Trading

Modified on Wed, 29 Jan at 2:13 PM

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Trading Panel

Trading Panel

To open the trading panel just click on the Trading button in the upper right corner.

Cross Trading Mini / Micro

At the top of the trading panel you can choose which instrument to trade with, this VolSys option is particularly useful as it allows you to look at the Mini futures and trade with the Micro, not requiring the opening of additional charts.

Remember that in order to perform a proper volumetric analysis, one must always observe the data of the future principal.

Next comes the information on the Open Qty (Open Qty), i.e., the contracts/shares with which you are possibly in the market, the Open P/L and the Daily P/L made on the instrument in question.

Trading Buttons

MKT:

Enters buy or sell orders at market;

BID / ASK:

Enters limit orders at Best Bid and Best Ask respectively;

LMT:

Insert limit orders, specifically, the user will have the ability to manually insert buy limit orders at a price below the market price or sell limit orders at a price above the market price;

STP:

Insert stop orders, which are conditional type orders that upon their activation will go to insert market orders, specifically the user will have the ability to manually insert buy stop orders at a price above the market price or sell stop orders at a price below the market price;

STP LMT:

Insert stop limit type orders, that is, stop orders that upon their activation instead of sending orders to market will go to insert limit orders. This type of order is used to avoid entering at unfavorable prices by suffering the slippage, with the risk, however, of not being executed.

Cancel:

Cancel all pending orders;

Flat:

Closes the market position and clears all pending orders.

With the left mouse you can change the position of the orders limit and stop entered, while with the right button you can revoke them.

In the Qty and Account the user will respectively go to choose the quantity they want to trade and the Account they want to trade with.

OCO Strategy

Enable OCO strategies (Order-Cancel-Order), which is the ability to hook two exit orders to the main order, one limit for a possible profit exit and one stop for a possible loss exit. Upon execution of either limit order, the other will be automatically revoked.

Chart Trading

To enable Chart Trading, simply click on the appropriate button located at the bottom of the Trading Panel

Buy order left below last

Defines the type of order you will enter by left-clicking in the buy column below the market price, by default you will enter a buy limit;

Buy order left above last

Defines the type of order you will enter by left-clicking in the buy column above the market price, by default you will enter a buy stop;

Buy order right below last

Defines the type of order you will enter by right-clicking in the buy column above the market price, by default you will enter a buy market;

Buy order right above last

Defines the type of order you will enter by right-clicking in the buy column below the market price, by default you will enter a buy market;

Sell order left above last

Defines the type of order you will enter by left-clicking in the sell column above the market price, by default you will enter a sell limit;

Sell order left below last

Defines the type of order you will enter by left-clicking in the sell column below the market price, by default you will enter a sell stop;

Sell order right above last

Defines the type of order you will enter by right-clicking in the sell column above the market price, by default you will enter a sell market;

Sell order right below last

Defines the type of order you will enter by right-clicking in the sell column above the market price, by default you will enter a sell market;