Platform upgrade
As part of our on-going commitment to creating the ultimate trading platform for our customers, we have upgraded several features and added a variety of new tools. Some of these new updates were specifically requested by our customers.
Price Alerts (Web)
This new function, available on our Next Generation web platform allows customers to create an alert that is triggered when an instrument, selected by the customer, hits a specified price. This is especially useful if you want to be alerted to when a major support or resistance level has been breached. Customers will receive the alert as a pop-up on the platform, with the additional option to receive it by email too. When using the alerts function, customers can set various parameters, such as an expiry date, the direction (buy/sell), or opting for mid prices as the trigger. They can also view the points difference between an alert level and the current market price, in real time. An alert can be created per instrument, with the option to create as many alerts as required.
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Economic Calendar (Web)
This new function is available on the Next Generation web platform and presents customers with a calendar of previous and upcoming major economic announcements. Powered by Dow Jones Live Newswire, the calendar displays the date of the announcement, an indication of the potential market impact (low, medium or high), the previous figure, and some even include a forecast based on market expectations surrounding the announcement. Customers can set alerts to remind them of an upcoming announcement, filter results and even drag and drop an announcement from the calendar to create a countdown clock panel that gives them more visibility of major market events.
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Order Boundaries (Web/iPhone/iPad)
This new trading feature has been added to our Next Generation platform to allow our customers to specify a “boundary price range” on their order tickets within which they would like their orders to be executed. Orders will be rejected where the price at execution has moved outside the boundary range set by the customer. This is only available on market and stop entry orders.
This feature gives our customers the ability to directly limit the amount of “slippage” they are willing to accept between the screen price and the price at the point of execution. Anything outside of this “acceptable” boundary will be rejected. This gives our customers more control over the execution of market and stop entry orders, especially in fast-moving, volatile markets.
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Order Ticket preferences by Asset Class and Product (Web/iPhone/iPad)
This allows the order ticket for a specific instrument, or wider asset class, to be prepopulated with various information, such as trade quantity, default financing rates, stop, limit and take profit order levels, and any required boundary specifications. This can help save valuable time when transacting multiple trades across different asset types during major market events. Everything can be pre-set within the preferences section of the platform.
Mini Charts (Web)
In response to client feedback we have introduced ‘Mini Charts’. This new chart feature allows a client to fit a large number of price charts onto a standard computer screen, transforming it into a powerful financial markets monitoring tool. Up to 10 charts can be open at any one time and they are all updated in real time.
Historical Carry Charts (Web/iPad)
Where a product is subject to carry costs, such as a commodity, our customers can now view historical carry rate charts from within the Web and iPad platforms.
Separate Buy/Sell charts are provided, each showing the annualised daily carry rate for the previous 60 days which gives our customers greater transparency when it comes to understanding the costs of trading.
