5.
Account Window
Regular User Account WindowAs a regular
user, the account window displays real-time account information of your
account only. Such information includes an account summary, account
type, equity, buying power, % equity, deposit/withdrawals, required
margin, available margin, maintenance margin, liquidation margin, margin
ratio, profit & loss, Open P&L, close P&L, commission, total
P&L, % P&L, value, long value, short value, position, quantity
and tickets. To bring up the account window, simply navigate to the
menu bar and select Trade > Account. Your account window will appear
as in figure 5.1.
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Domain
Administrator Account Window
The
Domain Administrator account window shows all the accounts under your
domain. To bring up the Domain Administrator account window, go to the
menu bar Trade -> Account. You
will see an Account Selection window pop up (Figure 5.2). Select the Accounts you would like to view
by checking them and click OK, and then you will see the Account window
with all the selected accounts appear like inFigure 5.3. You may also
re-select the accounts to view at any time by right-clicking on the
Account window and left clicking to choose “Select Account” from the
drop-down menu.
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Figure 5.2 |
General The Domain Administrator account window
keeps track of all the real-time up-to-the-second account information
of all the accounts under your domain supervision.
Such information includes Account, Average Cost, Value at Risk,
Open P&L, Closed P&L, Total P&L, Shares, Tickets, Beginning-of-the-day
(BOD) Equity, Current Equity, Buying Power, P&L over Equity Ratio,
Leverage Ratio, and Equity Percentage.
Profits are xgreenx. Loses are xredx.
Long value is in xgreenx; Short value is in xredx.
All the information is marked-to-market in a
real-time streaming fashion as the market fluctuates.The bar at the
bottom of the window shows the aggregate value at risk, aggregate open
P&L; aggregate total P&L, and aggregate shares and tickets of
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Figure 5.3 |
View Position
To view the current positions of a particular account, simply double-click on that account, and then a Portfolio window with all the positions information of that account will pop up. Sort
Accounts You
can sort the accounts by using the right-click menu from column heading.
Right click on the column heading of the desired field as the
sort key, select the sorting order from the drop-down menu. User
Preferences Right
click on the Account window and then left click to choose “User Preferences”
from the drop-down menu. You will see the User Preferences window for the Account window
(Figure 5.4). 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.
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Figure 5.4 |
