| Cash Position | Ctrl+Shift+V |
| Stock Holding | Alt+F9 |
| User Settings | Ctrl+P |
| View Market Index | Ctrl+M |
| View Quick Order | Ctrl+Q |
| Scrip Property | Shift+F7 |
| Snap Quote | F6 |
| Chart Settings | Shift+C |
| Add blank line in Market Watch | Space Bar |
| Delete (symbol from market watch, or selected indicators/drawings from Chart) | Delete |
| Reconcile | Ctrl+R |
| Chart Shortcuts: Zoom In/Out | Scroll Left/Right | Arrow Key: Up/Down | Arrow Key: Left/Right |
| Switch between Pi Document Tabs | Ctrl+Tab |
| Lock Pi | Ctl+Alt+L |
| Go 100 candles before the end of chart | HOME |
| Go to the end of chart from where you are | END |
| Modify Order in Order Book | Shift + M |
| Cancel order in Order Book | Shift + C |
| Cancel all orders in Order Book | Shift + A |
| Exit order in Order Book | Shift + E |
| Bracket Order Buy | Shift + F3 |
| Bracket Order Sell | Shift + F4 |
| Cancel order in Order Book | Shift + K |
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Shortcut to add script or any share in Marketwatch?
Hi,
Is there any shortcut key to view the chart of next Watchlist symbol? For example up and down arrow keys or space key in tradingview.
any hotkey to instantly enter specific lots of bnf options. like i press a key and enter in a 4/5/6… lots position?
impossible to manually do it that fast
Hi,
Are there any shortcut keys available to switch the candlestick time duration like switch between Daily to weekly or monthly view of candles. Or have plans to add this feature as this will be handy feature to use.
Can I use my customized shortcut keys. I am currently using NSE Now as well as Pi. But I am finding difficulty on trading in Pi. For example, for buying or selling, all you need to do is plus or minus key on right side of keyboard which i am used to but in Pi I have to use F1 or F2 in which i am having a great difficulty. So can I set my own shortcuts?
please guide,
how to fix bar charts as constant / default chart ,
i tried in chart setting, but problem continues
sir,
i would to have bar charts as default chart.But even after saving bar chart as default template chart setting, but i still not able to open next scrip as bar chart.
please guide
hi,
i already having some holdings in stocks and some positions in future , if i want to place AMO order for selling for both in PI and NEST trader , how to do same. plz. guide.
in kite i have to click exit in holdings and i will ask for limit price but in zerodha PI and NEST trader how to do.
plz. guide.
Hey Trimbak,
You can use the default shortcut for AMOs on Pi, which is Ctrl+F1. For more info refer to the Pi user manual.
Where is cross-hair option in charts (pi) ?
Nitin,
Pi was a good application when launched, it has remained there unfortunately.
Bracket Order – Kite has SL limit order feature missing here.
Scanner – See Chartink has simple to use better scanner features
Visit any forum – I have’nt heard any good word about your data- Chart data, I have also noticed this in comparison with NSE Charts and Sharekhan.
Don’t ask for samples if you are serious get your tech team to do some real study.
Good day
Scanner please add orb strategy script code.
Gap up, gap down script code
Hot key to change stoploss
I use to see multiple charts (4 Charts) on a single screen in zerodha pi. But when I want to open a chart on full screen, I am unable to see it. Dear developers, kindly provide a zoom out button to open an individual chart from multiple chart screen.
Thanks.
Hello,
I am using pi function “link to excel” for live feed on my excel files. In doing so, by default pi generate some columns. But for F&O, I want to add more columns to my excel which are already available in pi (“choose column”). The columns which I want to add to excel are “Series/Expiry”, “Expiry date”, “Lot qty”, “Predictive cls price”, “Net change”. But I don’t know pi script code for these columns.
Please guide me.
Hey Saurabh, there’s no option to customise fields with the link to Excel option right now. We’ll pass on your feedback to the Pi team.
I think you misunderstood my problem.
Let’s say for getting Trading symbol in excel, we use the formula
=RTD(“pi.rtdserver”, ,”NFO_ADANIPORTS18APRFUT”, “TradingSymbol”)
Where “TradingSymbol” is the label for this query. Similarly I want to know labels for the following queries, so that i can manually add these columns in my excel files. The columns are “Series/Expiry”, “Expiry date”, “Lot qty”, “Predictive cls price”, “Net change”.
I am a day trader. I want to use some macro software to use with zerodha pi so that I can fill the orders faster with just a single click of hot keys. I dont know programming. I tried autohotkey. but it is not working with pi. Please suggest me some solution. How can I use autohotkey to work on pi or suggest some other software that can record my macro and execute them with hotkeys without much programming.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING YOUR PRECIOUS TIME TO HELP BEGINEERS LIKE ME.
Need more shortcuts for charts i.e changing time frame, quickly add lines, switch between cross Hair to pan, add study…
Hi,
1) I hate candlesticks and I am forced to change the charts from candlesticks to bars every time I login.
Can you please an option available to change the default settings of charts from candlesticks to bars ?
2) Is it possible to add the indicator Volume at Price indicator ?
Thanks
1. You can go to the Chart menu and save your preferred chart type as a template. Once done, you can apply this template to any chart you’re looking at.
2. No, this indicator isn’t available right now. May see it in future releases.
Cancel order short cut is not working in PI version 1.0.0.6. Please check
Best write to support[at]zerodha.com Sharad.
how to remove blank space in market watch ?
Hey Hassan, not sure what you’re talking about as we don’t allow any blank rows in the marketwatch.
Sir
Please add hotkeys feature to zerodha pi platform.
In case you don’t know about hotkeys, what it does is that it provides keyboard shortcuts to place entry and exits at predefined size (which is already added in the settings)
Keyboard shortcuts like
1. Ctrl + 1 for purchase order at ask rate.
2. Ctrl + 2 for sell orders at bid rate.
3. Another shortcut for buying/selling above/below the market price i.e. placing orders in advance of the market before the stock hits our desired price.
What this does is allow us trade at faster speed to get in & out of the trades at our desired levels.
How to logout from Zerodha-Pi ? please reply…
Goto File menu on top left hand side and select Exit option to logout from Pi alternatively can use (Alt+F4) as shortcut to logout.
How can I highlight and provide a color to the cursor (+ sign) while reading the chart.
I mean here when I will click on crosshair and will go to the chart there will be a + sign, I want to add a color to this plus sign.
Please let me know.
Thanks
Adding a color to the + sign won’t be possible.
I am using Pi, and I have 4 queries:
1) I have a market watch of around 20 scripts. If I have opened the chart for a script, how do I go to the chart of next script and so on without having to go back to the market watch and manually open another chart?
2) Also, I have 4 templates, how do I go to the next template at the push of a button (say for example the right arrow key or something similar), without having to right click and select “Apply Template”.
3) I am using the split screen option, with my Market Watch on the left and a chart on the right. Is is possible to select a script from my market watch and see that chart on the right side, instead of the chart opening on top of my Market Watch?
4) Is it possible to change the colour of indicators (other than the main colour)?
1.That is not possible but one can select chart button(search scrip) on tool bar and open any other chart.
2. Not possible because already all the keys are used for other functions.
3. Will check on this.
4. In our list of things to do.
Is it possible to make custom shortcuts?
I want to have these shortcuts:
1. Buy a lot at limit ask +50ps.
2. Sell a lot at limit bid -50ps.
3. Sell half/full positions at limit bid -50ps.
4. Buy to cover half/full positions at limit ask +50ps.
hmm. not possible.
Please make it possible because this is the current requirement of every trader and this can only be possible if you assign hot keys for trading direct from keyboard instead of mouse trading which is outdated and a lenghty procedure.
plz add advances/decline iindex
There is no shortcut to add Stock Fut by clicking on the Stock – Eq name in Marketwatch. ALso, no Short cut to add option chain . In Ventura Pointer, U can add the near month future by selecting the stock and pressing CTRL+1, For Calls, its CTRL+3 and PUTS is CTRL+4… it wil be nice to have something like this in PI.
Sir i just install pi n found not that much impressive as other charts available on web … Feel sad what i can do in pie extra feature than other .. N pls tell me shortcut key for vertical line n horizontal line draw.
Check the below link on Pi, no short cut keys for horizontal and vertical lines, just right click on chart and select them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg5iZzvBV1A
write to [email protected] for any more assistance.
Sir, how to use “TWS utility” in zerodha pi, to know the dividend date, bonus etc…..
Ah currently not possible.
Hi Nithin,
This one is not regarding the hot keys.
Please confirm if there is a feature for opening multiple charts of different time frames when a single script is searched. For example, having opened 3 charts for GAIL i.e 1 min,5 min and 1 day chart side by side, I want to switch to LUPIN charts for all the three time frames(with all the same indicators and overlays). So,is there an option to do so without having to search 3 times on 3 different charts. If not, is there a chance you could bring that up in next update.
Thanks.
This is in our list of things to provide though may take sometime.
Hai,
While i am using kite mobile application there is a horizontal and vertical line moving with our touch. This is very helpful. I like to get the same in pi. How can i turn on the mouse indicators (horizontal and vertical lines) which moves with the mouse arrow ?
Hey Nikhil . I am an active intraday trader who mostly finishes his trades before 11 am. I would like to know if there are Hotkeys/Shortcut keys for squaring of a particular size of my position on market price. For eg. if i brought 1000 shares of a stock and i am in profit and i want to scale out to insure my profits . then is there any hotkey that can sell 500 of my shares at market price without opening any ‘Order forms’. And also is there any hotkey that can set my stop at breaken by calculating the breakeven point. And if this hotkeys don’t exist atm , In what amount of time can you guys bring them? Thanks.
Hmm.. they don’t, let me bounce this off our team.
Thanks for the reply! Hope to see this changes soon 🙂
hey there!
hey harshvardhan srivastava …how can you finish your trades before 11 am??
can you help us telling how you enter trades?
I look for gappers . And after that i enter them on good breakout patterns like flags or ORBs’. They can easily move 1-3% in a matter of minutes. And using leverage of 10x . We are talking about 10-30% gains on a trade in a matter of minutes. Basically you can get more info about it . By searching about momentum trading articles.
sounds interesting but I am not able to understand how to do it…thanks for info 🙂
Which scanner do you use to find gappers ? I can’t find one with gappers filter. Also at what time in the morning do you look for gappers ?
Please help to select scrips:
For example:
tatasteel
infy
sbi
aban
irb
dlf
nifty
sensex
suppose i have currently selected aban, now I want go to dlf, I press dlf it doesnt move to dlf.
Please help me how to go to script by pressing keyboard.
To move to different scrips, you have to use the up and down arrow.
Hi, is there any option to exit all open positions at a time in Pi terminal?
Go to Admin positions – F11, select all positions and click square off.
Please refer above table:
Shift + C and Shift +K are doing the same thing ??
Please confirm. thanks
how to cancel
ctrl + f2 trade
After Market Order Sell Ctrl+F2
zerodha please provide shortcut key for MIS buying and for MIS selling please …. it’s humble request please provide us as soon as possible..
Press Ctrl+P to open Preference settings on Pi. Under the “Order window” tab, you can set the default order type to MIS. This way whenever you hit F1 to buy/F2 to sell, the product code selected will be MIS.
Pi is the only best software for intraday trading. i have DB account with many broker like geojit, Religare, goodwill commodity, alice blue, ventura, sharekhan. but i like zerodha only. I am expecting next PI Update. any date?
Next week sometime.
Ok Thank you and i am honoring u’r Respect reply.
Hi, It will be very helpful if you can provide short cut to open chart templates? I usually switch between chart time frame. So this feature will be very helpful for traders like me.
What is Auto square of key?
No shortcut key for that.
There is no short cut key for modifying all of outstanding bracket order position in order book at once. suppose an order for Buy 100 scrips gets executed by one each. That means there are 100 sell entries outstanding in that bracket order to finally wipe out positions. But if we want to modify sell targets of that positions, we have to modify open targets 100 times, which is very tedious and time consuming. In all major platforms, it is possible to modify positions by one stroke. In spite of many a good features, this is a major handicap of Pi platform. It should be easy to remedy it. please work out a solution. May be it could be modified at one stroke from Admin position window easily. Pl attend to it.( I am attaching a file where a sell bracket order is executed by so many trades. It is a herculian task to modify all even once)
Yes, right now there is a limitation with this. We are working on it.
Dear Sir,
is it possible you to add one more information below the “MTM” ie. current trade profit(Rupees) in snapquote? it will helpful for multiple trade.
Regards,
Rakesh
Bouncing with this our tech team.
what is use of Lock Pi ?
Its a security feature. When you lock Pi, you will not be able to use the application.
earlier I used to get snap quote in Pi chart, but since last update it is not appearing after pressing F6 Keay as well as cliking in user setting.
Every chart needs to be opened from market watch. This doesn’t allow us to change the scrip in the open chart itself. Its just not practical to open charts for every scrip by going to market watch first.
Also, this can be one big drawback in charting as you cannot have your own chart template for every chart you open. Please incorporate this feature asap please.
BTW very good software. Congrats Team for the great efforts…!!!
Hi Nithin,
1. Is it possible to provide option to disable blinking/color changing from red to green of LTP column in PI.
2. Ray line option in drawing tool.?
Not in the immediate scheme of things. Will let our developers know of these feature requests.
sir, what do you mean key IN KITE platform
Kite is our new trading platform. Check out http://kite.trade/
hi
please include some more features in charting tools in pi software .
1. trendline copy paste type. if the trendline can be copy pasted we can draw a perfect trendline .
2. order on the charts is fantastic . but if its just like ninja trader , it would be awesome . in ninjatrader
we can move the limit orders from time to time .
3. it would be nice if we see the position we have taken on the chart itself
Hi Nithin-
Reg: PI Platform
A few requests from a scalper.
1. Drag the Take Profit and Stop Loss on Chart
2. Fibonacci Extensions
3. Digital Indicators – at least FTLM and RSTL
4. MT4 Plugin
Thanks much
– Sukhen
1/2. on our list.
3. We will start adding new indicators once we are stable with everything else.
4. MT4 unfortunately doesn’t let you fire order outside the MT universe. We have tried this but unsuccessfully.
Also please provide more drawing tools with coloring options
Yep, on our list. Will take time though.
Please allow pi window resizing, once I logout window is back to default size at next login
Yeah, this will take a bit more longer to do.
Nithin, one more humble request !
I know that you are trying your best to provide the best facilities to your clients and your efforts do reflect fantastic results. Thanks a tonn for that. The charting development in Pi is going superb. Still, if you permit, I would like to make one suggestion. I have a little experience of Trading software ‘Falcon- F7’ (developed by reliable.co.in). The system is marvellous. The varieties of scanners, hi-tech Technical Tools and smooth and attractive presentation – all will certainly fascinate you too. I know you are providing all the systems free of cost and whatever you are giving must be treated as bounty but, seeing your affection and care for the traders like me, I am telling you that please get a chance to have a glimpse of the Falcon software so that our Pi Trading software OUGHT TO BE the Best in the Country.
Thank you for your constant and consistent support and care.
Thank you
Nithin,
As Hanan had said that we can change short cut keys as per our convenience with help of hot keys (in ZT), can it be possible in Pi? If yes, please tell me the procedure.
Thanks
Currently not possible, but yeah on our list of things.
Can i change shortcut keys in pi ?
Hi Nithin/Team,
Is the option to change Shortcut keys in PI available for users now? Any updates will be appreciated.’
Regards,
Saurav
Quick order option is not available without chart. kindly enable it in market watch also
is there any facility to trade and maintain one screen for three trading accounts of my family members .
i mean can three family trading accounts be operated from same pi trading software.
No Sandeep.
Dear Nithin,
Please add hot keys for day separator, horizontal line etc.. (right click option in chart page).
Regards,
Hi Nithin,
Can u please open a thread called “Suggestions from User” where we can post features that we would love to see in next version of ‘pi’.
You can post it here Krishan: http://zerodha.com/z-connect/tradezerodha/pi-tradezerodha/latest-updates-pi-23rd-july-2015
how to add blank line in Pi between the market watch script
Left click where you want the blank line, and hit the space key on your keyboard.
Hey Nithin,
Is there any option in pi to auto enable cross hair for every new script i add. By default it is not enabled, hence i have to manually enable it every time.
Not for now.
No Nithin, couldn’t expand the window horizontally by dragging, its stuck there.
BTW, my screen resoln is 1024X768. Any workaround is appreciated.
“Go to Zerodha/Pi folder and select Pi.exe, right click on it and select Properties and then select Compatibility tab and check
“”Run in 640×480 screen resolution is checked or not.If checked, unchecked the option. “
Hi Nithin, “Run in 640×480 screen resolution ” is already Unchecked
For optimum GUI experience, screen resolution should be greater than 1024×768. Can you send an email to [email protected] with your contact, he can help you out.
In PI > Admin Positions(F11), two buttons for “SQUARE OFF” are visible, and there is no button for ‘Position Conversion’. Kindly rectify it
There is position conversion already, make sure to maximize the screen, the position conversion button is right next to square off all.
hi der ,
how to modify pending order in pi is der any shortcut
F3 to open order book, and then select and modify. No direct shortcut.
YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO CHANGE / MODIFY THE ORDER . IGH FREQUENCY TRADER WOULD NEED IT. NEAT SYSTEM, RKSV, IIFL, NOW SYSTEM ALL HAVE SHIFT F1 TO CANCEL AND SHIFT+F2 TO MODIFY THE ORDERS.
shift M to modify and shift C to cancel on Pi. Check the shortcut keys here: http://zerodha.com/z-connect/tradezerodha/pi-tradezerodha/shortcut-keys-pi
Amazing software Pi make me proud to be associated with ZERODHA. Hats off to you.
However I don’t know how to see long term historical charts. I get charts only up-to February 2015 in the history. I love to see charts at least up-to 5 years in history. Is there a way to setup that.
Hope you have historical charts that can be setup until 5 years past.
Another query from my side is “Why is’nt there any option of 3 months, 1 year, 5 years options in charting options. These are must for serious traders.
Thanks again for the great work.
Amarjeet, the number of candles you pull will determine the duration of the chart. Choose daily candle and choose history as 10000, you will get daily chart for the last 5000 days. Check this webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg5iZzvBV1A and also the other videos.
We also need a shortcut to add trendlines quickly in Pi Charts.
That will be very helpful, instead of having to click each time for each new trendline.
Also, if we can enter :
1. Stop loss line
2. Entry line
3. Exit line
in chart (with keyboard shortcuts), which will show us risk-reward ratio, like in Trade-tiger, it will be very helpful.
Thanks,
Is there any shortcut key to cancel the order? It says F3, but it won’t work in pi.
F3 is for opening the order book. Once opened, select the pending order and hit the delete button on the keyboard.
“add symbol” is an essential factor in any watch list and it is absent
Shortcut key to add symbol is it?
Hi Nithin
What is the shortcut key to add a new Symbol on existing chart? When I am on a chart and I want to quickly bring up another chart how to do that? Currently I have to to use mouse to click on search scipt and then type. But what is the keyboard shortcut to open search script?
You may use Ctrl + F to find scrip then simply click on add button.
It’s a quite easy.
in pi application on tool bar
file>lock zerodha(shortcut = ctrl+atl+l) function use it?
so knowlage about it
Shortcut key to add symbol is it?
Use ” ` ” key , it’s a shortcut to add a symbol.
Hi,
What is the shortcut key to buy and sell fixed quantity at market price?
Can we add a fixed preference like sell at 5% less the buy order and sell at 5% high the buy order?
Eg. Buy 300 banknifty 44300 pe 4th October expiry at mkt pricewith sl at 5 %
Sell at market on shortcut key command
Hi,
What is the shortcut key to buy and sell fixed quantity at market price?
Can we add a fixed preference like sell at 5% less the buy order and sell at 5% high the buy order?
Eg. Buy 300 banknifty 44300 pe 4th October expiry at mkt pricewith sl at 5 %
Sell at market on shortcut key command?