Download User Guide - Berkeley Futures Limited

Trading With J-Trader
Follow these steps:
1 In a trading window, select the Status tab.
2 In the Account field, select the account to monitor.
3 If contracts are in the Working (upper) pane but greyed out, the exchange is closed. Expired multiday
orders and day orders appear in the Completed (lower) pane. To purge expired orders from
both the Status screen and the rest of J-Trader, click Purge (bottom-left of screen).
4 You can adjust the display as follows:
To do this
(De)select and
resize columns
Sort orders
Filter orders
Follow these steps
Right-click over any cell. The columns you can choose from are described in Status
Screen Columns (page 58).
Left-click the column heading you want to sort by. Click again and the sort order is
reversed. An icon appears to indicate both the column and the sort direction.
You have two choices:
Right-click a column heading and select an item from the list. For example, to list
orders from one exchange only, right-click the Exchange column and select the
relevant exchange. For some columns, you have an editable field, for inputting
ranges and wildcards: e.g. E* for all items starting with the letter ‘E’.
The headers of filtered columns change colour to show what filtering applies.
Click (in either the Working or Completed pane) and select the filter
parameters you want.
To turn off filtering:
Either click , namely the button to the right of .
Or right-click on any cell and select Remove Filter.
5 The buttons in the Working Orders (upper) pane are as follows:
Button
Pull orders
Activate
Deactivate
Explanation
Pulls the selected orders. You can only pull orders that are working, inactive or partfilled
(any filled lots remain in your position.
You can pull an individual order by highlighting it and clicking
column), and you can pull all orders by clicking Pull All.
Submits an inactive order (Status = I) to the exchange.
(by default, the last
Inactivates an order (Status = I): the order stays in the order book, but is removed from
the market until you click Activate.
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