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Guide to Trading

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How to access

 

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. Click on the Main menu → Click on Tools → Trading → Choose your Trading Service.

Trading Window-  Providing overview of you Portfolio(s), Orders & Trades

 

Place an order

 

You can add an order in multiple ways

1. First way is to mark the symbol from a Wathlist or market window, or overview window. Then use either minus or plus on your keyboard. The minus is for sell order and the plus is for buy order.

2. The second way is to right-click on the symbol, then click on “Trading” and then click on either “buy” or “sell”.

Fill in volume and then click on buy/sell.

 

3. Another way to place trade is through the Infront Click Trader. You can read more about Click trading here.

 

 

Supported order types

 

The program supports different Order Types depending on the exchange, asset class and trading service.

Standard types: At market, Fill or Kill, Fill and Kill, All or nothing, Limit, Market to Limit, At Market and Kill,

Depending on exchange: Contingent, Flex, Interest, Best Possible, Funari

Conditional orders

Direct Market Access or Care Orders

Request for Quote

 

Position keeping

 

You can have access to one or several portfolios. You can define your default Portfolio or select a Portfolio each time when placing an order.

Each Portfolio will give you overview of all assets, limits and trading power.

 

Access to several Portfolios

 

Depending on your trading account, you may have access to several portfolios. You can select between your different portfolios when placing orders.

It is also possible to retrieve account information for each individual portfolio.

 

Limits

 

Limits such as cash, trading power, shorting limits, credit limits etc is defined by the account you are trading on. In addition you can define your own limits in trading settings.

 

Basket Trading Window

 

The Basket Trading window enables you t set default conditions or specify condition for each order. You can read more about Basket Trading here.

 

Slicing of Orders (Parent & Childs)

 

The program supports Parent and Child orders where you can either split an order on to different accounts or to different brokers.

 

Trading Algorithms

 

The program has been developed to support trading on different algorithms provided by brokers. Read more about Algo trading here.

 

Smart Orders

 

Some trading providers also support automatic trading a company on multiple exchanges, so called Smart orders.