Positions

Positions panel displays an extended information about all currently opened positions, their P/L and prices

Positions panel displays all currently opened positions. Once you open a new position, it appears in this panel and becomes available to be managed. Positions panel is related to Portfolio group of Control Center sidebar.

Available columns

Account

login name of an account that opened a position

Symbol

a traded symbol

Description

comments for symbol

Symbol type

a symbol's market category (CFD, spot, stocks, etc.)

Expiration date

date of contract expiration

Position ID

a unique number that the trading system assigns to each position

Side

type of trade (BUY or SELL)

Open price

price at which a position was opened

Current price

a market price obtainable from a broker

Quantity

amount of a position, either in lots or in units, depending on what is selected in the Settings dialog box

Date/Time

date and time when a position was opened

Gross P/L

profit/loss in account currency, calculated on base of price difference

Gross P/L, ticks

Net P/L

profit/loss for a position excluding fee

Position exposure

exposure of a position, in the account currency. Calculated on base of an open price

Position value (open price)

open value of a position. Calculated on base of an open market price

Position value (current price)

current value of a position. Calculated on base of a current market price

Fee

shows total commission amount taken for a position

Swaps

amounts collected/paid out by a broker when a position is rolled over to a new value date

Expiration date

date of contract expiration

Strike price

price of option contract performance

Stop loss

Stop loss price set for a position

Take profit

Take profit price set for a position

Context menu actions

By right-clicking on each row of Positions panel, you will get a context menu with the following functions:

Selected position(s) actions

Modify position

Invokes the modification screen, allowing to add SL/TP orders to selected position manually

Modify SL to breakeven

Quick SL/TP

allows quick adding SL/TP orders to selected position

Close position

Options: close all selected positions, all positions by selected symbol, all positions for selected account, all positions

Reverse

allows reversing all selected positions, all positions by selected symbol, all positions by selected account, all positions

Common actions

Group by

Groups all rows by the selected column

Columns visibility

Allows to toggle the columns visibility

Hot buttons toolbar

In order to manage your position efficiently, there is a Hot buttons toolbar in Positions panel. It allows trader to perform the most crucial actions with each, several or all available opened positions in one click.

Depending on the panel settings, hot buttons can proceed without confirmation screen. Please be careful while using them.

Hot buttons list

Breakeven

Close all

closes all opened positions

CLX all

closes all opened positions and cancels all orders

Reverse all

reverses all positions

Close negative

closes the positions with negative P/L

Close positive

closes the positions with positive P/L

Close long

closes the positions with Side = Long

Close short

closes the positions with Side = Short

Close

closes all positions by selected symbol and account

Close selected

closes all selected positions

Reverse

reverses positions by selected symbol and account

Reverse selected

reverses all selected positions

CLX

closes opened positions and cancels orders by selected symbol and account

Hot buttons visibility

By default, not all of the available Hot buttons are displayed on Positions panel's toolbar. You can manage visibility of that buttons using the context menu: right-click with your mouse and toggle the desired buttons.

Hot buttons are situated on panel's toolbar, so become unavailable once you disable toolbar for specific panel in panel's settings.

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