9. Market Watch

 

To bring up the Market Watch window, go to the menu bar Market > Market Watch or click on the toolbar icon.  

 

General

To get Market Watch quotes of a symbol, just simply type in your currency symbol into a cell in the Symbol column.  Once you type in a currency pair, it will be saved to your symbol list.  Your symbol list will be retrieved automatically everytime your login.  To delete a currency pair from your symbol list, just delete the symbol from the Symbol cell and hit enter.  (Figure 9.1) 

 

Right click on the Market Watch window, you will see a drop-down menu (see Figure 9.2). Use these options in the drop-down menu to customize your Market Watch.

Figure 9.1

Customize Columns

You can use this option to add or remove columns in your Market Watch display.  You can also use it to change the order of the columns displayed.  Please read section 2.3 General Functionality for its detailed instruction.

 

Market Depth View and Chart View

Right click on a row and left click to choose Market Depth View or Chart View from the drop-down menu (for example, CHF/JPY as in Figure 9.2).  This action will bring up the Market Depth window or Chart window of the selected symbol. 

 

Export Symbol Quotes

You can export the symbols and their quotes from your Market Watch window to a text file by using the Export to File function from the Right-Click menu.

 

Print

Use this function in the right-click drop-down menu to print all symbols and their quotes from your Market Watch window.

 

User Preferences

Right click on the Market Watch window and then left click to choose “User Preferences” from the drop-down menu.  You will see the User Preferences window for Market Watch (Figure 9.3).  You may change the Action Settings and Display Settings here.  You can click on the Restore Defaults button to restore to default value.  When you finish setting your preferences, click Apply for your change to take effect, then click OK.  Click Cancel to disregard the change.

Figure 9.2

Figure 9.3