How to Open a New Stock Index Trade Chart on Trading Platform
As a trader before opening a new trade you need to open a chart of the particular stock index that you want to trade so that you can first of all analyze the market moves & then decide whether to open a buy or a sell trade.
To open a trade on your indices trading platform follow the steps below
Once a trader selects the open "New Chart" button, following sub menu will popup where a trader can choose the chart they want to open, if the chart is not on the list the trader should choose the groups & search within which group the particular chart they want to trade is located, for our example the group named "Group 6" contains all the index that we are interested in Stock Index Trading - you can find all the charts of stock index here.
As a trader you can choose any index from the above menu named group 6 & all index are displayed here.
Method 2: Where to Find Stock Indices
Another method of where to find index is to use the "Market-Watch" window as is shown below.
To show market-watch use the button shown below or press the keyboard shortcut key CTRL+M
The MarketWatch window pop up will popup as shown above with all the displayed trading stock index as shown above.
However, sometimes all the index might not be displayed, if the index that you want to trade is not listed on the above list you can use the following steps to show all the available charts.
1. Click anywhere inside the MarketWatch widow
2. Select the option "Show All"
All the instruments available for trading will be shown & from this list you can choose the particular stock index that you want to trade & after selecting, click again within the MarketWatch window & this time choose "Hide All", this option will hide all the instruments that you're not trading therefore saving your internet bandwidth.
From the above trading symbols of stock index shown on the MarketWatch you can rightclick any symbol & then choose the option "Chart Window" & the chart for that particular stock index will be open on the platform workspace & you can then place indicators on this chart, analyze the market movement and also place new orders from the chart.
Method 3: How to Access Stock Indexes Symbols
A trader can also use the "View" menu next file, once a trader goes on the view menu, trader can then choose the option "Symbols" as is shown below.
After selecting the symbols button the following popup window pop up will popup showing all the available Groups of trading instruments, for our example we want Group 6 instruments, expand this group 6 by clicking the + plus button, a list of all symbols of stock index will popup, choose any of the index that you want to add to the MarketWatch window & then click the "Show" button as illustrated below.
After adding all the index symbols that you want you'll then click the close button as shown above & all the symbols for stock index will now be displayed on the MarketWatch window & you can open charts that you want from the MarketWatch window.
