Tutorials

Basic Charting

It is recommended that you view the Basic Charting tutorial before all other tutorials. The Basic Charting tutorial demonstrates some of the basic charting features offered with FX AccuCharts.

Topics Include:

• What is a price page?
• How to open a price page
• How to open a chart from a price page
• How to change the interval on a chart
• How to change the chart type
• How to link a chart to a price page

Analysis Tools

The Analysis Tools tutorial demonstrates how to insert and customize analysis tools into your charts. FX AccuCharts offers a wide selection of analysis tools. This tutorial uses Bollinger Bands and Moving Average Convergence Divergence for examples.

Topics Include:

• How to insert analysis tools into a chart
• How to view and change the properties of the inserted analysis tools

Drawing

The Drawing tutorial demonstrates how to use drawing tools on a chart.

Topics Include:

• How to draw a Free Line
• How to extend a Free Line to the right and to the left
• How to draw Fibonacci Retracements
• How to expand your chart to get a closer view of a period of time
• How to compare future prices with your drawing tools

Alerts

The Alerts tutorial demonstrates how to set an alert. FX AccuCharts features 3 types of alerts including Price, Time and Intersection.

Topics Include:

• How to set a Price alert
• How to set an Intersection alert based on a Currency Pair price intersecting a trendline
• How to change the notification settings for each alert

Workspaces

The Workspaces tutorial demonstrates how to build and save a workspace within FX AccuCharts. A workspace is a useful feature that provides a quick and easy way to load your charting environment.

Topics Include:

• How to open a price page and a chart
• How to insert analysis tools into a chart
• How to change the background color on a chart
• How to add multiple charts to a single window
• How to save your charting environment to a workspace
• How to open a workspace

Virtual Pages

It is recommended that you view the Workspaces tutorial before the Virtual Pages tutorial. The Virtual Pages tutorial demonstrates how to create virtual pages. A virtual page is made up of 0 or more document windows such as charts and price pages. You can maintain up to 20 virtual pages within a single workspace. Each Virtual page’s contents are completely independent of the others. Each time you save your workspace, your virtual pages are automatically saved.

Topics Include:

• How to build charting environments in separate virtual pages
• How to jump from one virtual page to the next

Currency Pair Views

Duration: 2:10 minutes

This tutorial shows the two different Currency Pair Views and how to access the different Currency Pairs. Currency Pair View I shows 10 Currency Pairs. Currency Pair View II shows 8 Currency Pairs.

How to Place an Entry Order

Duration: 1:37 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to place Entry Orders on the GTS Platform. An Entry Order is a Pending Order that is placed at a price above/below the current Market Price. When this price is hit, the order is activated and becomes a Market Order.

How to Place a Market Order

Duration: 1:37 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to place a Market Order in both Currency Pair Views and also how to place stops/limits immediately after you submit your Market Orders.

How to Place Stops/Limits

Duration: 1:43 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to place Stops and Limits on new Market Orders, old Market Orders and how to replace/cancel existing stops/limits.>

How to Place Trailing Stops

Duration: 43 seconds

This tutorial shows how to place Trailing Stops and how to know when the trailing stop will move. Trailing Stops allow clients to designate a stop order and choose an increment in which the stop will trail the market.

How to Close an Order

Duration: 1:16 minutes

This tutorial shows how to close an Open Trade.

Hedging

Duration: 1:04 minutes

This tutorial shows how the GTS Platform gives clients the ability to Hedge. Hedging allows the trader to be both Long and Short in the same Currency Pair at the same time.

Close and Reverse

Duration: 28 seconds

This tutorial shows how to use the CAR button to close an existing open position and opens a new open position in the opposite direction. For example, if you are Long USD/JPY and hit CAR, it will close this position and open a new order that is Short USD/JPY.

Brief Customization

Duration: 1:33 minutes

This tutorial shows how to customize the trading platform and create different looks that best suit your trading style.

Trading Customization

Duration: 48 seconds

This tutorial shows how to change the look and feel of the Trading Section by adding and removing columns that will enhance your trading activity.