User's guide

User interface

For working with charts, there is a “Chart” window.

This window can be opened for any financial instrument in several ways:

• Through the main window menu – “Trade/Chart/Name of financial instrument”
• Through the context menu of trade window by “Open chart” command;
• Through the context menu in information windows “Navigator”, “Market watch”, “Sum open position”, “Open position”, “Account history”, “Orders”, “Orders history” via “Open chart” command on the line of needed financial instrument.

In one “Window chart” one chart of one financial instrument is shown.

The chart has several main operation factors:

• Period – selected interval of time, all the incoming information is gathered and shown as one element of the chart. The Terminal provides the ability to set following periods: 1 minute; 5 minutes; 15 minutes; 30 minutes; 1 hour; 4 hours; 1 day; 1 week;
• Chart type – bars, candles, lines, ticks;
• Time axis, price axis with digitization;
• Name of financial instrument and period in the window headline;
• Indicators of technical analysis;
• Additional elements.

Within one period of received data four kinds of prices are usually highlighted: Open – the opening price which is first price of the period; Close – the closing price which is the last price of period; High – the maximum price during the period; Low – the minimum price during the period.

Three types of chart can disply the data gathered during one period:

• Bar – presents the vertical distance from Low level to High level, with short horizontal right mark on the Open level and left mark on the Close level;
• Candle – presents a vertical rectangle, bottom side of it is on the level of minimum Open and Close, top side is on the level of maximum Open and Close, also there are a vertical intervals from the middle of top side to the High level and form the middle of the bottom side to the Low level;
• Line – presents an uninterrupted line that connects close prices of periods.
• Tick chart – presents an uninterrupted line that connects average (between Bid and Ask) number of all incoming prices. This type of chart doesn’t attached to a time period.