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Terminal Window

"Terminal" — is a multifunctional window enabling to control trade activity (Trade), view news (News) and account history (Account History), set alerts (Alerts), and also to work with internal mailbox (Mailbox) and system journal (Jornal). The window can be opened by menu command "View — Terminal", by pressing accelerators Ctrl+T, or by button on "Standard" toolbar.

"Trade" tab
"Trade" contains information about the current status of the account as well as records about open positions and the displayed orders. There are following command available in the context menu:

• New order
  a new order. At the command the order management window appears;


• Modify or Delete Order
  modify or delete "Stop Loss" and "Take Profit";


• Trailing Stop
  change the level "Trailing Stop". By choosing the trailing stop value in the menu it is possible to activate the order with the corresponding parameter. "None" serves for disabling the function. "Delete All" — to disable all Trailing Stops;


• Profit
  show profit (loss) in pips, base currency or in currency of trade transaction (As is);


• Show on Charts
  show/hide in the chart open positions' and displayed orders' levels;


• Comments
  show/hide the column "Comments";


• Auto Arrange
  automatic arrange of the column size by the change of the window size;


• Grid
  show/hide the grid for the column separation. Accelerators Ctrl+F9 switch the control focus the window "Terminal — Trade", after what the trade process can be managed by keyboard. It can be useful in case the mouse breaks down.

"News" tab
"News" tab contains the list of the incoming news. There are the following commands available in the context menu:

• View
  view selected news. News can also be read by the double-click of the left mouse button on the heading;


• Category
  show/hide the column "Category";


• Auto Arrange
  automatic arrange of the column size by the change of the window size;


• Grid
  show/hide the grid for the column separation.

"Account History" tab
"Account History" contains information about account history for the chosen time period. In the context menu the following commands are available:

• All History
  show the whole account history;


• Last 3 Month
  show account history for the last three months;


• Last Month
  show account history for the last month;


• Last Week
  show account history for the last week;


• Today
  show account history for today;


• Save as Report
  save account history on the hard disk in the format of a HTML-file;


• Comments
  show / hide the column "Comments";


• Grid
  show / hide the grid for column separation;


• Auto Arrange
  automatic setup of the column size by the change of the window size.

"Alerts" tab
"Alerts" contains information about the created signals. After the creation of signals it is possible to leave the monitor - the client terminal will inform by the voice signal about the performance of the specified event. The context menu contains the following commands:

• Create a new Alert
  create a new event alert;


• Modify
  modify alert;


• Delete
  delete alert;


• Enable On/Off
  enable/disable alert;


• Auto Arrange
  the automatic arrange of the column size by the change of the window size;


• Grid
  show / hide the grid for column separation.

Alert editing can be started by a double-click on the left mouse button. In this case, and also by execution of the commands "Modify" and "Create a new Alert" from context menu there will appear a window of the alert editor:

• Enable
  enable/disable alert;


• Action
  action executed by the event occurrence: to play the sound, voice message, launch a file, attach the expert advisor or send e-mail. By the sound playback, file and expert advisor launch it is necessary to indicate the corresponding files. In case of voice message usage it is required to indicate the language (field "Language") and the text of a message in the field "Source". By e-mail sending it is required writing the subject and the message text of e-mail;


• Symbol
  financial instrument;


• Condition
  condition ("Time=", "Bid<", "Bid>", "Ask<", "Ask>");


• Value
  value of the condition;


• Source
  signal. By sound playback, file and expert launch it is necessary to indicate the corresponding file path. In case of the usage of voice notification — text, in case of e-mail sending — message;


• Timeout
  time period, after which the alert is being repeated;


• Maximum iteration
  maximum iteration of alert.

Attention:

• To enable the alert operation on the basis of voice messages in the operation system should be installed Speech API 4.0 or higher version, and also Speech Engine;


• To send e-mails by the alerts' occurrence it is necessary to set the mail box parameters in program options. By "Test" button you can test selected alert.

"Mailbox" tab

"Mailbox" tab is intended for working with internal mailbox. This tab contains all incoming e-mails that received by Terminal. The content of the selected e-mail can be viewed by double-click of the left mouse button on the required heading or with the help of the command from the context menu "View" one can view the content of the selected e-mail, and delete the message by the command "Delete". Besides, from this tab it is possible to send letters to the system administrator and to the technical support department. Thereto it is necessary to run the command from the context menu "Create".

"Journal" tab

"Journal" tab contains the information about all actions of trader and client terminal for the current session. In the journal is fixed all information about terminal start and about the events during its operation, including all trading operations and the advisors' work. In the window are placed only the last messages. To check the previous messages it is necessary to run the command "Open" and choose the required file.

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