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Platform and Exchange screens

Two screens for watching markets and trading by hand.

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Platform

Section titled “Platform”

Platform is a dashboard you arrange yourself.

  • Add a Panel adds balances, open and closed positions, orders, active and ended sessions, data sources or a broker log. For each instrument you can add a price tile, a price chart or a ticker.
  • Arbitrage panels. Top Arbitrage ranks the widest price gaps between venues, and Arbitrage Matrix shows every pair of venues for one instrument. Each card gives the spread before fees (gross) and after each venue’s taker fee (net); hover over a card to see how old its prices are. A spread is a gap in quoted prices, not a profit you can take: it leaves out slippage, the time to move funds and withdrawal fees. The panels show only venues whose prices we are allowed to display, and none is switched on yet, so for now they say the feed is unavailable. You need to be signed in to see them. The chart button opens two venues’ prices over the last eight days with the gross gap between them, from 15-minute opening prices; it has history only for venues whose prices are stored, OANDA and Bitfinex today.
  • Layouts. Save an arrangement as a named layout and switch between them. Forex Markets is the built-in layout; to change it, save a copy.
  • Price tiles show the live bid and ask, the spread, and fields for quantity, stop loss and take profit. Ordering from a price tile is not working at the moment: use the Exchange screen, or a trading session.
  • Charts mark your positions on the price, at most 100 at a time.

Exchange

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Exchange shows one instrument at a time: a ticker with 24-hour high, low, volume and change, a price chart, the trade ticket, and your balances, open positions, orders and fills. Crypto venues also show the order book, a depth chart and recent trades.

The trade ticket

Section titled “The trade ticket”
  • Order types: Market, Limit and Stop Limit. Limit needs a price; Stop Limit needs a stop price and a limit price. Click an order book level to copy its price.
  • Quantity must be a whole number of the instrument’s lot size. The ticket shows the order total and the funds you have on each side.
  • Buy and Sell stay disabled until the order is valid.
  • “Order submitted successfully” means the order was sent to the broker, not that it filled. Watch Orders and Fills for the broker’s answer.
  • Orders cannot be cancelled or changed from Cloud9Trader. Cancel a working limit order on the broker’s own site.
  • If the broker gives no answer within five seconds, the ticket says the order may have been placed. Check Orders before you try again, so you do not place it twice.

The ticket trades on connections added in Exchange API Keys. See Brokers for which brokers support which order types.

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