The terminal is the screen a trader spends their day on. It is one page in the browser, no download and no MetaTrader bridge, and it is theirs to arrange: a grid of modules they place, resize and save. This page is the reference for what is in it. If you want to decide what a new trader sees the first time they open it, that is [Terminal presets](/docs/platform/admin/terminal-presets). ## The grid The terminal fills the window. It never scrolls, and it never has a leftover strip at the bottom: the row height is measured from the window, so the same layout on a laptop and on a 32 inch monitor is the same arrangement at a different size. How fine the grid is, is the trader's choice, from **6 by 3 up to 24 by 12**. A coarse grid is easier to arrange and a fine one lets a narrow order ticket sit next to a wide chart. Modules do not float upward into gaps: an empty cell stays empty, because a chart jumping into a hole somebody left on purpose is the thing that makes a grid feel like it is fighting you. Dragging happens from the title bar only. That is not a detail: a chart wants every pixel of pointer input for its crosshair, and a grid that grabs a drag anywhere in the cell makes the chart unusable. Making the grid smaller than the modules on it will fit does not delete anything. Whatever no longer fits is parked in a strip above the grid, and the trader puts it back or throws it away when they have made room. ## Modules Fifteen, in four groups. ### Trading | Module | What it does | | --- | --- | | Chart | Price chart with its own tabs, drawing, and trading straight off the chart. Each tab keeps its own market and timeframe and stays loaded, so flipping between six markets is instant | | Order ticket | Buy and sell, market and the four pending types, with stop loss, take profit and partial closes. Doubles as the editor for a position already open | | Order book | The depth ladder, where the feed carries a book. Where it does not, it says so rather than drawing an empty one | | Positions | Everything open, with profit recalculated per row from the last tick rather than from the server's copy | | Pending orders | Orders waiting for their price, with cancel | | History | Positions already closed, with their result | ### Market | Module | What it does | | --- | --- | | Watchlist | Everything you offer, searchable by ticker or company name, filtered by shares, ETFs, crypto, futures, forex or indices, each with a count. Stars for favourites, a six week line beside the live price, and the change since the previous session | | Instrument info | Where one market stands: the day range and year range drawn as bars with the price marked on them, the day's open, previous close and volume, and the leverage, lot sizes, tick size, spread, commission and swap your firm charges for it | | Market hours | Whether this market is open, when that changes, and the sessions coming up | | News | What is on the calendar for this market's currencies, and what your rules do about it | ### Account | Module | What it does | | --- | --- | | Account | Balance, equity, open profit, used and free margin, margin level, and today's result | | Challenge progress | The profit target in money rather than percent, trading days done against the minimum, and calendar days used against the limit | | Rules | Daily loss and drawdown, each filling toward its limit, amber at three quarters and red at nine tenths, with the exact equity the account fails at written underneath | ### Other | Module | What it does | | --- | --- | | Connection | Feed status and latency to the venue of the chart last used | | Notes | A scratchpad kept per account | A layout holds **at most 40 modules**. Nothing stops a trader putting three charts and two tickets on one screen if that is how they work. ## Colour groups Every module that shows a market carries a coloured dot in its title bar. Two modules with the same colour follow the same symbol. That is the whole mechanism, and it is what makes several charts worth having. A chart, a ticket, a ladder and an instrument panel all in red move together when the trader picks a market in any one of them, while a second set in blue stays where it was. There are five colours plus **not linked**, which is a module pinned to one market and left there. A colour nobody is using any more lets its symbol go, so a chart the trader closed does not keep a price stream open behind their back. ## Layouts An arrangement is saved on the server under a name, so a trader's screen follows them from their desktop to their laptop. They can keep several: a dense one for the open, a quiet one for holding positions. Saving is automatic, a little under a second after the last change, with a spinner in the layout menu while it happens and a dot if it failed. There is no save button, because a screen somebody is rearranging all day should not need one. From that menu a trader can also: - switch to another of their layouts - create, rename, duplicate or delete one - set which one opens by default - **put your firm's layout back**, which replaces what they have with the preset you set. A firm that has not set one hands out the platform arrangement, and the button says so rather than promising something that does not exist ## What a trader sees on their first visit A copy of your default preset, saved as their own layout under the name "My terminal". A copy, not a reference: changing a preset afterwards never rearranges a screen somebody has already made their own. If your firm has no preset, they get the platform's arrangement instead. See [Terminal presets](/docs/platform/admin/terminal-presets) for how to set yours.