Trading Window

Description

The Trading Window is the main window for trading where you will have the full overview of all your orders, trades and the portfolios you have access to.

You can define the behavior of this window in the section Trading Settings.

How to access

•Select File | New | Trading in the main menu bar. When the login window appears you must type the login and password provided by your broker. Note: This is not the same login as the program log in.

When you are successfully logged on the Trading Window appears.

This window have five folders; Order, Trade, Accumulated Trades, Portfolio and Log tab.

Orders

The orders tab shows the status of all your orders. An order can be either active or inactive; an inactive order is not sent to the marketplace, while an active order is sent to the marketplace. As soon as the order is activated it’s sent to the exchange. When the order is close to the market price, the background color changes to yellow. A buy order is marked in blue, and a sell order is marked in red.

The right click menu in the Order folder provides possibility to activate, modify, view or delete an order, or insert a new order.

Edit Columns

In order to edit the column layout, right click on the column headings and select Field Chooser.

Group Columns

Each column can be grouped by right clicking on the column header and selecting "Group by This field".

Keep Deleted Orders

If you have selected to keep deleted orders (in the Trading page of the Trading settings dialog), the Status column will now show the true cause why the order is deleted. The old Deleted status has been split into Executed, Refused and Deleted statuses. The Executed status means that the entire Volume of the order has been filled and executed as trades. The Refused status means that the order was stopped in the trading server and an error message returned (for instance, no coverage). The Deleted status now means that the order was manually deleted by a user.

Filled/Volume column

There is now a new Volume/Filled column that combines Volume and Filled Volume values in a graphical column. The remaining and filled volumes represented by differently colored background rectangles. By default the colors are green and yellow, but this can be configured using Properties | Edit colors.

Trades

The folder displays all trades for the selected portfolio for <My Order only>.

Accumulated Trades

The folder displays trades accumulated per instrument

Portfolio

This folder shows your positions, including trading power, cash, instruments and the market price of your positions. There is a filter to show/not show instruments, cash and limits. In the top panel you will find a summary of your total investments. For some trading providers, the top panel will also include information about cash, limits and portfolio status.

Some trading  providers support a Simulate Sell command for a given portfolio item. This will not insert an actual sell order, but will return a table of information on what effect an actual sale would have for your portfolio, cash and limit status.

Log

All communication between the program and the trading servers will be logged and available under the Log folder.  To copy the log file right click and select Select All and Copy.

<My Orders Only>

If you have access to multiple Portfolios, "My orders only" displays only orders and trades made by your trading login.

Saving and loading grid layouts

All the pages in the Trading window now support saving and loading grid layouts, including columns, sorting, grouping and filtering. To save a new grid layout, right-click on the columns and select Save Layout. To load an existing layout, right-click the columns and select Load Layout. The Orders and Trades pages also have a Layout drop down that can be used to quickly load an existing layout.

Connection Status

If the connection to your broker is lost, the status in the upper left corner will notify you. Read more.