The Market Watch Window offers a comprehensive view of financial instrument price data, including prices, statistics, quotes, and tick charts. It also provides detailed information on contract specifications and options for One-Click Trading.
The Market Watch window enables you to show or hide selected financial instruments and other price data, such as high/low, spread, source, and time. You can configure the displayed data through the context menu.
Prices in the "Market Watch" window have different colors:
- Blue — the current price is higher than the previous one;
- Red — the current price is lower than the previous one;
- Gray — the price has not changed for the last 15 seconds.
If the depth of market and the Last trade price is available for a symbol, the color is determined by the Last price. Otherwise, the color is determined by the Bid price.
How to enable Market Watch?
The Market Watch can be enabled (or disabled) in one of the following ways:
- Select View from the Main Menu and then Market Watch
- Use the key combination Ctrl+M
Market Watch Features
The Market Watch consists of the following tabs: Symbols, Details, Trading and Ticks.
- Symbols Tab: Shows a list of all available trading instruments. It allows you to add or remove symbols by right-clicking and selecting Symbols.
- Details Tab: To view statistics, select a financial instrument in the Symbol tab and click Details.
- Trading Tabs: The One Click Trading Option is available on the Trading tab. Upon clicking on the “Sell” or “Buy” button, a request to perform the corresponding trade operation in the specified volume is instantly sent to the server.
- Tick: To view the tick chart of an instrument, select a symbol in the Symbols tab of the Market Watch and switch the Ticks tab.
The Market watch has the potential to provide a lot of information regarding the instruments, e.g. Bid Price, Ask Price, Volume, Spread, Daily Changes, etc.
- Right-click anywhere in the Market Watch
- Hover over Columns
- Select the information you want to be displayed.
Market Watch and Specifications
To check the specifications of specific instruments, including swap charges for a currency position:
- Right-click on the desired currency pair in the Market Watch panel.
- Select Symbols, choose the symbol you want to view, and then click Specification. This will display the details of the currency pair.