Market Watch Window
The securities (symbols) for which the Client Terminal gets quotes from the server are listed in the "Market Watch" window.
The data are represented in this windwow as a table having several fields. The "Symbol" field contains the security name,
the fields of "Bid", "Ask", and "Time" show the corresponding prices and time of their income from the server.
Values of the "Maximum" and "Minimum" fields are calculated on basis of price changes within a day. The "Market Watch"
window can be opened/closed by pressing of accelerating keys of Ctrl+M, by the "View Market Watch" menu command,
or by pressing of the
button of the "Standard" toolbar.
This window allows to place market and pending orders and open new charts.
At the right mouse button click in the "Market Watch" window, the context menu will appear where
the following commands are available:
New Order open the "New Order" window where one can prepare and place a market or a pending order
for the symbol selected. At the order preparation, one can specify the Stop Loss and Take Profit levels.
More details can be found in the "Positions Opening" section.
The "New Order" window can also be opened by double clicking on the security name in the "Market Watch" window,
by the "Tools New Order" menu command, by the
"Terminal Trade New Order" window context menu command,
the
button of the
"Standard" toolbar, or by pressing of F9;
Chart Window open the chart of the symbol selected. More details about working with chart windows are given
in the section of the same name.
The symbol chart can also be opened by the "File New Chart" and
"Window New Window" menu commands and
by pressing of the
button of the
"Standard" toolbar;
Tick Chart open the tick chart of the symbol selected. Unlike normal charts, the tick chart is located directly
in the "Market Watch" window. The tick chart of the selected symbol can also be viewed by switching to the tab of the same name in the same window;
Hide delete (hide) the symbol from the list. To minimize the traffic, it is recommended to hide unused
securities from the quotes window by this command or by pressing of the Delete button.
Hide All delete all symbols from the list. This command does not apply to securities for which there are open positions
or the charts of which were opened in the current working session;
Show All show the list of all available securities. After this command has been executed, quotes will income for all
these symbols;
Symbols call the window of the same name where there is a list of all available symbols.
Symbols are grouped in the window according to their types. The "Show Symbol" command allows to add necessary symbols
to the quotes window, and that of "Hide Symbol" to delete a symbol from it. The "Properties" window command
allows to view the symbol parameters;
Sets open the sub-menu that manages the symbol sets. The current set of symbols can be stored in this sub-menu, as well as
delete or select an already existing one. This is very comfortable when working with securities of different types;
High/Low add the highest and the lowest values of the daily price to the quotes displayed;
Time show time of incoming quotes;
Auto Arrange automatic arranging of columns when changing the window size.
Auto Arrange can also be enabled by pressing A button;
Grid show/hide the grid separating columns.
The grid can also be shown by pressing G button;
Popup Prices open an additional quotes window. The list of symbols in this window is the same as that in the
"Market Watch" window at the moment of the command execution. This means that changes in the symbol list in the "Market Watch" window
does not influence that in the "Popup Prices".
It is an information window, but trading operations can also be performed from it. To do so, one has to double-click with the left mouse button on the
desired security. In the context menu of this window, there are commands allowing to set up data displaying parameters, enable the full screen mode, or
locate the window over all others.