Drawing hotkeys, magnet and favorites

Arm the common tools from the keyboard, snap anchors to the bars, and keep the tools you use on a strip.

Hotkeys

Hold Option (Alt on Windows) and press a letter to arm a tool on the chart under your pointer.

The hint is printed beside each tool in the rail’s menus.

They work on the chart your pointer is over, or the one you last clicked.
They’re fixed: they don’t appear in Settings → Hotkeys and can’t be rebound.
They’re ignored while you type in a text field, while a dialog or menu is open, and while the chart’s drawings are locked.

The magnet pulls a drawing’s points onto a bar’s open, high, low or close.

Mode	Behaviour
Weak magnet	Snaps only when you’re already within 12 pixels of an open, high, low or close. A deliberate placement between them is left alone.
Strong magnet	Always snaps to the nearest open, high, low or close.

Click the magnet button to switch it on (weak) or off. Choose strong from the arrow beside it.

Star the tools you reach for and keep them one click away.

Open a group from the rail and click the ☆ on a tool’s row.
Click the star button on the rail (Show favorite drawing tools toolbar) to show the strip. It sits at the bottom-left of the chart.

Click a tool on the strip to arm it. Empty, the strip reads Star a tool to keep it here.