How to Open a New Trade Chart on Platform

As a trader before opening a new trade you need to open a chart of the particular stock index that you as a trader want to trade so that as you as a Stock Index trader can first of all analyze the market moves & then decide whether to open a buy or a sell trade.

To open a trade on your platform follow the steps below

Once a trader chooses the open "New Chart" button, following sub menu will popup where a trader can choose the chart they want to open, if the chart is not on the list the trader should choose the groups & search within which group the particular chart they want to trade is located, for our example the group named "Group 6" contains all the index that we are interested in Index Trading - you as a stock indices trader can find all the charts of stock index here.

As a trader you as a stock indices trader can choose any index from the above menu named group 6 & all index are displayed here.

Method 2: Where to Find Stock Index

Another method of where to find index is to use the "Market-Watch" window as is displayed below.

To show market-watch use the button shown below or press the keyboard shortcut key CTRL+M

The Market-Watch window pop up will popup such as shown above with all the displayed trading as is shown above.

However, sometimes all the index might not be displayed, if the index that you as a trader want to trade is not listed on the above list you as a stock indices trader can use the following steps to show all the available charts.

1. Click anywhere inside the MarketWatch window

2. Select the option "Show All"

All the instruments available for trading will be shown & from this list you as a stock indices trader can choose the particular stock index that you as a trader want to trade & after selecting, click again within the Market-Watch window & this time choose "Hide All", this option will hide all the trading instruments which you're not therefore saving your internet bandwidth.

From the above symbols of stock index shown & displayed on the MarketWatch you as a stock indices trader can right click any symbol & then choose the option "Chart Window" & the chart for that particular stock index will be open on the platform workspace & you as a stock indices trader can then place indicators on this chart, analyze the market movement and also place new orders from the chart.

Method 3: How to Access Index Symbols

One can also use the "View" menu next file, once a indices trader goes on the view menu, trader can then choose the option "Symbols" as is displayed below.

After selecting the symbols button the following pop-up window pop up will popup showing all the available Groups of trading instruments, for our exemplification we want Group 6 instruments, expand this group 6 by clicking + plus button, a list of all the symbols of stock index will popup, choose any of the index that you want to add to the MarketWatch window & then click the "Show" button such as illustrated below.

After adding all the symbols that you want you'll then click the close button as is shown above & all the symbols for stock index will now be shown and displayed on the MarketWatch window & you as a Stock Index trader can open charts that you want from the Market-Watch window.

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