Trade Bar

Trade Bar allows navigating between the brokers and trading with few clicks. It contains a series of tabs, and you can trade through different brokers by switching tabs. It shows all the brokers for which you have created broker profiles, and allows you to flip through them by clicking on the appropriate tabs.

Trade Bar also shows you which broker connections are currently active by showing a green light next to broker name, and which ones are offline by showing a red light. It is a very convenient tool for placing orders without plotting charts or using DOM windows.

The main advantage is that you can see all of the currently connected brokers, and place orders through several brokers at the same time. For example, you may have one broker for Forex and another one for futures, and place orders on both without logging in or out.

How to Show/Hide Trade Bar

Trade Bar can be shown or hidden. Show/hideTrade Bar by one of the following methods:

• Select View In the main menu and enable/disable Show Trade Bar feature; or:
• Press Ctrl+Shift+T on the keyboard.

Alternatively you can click X on the Trade Bar to hide it.

Connecting / Disconnecting Broker Profile

To connect /disconnect the broker profile that you want to trade with, right-click the Broker Profile tab to see the shortcut menu and then click Connect / Disconnect.

Note: Broker Connection indicator on the Trade Bar shows Broker Profile connection status which is not the same as Data Feed connection status.

For more info see Broker Profiles and Built-in Data Sources

Selecting Account

Select the account number in the Account Selector box

Selecting Instrument

To select the instrument you want to trade with:

• Type in the symbol name into the Instrument Selector field and press Enter; or:
• Click on the Lookup button to select the necessary symbol from your database.

Note:To be able to trade the instrument from Trade Bar, you should add it to the Quote Manager (see Operating Symbol List).

Setting Order Quantity

Set order quantity by one of the following methods:

• Type in order quantity in Order Quantity box on Trade Bar; or:
• Click the Trading Calculator button .

Calculator automatically increments the current trade size setting by one, e.g. if you had 1 in order quantity field, calculator would automatically make it 2.

You can adjust the number of contracts by pressing +1, +2, +5 etc. buttons. Zero button resets the number of contracts to zero.

Buttons on the left side of the calculator contain 6 last values.

You may set this number of contracts by pressing those buttons. To apply the modifications click OK, to cancel the modifications click Cancel.