Meeting the Demands of Online Traders
Modern traders and investors increasingly demand usability, mobility, performance, and service when executing online trades. Tradestone Markets meets these demands through its state-of-the-art technical tools and features. Clients can access real-time account information, streaming prices and the tools to trade and manage their positions at anytime and from any location. Tradestone Markets also allows clients to take advantage of a variety of features that empower them to make more effective trading decisions and better understand and evaluate investment potential.
Fully customizable workspaces offer traders complete control over their online trading environment.
Customizable Views
The Tradestone WebTrader platform, allows for quick, convenient access to any number of screen layouts through the use of tabs along the top of the workspace. There are predefined views but users can easily create their own individual set-up.
Example views include:
- A trading view, dedicated to frequently traded or preferred instruments, complete with trade modules, charts, analysis and news for those instrument.
- An account view, including the user’s current open positions, pending orders, margin requirement and cash balance.
- A research view with market reports and updates from Tradestone Markets and top market analysts.
Dockable Panels
Tradestone Markets’ TradestoneTrader platform helps make the best use of available space.
Space-saving features include:
- Panels (both single and tabbed groups) can float outside of the platform — perfect for multiple screen set ups
- Panels can be tabbed on top of one another
- Panels can be docked together
- Panels can be hidden when not in use.
Documents & Panels
Within TradestoneTrader, trading modules and tools can be displayed in different formats. The format chosen depends on the module.
- Documents — a format best-suited for larger tools that contain a lot of information or text. Documents fill the whole screen and form the basis of a view
- Panels — a more flexible format that allows modules to be located around the documents, moved around the workspace and even placed outside the workspace if one works with multiple screens.
Charting Functionality
Online Financial Charting Systems
The powerful charting system on TradestoneTrader allows traders to manipulate, analyse and compare historic prices for multiple instruments. The Chart module is used to track the price movements of a selected instrument. It contains a variety of charting types to suit the preferences and needs of different traders, and analysis tools to track and predict price movements.
Clients can benefit from the functionality and features of a professional charting subscription, delivered as standard, and enjoy unprecedented facilities for analysing historic price data for an instrument.
Tradestone Markets chart styles include: Bar, HLC Bar, OHLC, Bid/Ask, Candlestick, Dot, Forest, Line, Line-Dot, Staircase and Comparative.
Drag and Zoom Charting
The Chart module contains zooming and scaling features to allow traders to re-size charts to highlight specific areas of information. Auto-resizing is also available for increased usability. The charting system allows quick movement around the price data for an instrument.
Users can:
- Drag the chart to see past data
- Drag the axes to scale or compress the chart
- Zoom in and out using the zoom tool
- Auto Scale fits data automatically to size of chart.
Analyse Patterns & Trends
The TradestoneTrader charting system contains a number of tools to help traders analyse patterns and trends including:
- Multiple lines and annotations such as trend line, horizontal line, Fibonacci and pitchfork
- A variety of charting studies.
- Text boxes to assist traders in analysing patterns and recording data.
Account Integration
Tradestone Markets’ clients can see related orders, including Limit, Stop and Trailing stop orders, from their trading accounts on the relevant charts. The open orders can be Related Stop/Loss and Limit Profit Targets and can be changed and modified directly from the chart.
Technical Studies
Various technical studies are available, including Bollinger Bands, Moving Average, Pivot Lines, Slow Stochastic and MACD. Some studies are equipped with dialogue boxes where the study’s parameters and appearance of the analysis can be specified. A dialogue box will appear when a study is added.
Compare Multiple Instruments
Traders can display multiple instruments on the same axis for easy comparison, as well as dragging and setting the reference point to compare specific points in time.
This study allows the examination of the correlation between different financial instruments. When in comparative mode, the price axis displays the percentage correlation between the instruments’ price values. It is possible to also set a particular point of time as the reference point. Once the reference point is set, the charted instruments are drawn as relative percentage offsets from that value.
Economic Calendar
Tradestone Markets provides clients with a customizable macroeconomic calendar for data events in the major global economies. Data is displayed in time-line sequence and clients can filter by data type, time period and country. The calendar includes, where possible, consensus estimates and the previous value for macroeconomic data.
Financial Newswires
Keeping up-to-date with the latest Forex, Stock and commodities news is crucial for active investors. That’s why all of Tradestone Markets’ trading platforms include free real-time market news from a variety of leading global and regional newswires. We offer basic and advanced FX and Equity news in English as well as broad market coverage in 11 other languages.
Personalizing your Tradestone Markets news service is easy – you can set up custom profiles that filter by sector, asset, subject, region or country, so you’ll always see the news that matters most to you.
News providers
Dow Jones Newswires - Your Tradestone Markets account gives you 24-hour access to breaking news and commentary from Dow Jones Newswires. Delivering a stream of headlines from the financial markets and commentary from experienced journalists, Dow Jones Newswires is a trusted news source for professional traders and investors worldwide.
Market News International - Market News International focuses on the most timely, insightful, relevant and practical financial market news, all in real-time. MNI’s FX Bullets and Commodity Bullets cover intraday trading in the world’s major currency and commodities markets, economic indicators and other market-moving news.
Risk Management
Clients can control their risk at all times with instant trade confirmations, real-time margin summary and real-time account reporting.
The use of stop loss/trailing stop orders means that downside losses can be minimised and profits can be locked in.
Regular stop orders are designed to help protect investments against adverse market moves. Stop orders can be placed for positions on all instruments for disciplined trading and to limit the risk for excessive losses. This means that investors can leave their trading platform feeling that they have taken measures to limit losses should the market move against them in their absence.
Trailing Stops are the lesser-known, lesser-used option. They allow investors to set a pip distance, so if the current price should fall by that number of pips, the position will automatically be sold. If the current price should rise, however, the percentage level is then calculated from the new highest value. Trailing stops can therefore prove an excellent possibility for minimising loss or potentially locking in profits should the markets move against investment positions.
Both regular stop orders and trailing stops are available to Tradestone Markets clients on all trading platforms. Depending on the asset class traded, a variety of stop instruments can be used to match the kind of risk limitations investor’s seek.
Most traders cannot be available 100% of the time. A Stop order is an effective way to protect capital and limit risk. It is also a nice way to limit oneself from intraday price volatility.