Find the trading area

Before entering an order, locate the trading controls in the full window. The order ticket is on the right, directly below the watchlist. It contains the market and pending choices, volume, and Buy and Sell buttons. Below the chart, the trading panel shows Positions, Pending, and Closed positions. Now let us look closely at the order ticket.

How it works

In the order ticket, confirm the symbol and select Market. Set the volume to zero point zero one lots. Open the stop-loss and take-profit section, and enter both price levels. For this recorded example, the stop loss is one point one one five nine zero, and the take profit is one point one two zero one zero. These are demonstration values, not a trade recommendation. Leave one-click trading off so you can review the order.

Click Buy to open the review dialog. Read the account number, direction, symbol, and volume. Check that the stop loss and take profit shown here match the values you entered. The order has not been sent yet. Cancel returns to the ticket; Confirm sends the order to the broker. We confirm this small order on the demo account.

Open Positions and find the new trade. Our recorded buy opened at one point one one eight one two. The row shows zero point zero one lots and both protection levels. Use Columns if you need to display additional fields. Profit and loss can move while the position is open. The balance, equity, margin used, and available margin are account totals, rather than the result of just one row.

To close this demo position, use its close control at the far right of the row. Treat that control as an action that sends a close request. Wait for the position to disappear from Positions. Once it has closed, we can check the result in trade history.