Working with Orders, Trades, Positions and Portfolio

Streamster™ provides powerful and easy-to-use tools for trading and detailed view of your portfolio and all past trading actions. All trading options are accessed from the Orders, Trades, Positions, Portfolio and Charting windows in the Streamster.

Orders

The Orders window is used for placing and organizing orders. You are offered to work with Market, Limit and Stop orders, depending on when you want its life on the market to begin.

Placing a new order

To place a new order:

• Click on the New button within the Orders window
• You are able to enter or change parameters of the order: Price, Price Type, Duration Type (Duration), Quantity, Quantity Type, Exit Stop-Loss, Exit Target and Text
• Click OK

The order will be placed in the Orders window with status ACTIVE if it waits to be executed, and with status EXECUTED if it is executed immediately.

Editing an order

To edit an order, it must have the status ACTIVE:

• Within the Orders window click on the row of the order you wish to edit
• Click on Change...
• You are able to enter or change parameters: Price, Price Type, Duration Type (Duration), Quantity, Quantity Type, Exit Stop-Loss, Exit Target and Text
• Click OK

Viewing and reordering columns

Streamster allows you to add, remove and reorder columns in the Orders window to suit your needs:

• Click on the Columns button within the Orders window
• Select the columns you wish to see and use Move Up and Move Down buttons to move columns left and right in the Orders window, respectively
• Click OK

Canceling orders

To cancel one order, it must have the status ACTIVE:

• Within the Orders window click on the row of the order you wish to cancel
• Click on Cancel...
• Click Yes

To cancel orders that have status ACTIVE, click on the Cancel All button in the Orders window. You will be asked to cancel Buy, Sell or All orders. Make your choice and click OK. Orders you choose to cancel, if active, receive status CANCELLED.

Clearing Orders window

To remove all EXECUTED and CANCELLED orders from the Orders window click on Clear button within the Orders window.

Trades

The Trades window gives you a complete view on trading actions you preformed. You can customize view on the window to achieve the best ground for analysis of your past trades.

Viewing and reordering columns

Streamster allows you to add, remove and reorder columns in the Trades window to suit your needs:

• Click on the Columns button within the Trades window
• Select the columns you wish to see and use Move Up and Move Down buttons to move columns left and right in the Trades window, respectively
• Click OK

Clearing Trades window

To remove all CONFIRMED trades from the Trades window click on Clear button in the Trades window.

Positions

When you want to open a position you need to place an "entry" order. If and when the entry order executes, the position becomes OPEN and starts its life on the market. For a previously opened position an instruction to close it may be entered at any moment.

Editing a position

To edit a position, it must have the status OPENED:

• Within the Positions window click on the row of the position you wish to edit
• Click on Change... button
• You are able to enter or change parameters: Exit Stop-Loss, Exit Target and text written in the Text column
• Click OK

View and reorder columns

Streamster allows you to add, remove and reorder columns in the Positions window to suit your needs:

• Click on the Columns button within the Positions window
• Select the columns you wish to see and use Move Up and Move Down buttons to move columns left and right in the Positions window, respectively
• Click OK

Closing a position

To close an OPEN position:

• Within the Positions window click on the row of the position you wish to close
• Click on Close... button
• The position will be set to status CLOSED

Closing multiple positions

To close multiple positions:

• Click on Close in the Positions window
• You can chose to close All, Short or Long positions

Removing closed positions

To remove all CLOSED positions from the Positions window click on the Clear button.

Portfolio

The Portfolio window displays your current Cash and Market Instrument positions for live and virtual trading desks.