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Market Watch window

"Market Watch" window is a service window along with the windows "Data Window", "Navigator" and "Terminal". These are floating windows, they can be moved throughout the screen for their most useful presentation. "Market Watch" can be opened/closed with accelerators Ctrl+M, by menu command "View — Market Watch" or by pressing button on of the "Standard" toolbar.

In this window shown the list of financial instruments by which the client terminal receives quotations from the server. After the terminal installation the list will consist the initial set of instruments. By the next terminal launches the last list before the program shutdown is being restored.

By pressing the right mouse button in the area of the window "Market Watch" the context menu appears. The command "Show All Symbols" shows the list of all available tools. The quotation in the format "BID", "ASK", "DATE" start coming by these instruments. To minimize the traffic it is recommended to exclude the unused instrument from the quotations' window with the help of the command "Hide Symbol" or key Delete. In this case the quotations will come only by instruments remaining in the list. The command "Hide All Symbols" removes from the list all positions except for those having open positions. The command "Show Symbol List" invokes the window "Symbols", which has the list of all available instruments. The instruments in the window are grouped according their types: "Forex", "CFDs", "Futures", "Stocks", "Indexes". By command "Show Symbol" there can be added the required instruments, and by "Hide Symbol" — the instrument can be removed from the quotation window. The command "Chart Window" allow to open the chart's window of selected instrument. "New Order" invokes Order control window. By command "Popup Prices" or by pressing key F10 an additional quotation window can be displayed on screen. The instruments' list of this window corresponds with the list on "Market Watch".

"Tick Chart" tab and the homonymous command from context menu switch "Market Watch" window to the mode of tick prices display by selected instrument.

Data Window

"Data Window" window intended for displaying of information about prices (OHLC), bar date and bar time and also about the attached indicators. "Data Window" is an informative window and does not let carry out any actions. In this window it is possible to get the required information quickly and even copy it to the buffer for further usage. Thereto is it necessary to run the command "Copy", the only one available in the context menu.

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