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Adding a trade
Adding a trade
The Add trade button allows you to add a trade to the table.
Important! If an account has been open for more than 50 days in the Daily operations section, or if the account's open days exceed 10 000 trades, the account row in the table will be colored red, and trading will be impossible until appropriate adjustments are made.
Main info
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Transaction type | direct, transfer or settlement. |
| Client account | is filled in automatically when adding a transaction in the account card. When adding a transaction through the History section, you must select the client account for adding the transaction yourself. |
| Provider account | Liquidity provider's or counterparty's account for the trade. |
| Instrument | The instrument involved in the trade |
| Option instrument | checkbox allows you to enable the selector for adding option instruments. |
| Side | Buy or Sell. |
| Value date | The value date for the instrument. |
Price and amount
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Amount | Amount of the instrument in the trade. |
| Trade price | The price of the instrument in the trade. |
| Quote amount | The quoted amount of the instrument in the trade. |
| Custom markup | When filled in, the markup for the client transaction set in the Tariff of the account is overwritten by the one set in the field. |
Please note! When filling in one of the fields -AmountorQuote amount, the second field is recalculated automatically. For independent filling ofAmount,Quote amountandTrade pricefields it is necessary to enableIndependent fieldscheckbox.
Optional fields
Trade details
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Transaction time | checkbox enables an additional field where you can manually specify the time of transaction. The Set current button allows you to set the current value of the current date and time in the field. The transaction time automatically updates the trade date if it is manually changed. If the trade date value is set manually, editing the transaction time will not overwrite it. |
| Comment | Custom comment for the trade (also shown in the client's terminal). |
| Order ID | Specifies the ID of the related order, if applicable. |
| Client close trade ID | Reference to the ID of the closing trade. |
| Trade date | The date the trade is executed. |
| Provider commission | Commission to be transferred from the broker's nominal account to the provider's account. The commission cannot be negative. The commission accuracy cannot exceed that of the base asset's netting scale. |
| Client commission | Commission to be transferred from the client's account to the provider's account. The commission cannot be negative. The commission accuracy cannot exceed that of the base asset's netting scale. |
Please note! Comment added to the trade is also shown to client.
Client commission field allows you to manually set the trade commission manually.
Please note! If theClient commission fieldis filled, the entered value will overwrite the commission set in theTariffsettings.
Processing settings
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When the Send to FIX option is enabled, trade details will be transmitted via the FIX protocol.
The Skip margin check option allows you to create a trade without verifying the account's margin sufficiency.
When selecting an instrument of the CASH category, the Markup is applied to base option is available, which allows the price markup to be applied to the base currency of the instrument instead of the quoted currency.
Please note! For trades added to Client type accounts, markup is calculated and added to the trade price automatically.
When the Do not apply tariff option is enabled, the Tariff settings of the account (except for price markups) are not applied to the trade.
When you click the Add trade button, the trade with all the specified parameters will be added to the platform.
Adding a trade with an option instrument
To add a trade with an option instrument, you need to check the Option instrument checkbox in the trade addition side page.
Please note! When selecting a specific tenor for an option, theOption type,Strike, andExpiration datevalues will be automatically entered into the trade.
After that, several additional fields will become available in the side page.
Option specs
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Option type | Call/Put. |
| Strike | The delivery/write-off price of the underlying asset if the client decides to exercise the option. |
| Expiration date | The last possible day to exercise the option. |
| Base asset price | Price of the underlying asset in the option instrument. |
Price and amount
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Nominal amount | The base asset's volume in the trade, calculated as: Nominal amount = Premium notional amount / (Premium pips * Instrument lot size). The value in the field is rounded according to the Min. order size of the instrument. |
| Premium notional amount | Premium amount: Premium notional amount = Nominal amount * Premium pips * Instrument lot size. The value in the field is rounded according to the Min. order size of the instrument. |
| Option premium | The premium amount in percentage is calculated as: Premium pips / Strike price * 100%. The value in the field is rounded according to the netting scale of the quoted asset. |
| Premium points | Premium amount in points, always calculated automatically: Premium pips = Premium notional amount / (Nominal amount * Instrument lot size). The value in the field is rounded according to the netting scale of the quoted asset. |
TheNominal amount,Premium notional amount, andOption Premiumfields are interdependent. TheAuto calculatecheckbox allows to enable automatic calculation of any of these fields when entering values in the other two fields.
When you click the Add trade button, the trade with all the specified parameters will be added to the platform.