Ninjatrader provides a limited hotkey facility for order management and these can be useful especially in fast moving markets. As an example, when you get a bad fill let’s say 2 ticks from your entry and your system requires 10 ticks from the bar close, the ATM will not place your orders correctly. I find having a breakeven hotkey in these situations helpful as mental calc’s combined with DOM or on-chart order management may occur too slowly.
To set up these hotkeys from NT menu go Tools --> Hot key Manager:
Then simply select “Order Entry” and then set your desired hotkeys in the right hand box. For example, to bring the order to breakeven when in profit, and in the situation described previously, holding down CTRL and pressing E will immediately bring the order to breakeven.