Trade

The "Trade" tab contains information about the current status of the trading account, about open positions and pending orders placed. All open positions are in the sorting order, and they can be sorted by any field. To do so, click on the field name.

Open Positions

Positions are displayed as a table with the following fields:

• Symbol — financial security for which the position is open;
• Time — time of position opening. The time is represented as YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM (year.month.day hour:minute);
• Type — position type: "Buy" — long, "Sell" — short.
• Volume — volume of a trade operation (in lots or in amounts). Minimal volume and its step are limited by a brokerage company, maximal - by the deposit;
• Price — the price of a deal, as a result of which a position has been opened. If the opened position is a result of execution of several deals, then this field displays their weight-average price: (price of deal 1 * volume of deal 1 + ... + price of deal N * volume of deal N) / (volume of deal 1 + ... + volume of deal N). The accuracy of rounding of the average weighted price is equal to the number of decimal places in the symbol price plus three additional digits;
• S/L — Stop Loss level for the current position. If such an order hasn't been placed, the zero value is shown in this field;
• T/P — Take Profit level for the current position. If such an order hasn't been placed, the zero value is shown in this field;
• Price — current security price;
• Swap — swap sum;
• Profit — this field shows the financial result of a trade execution with the account for the current price. The positive result tells that the trade is profitable, negative shows that it's losing.

Account State

The current account state is shown below the open trade positions:

• Balance — amount of means on the account, results of currently open positions not included (deposit);
• Credit — amount of credit money given to a trader by broker;
• Commission — the amount of commission by orders and positions accumulated during a day or a month. Depending on conditions of collection of commission (determined by broker), a preliminary calculation of commission is performed during a day or a month. The corresponding amount of assets is blocked on the account and its value is shown in this field. At the end of the day/month, the final calculation of commission is performed and the corresponding amount of money is charged from the account as a balance operation (displayed as a separate deal on the "History" tab). Previously blocked assets are unblocked.
  If a commission is charged immediately during execution of a deal, its value is written in the "Commission" field of deals in the "History" tab.
• Blocked — at certain trading conditions (determined by broker) a profit earned by a trader during a day cannot be used for trading (it is not accounted in the free margin). This blocked profit is displayed in the "Blocked" field. At the end of a trading day this profit is unblocked and added to the account balance.
• Equity — equity is calculated as Balance + Credit - Commission +/- Floating Profit/Loss - Blocked;
• Margin — amount of means necessary to cover open positions and pending orders;
• Free margin —  volume of free funds that can be used for covering open positions. It is calculated as Equity - Margin. Depending on trading conditions (determined by broker) the equity may include or not include: floating profit, floating loss or both floating profit and floating loss;
• Margin level — percent ratio of equity on the account and required margin (Equity / Margin * 100);
• Trades result — total financial result on all open positions. If the result is positive, the sign is shown at the beginning of the account state line, is shown at the negative result.

Pending Orders

Below the line with account state placed pending orders are shown:

• Symbol — financial symbol for which the pending order is placed;
• Order — ticket number (unique number) of a pending order;
• ID — identifier of the order in an external trade system;
• Time — time of pending order placing. The time is represented as YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM (year.month.day hour:minute);
• Type — type of a pending order: "Sell Stop", "Sell Limit", "Buy Stop", "Buy Limit", "Buy Stop Limit" or "Sell Stop Limit".
• Volume — volume requested in a pending order and volume covered by the trade (in lots or in amounts);
• Price — price, reaching which the pending order will trigger;
• S/L — level of Stop Loss order placed. If such an order hasn't been placed, the zero value is shown in this field.
• T/P — level of Take Profit order placed. If such an order hasn't been placed, the zero value is shown in this field.
• Price — current symbol price;
• Comment — in this column comments to a pending order are written. A comment can be written only when placing an order. The comment can't be changed during order modification. Besides, a brokerage company can add a comment to a trade operation.
• State — the last column of a pending order shows its current status: "Started", "Placed", etc.

Context Menu

This tab allows not only viewing open positions and placed orders, but also managing trade activities. You can here open a new position, place a pending order, modify or delete it, and close a position. To do this, the following context menu commands can be used:

• New order — open the order managing window. This window allows opening new positions, placing pending orders, and closing open positions.
• Close position — open the order managing window. The symbol, on the position for which the command has been executed, will be automatically selected in this window.
• Modify or delete — open the window for modifying a selected position;
• Trailing Stop — open the menu for selecting the "Trailing Stop" level for the position;
• Volumes — selecting units, in which volumes will be shown (lots or amounts);
• Profit — selecting units, in which profit will be shown (money or points);
• Report — open the submenu of generating report in the Open XML (MS Office Excel 2007) or HTML (Internet Explorer) format. The report contains the information about current open positions and pending orders as well as the exposure details;
• Auto Arrange — enable/disable automatic resizing of columns;
• Grid — show/hide grid;
• Columns — open the submenu for enabling/disabling the columns of Swap, Profit and Comment.