There are different techniques of the work acceleration in the client terminal. The following means are available:
- Quick navigation line
- Accelerators
- Hot-keys
Quick navigation line
Quick navigation line is used for the fast change of the chart and / or its period as well as for the precise screen shift. Quick navigation line can be opened by Enter button, whereupon quick navigation line appears at the left bottom of the chart window.
One can also point cursor to the left bottom of the chart window and, after sign appears, double-click on left mouse button.
Quick navigation line commands' format:
- [exact time (hours:minutes)]
- [exact date]
- [exact time and date]
- [financial instrument name], [chart period]
- [financial instrument name]
- [chart period]
Attention: one can run the command by Enter button, close the line — by Esc button.
Remember that only one of mentioned commands can be run in the fast navigation line. The simultaneous execution of several commands will not give the desired result.
To shift the screen to the concrete date and time there is needed a spacer in the form of a gap. For example, the command that enables to shift to the bar received at 8:30, October 16th, 2004, will look like "2004.10.16 08:30". Along with date formats YEAR.MONTH.DATE (XXXX.XX.XX) and DATE.MONTH.YEAR (XX.XX.XXXX), one can also indicate DATE.MONTH.YEAR (XX.XX.XX). At the same time it is impossible to indicate the date as YEAR.MONTH.DATE (XX.XX.XX). The first zero by entering time can also be omitted, for example, instead of "08:30" one can simply write "8:30". After the instrument change it is necessary to indicate its full name. By indication of the chart period the letter "Ì" can be omitted. At the command of "GBPUSD 30", as well as of "GBPUSD Ì30" there will happen the change of the financial instrument and period for a thirty-minute chart Pound - Dollar.
Accelerators
Accelerators are the keys and key-combinations that enable the fast run of different programmes.
accelerators that run command in the active chart window:
- "left" — chart's scroll to the left;
- "right" — chart's scroll to the right;
- "up" or "Page Up — fast chart's scroll to the left;
- "down" or "Page Down — fast chart's scroll to the right;
- Home — move the chart to the beginning;
- End — move the chart to the end;
- "-" — decrease the chart's scale;
- "+" — increase the chart's scale;
- Alt+1 — show chart as a bar sequence (transform into a bar chart);
- Alt+2 — show chart as Japanese candlsticks' sequence (transform into a candlsticks chart);
- Alt+3 — show chart as a polyline (transform into a line chart);
- Ctrl+A — set by default the height of all the indicators' windows;
- Ctrl+E — enable/disable the advisor's usage;
- Ctrl+G — show/hide the grid;
- Ctrl+L — show/hide volumes;
- Ctrl+I — show the window "Indicators";
- Ctrl+S — save the chart in the file with extensions "CSV", "PRN", "HTM";
- Ctrl+P — print chart window image;
- Ctrl+F4 — close the chart window;
- Ctrl+F6 — activate the next chart window;
- Delete — delete all the selected graphic objects;
- Backspace — delete in the chart window the last objects;
- F6 — testing of the advisor attached to the chart window;
- F7 — change of the advisor's settings attached to the chart window;
- F8 — show the window "Properties" (indicator properties, if the cursor pointed in the indicator window; chart properties - in all other cases);
- F9 — show the window "New Order";
- F12 — shift the chart on one bar to the left;
- Enter — open/close the quick navigation line window.
accelerators that run the commands of the general control over the client terminal:
- Alt+F4 — close the clients terminal;
- Ctrl+M — open/close the window "Market Watch";
- Ctrl+N — open/close the window "Navigator";
- Ctrl+T — open/close the window "Terminal";
- Ctrl+O — open/close Client terminal options window;
- F1 — open this User Guide;
- F2 — open "History Center";
- F3, F10 — open the window "Popup Prices";
- F4 — start "MetaEditor";
- Esc — close the dialog windows.
Hot Keys
To enable a quick control over main menu in the terminal are enabled hot keys. If a hot key is assigned for a command or submenu, it is marked by underlining. In order to proceed to the hot keys' mode, it is necessary to press "Alt" button. This action switch point to menu "File" and to the underlining letters in the submenu.
Any command of the open menu can be run by pressing the hot key appointed for this command. This command can also be run by pressing the button Enter. After command run the keyboard turns into the accelerators' mode.
