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 Watchlists
 Introduction to GT247.com

The Watchlists are where you store your favourite or frequently traded instruments, you have the option to create up to four Watchlists. Comprehensive real –time price & market data is provided for each instrument.
Note: All trades are initiated from the Watchlists Window.

Key Features

Bull Bear Indicator:
A real-time technical indicator which displays GT247.com’s trader sentiment and displays the relationship between bullish (buy) and bearish (sell) traders for each instrument.

 

Bull Bear Ratio Description Image
<=19% Extremely Bearish
>=20% and <40% Moderately Bearish
>=40% and <60% Neutral
>=60% and <80% Bullish
>=80% Extremely Bullish

 

Volatility Indicator:
An indicator which is designed to show the variance of the instrument’s 30 day volatility from the average 30 day volatility of all CFDs offered by GT247.com. Mouse over the indicator to show the instrument’s actual volatility. The indicator is updated on a weekly basis.

 

Relativity to Average Product Price Description Image
<-10% Instrument volatility is negatively less than the average volatility.
>= -10% and <= 10% Instrument volatility is similar to the average volatility.
>10% Instrument volatility is positively greater than the average volatility.

 

Market Status:
Shows the current market state of the instrument.

 

Market State
Open
Closed
Phone to trade
Open, not shortable

 

Creating Watchlists

To add an instrument to a Watchlist:
Select the instrument from the Product Navigator by any of the following means:
- Double click the instrument
Note: Ensure you have selected the correct Watchlist before double clicking
- Click the Add to Watchlist button
- Drag & drop the instrument from the Product Navigator onto the Watchlist
The instrument will now appear in the selected Watchlist window

Note: You will only be able to add an instrument to a Single Watchlist. It is not possible to add the same instrument to more than one Watchlist.

Maintaining Watchlists:
To remove an instrument from a Watchlist:
Select the instrument from the intended Watchlist by any of the following means:
- Clicking the ‘Remove from Watch list’ button on the Watchlists window
- Right clicking the instrument and selecting the Remove from Watchlist option
The instrument will now be removed from the selected Watchlist window

Sorting Data:
Certain Watchlist columns can be sorted. To sort data in a column, simply click the Sort indicator on the column heading.

 

Buttons:

Place Trade
Place Order
Remove Product


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 Terms you need to know
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 - Watchlists
 - Information Window
 - Favourites Ticker
 - Opening a Position
 - Open Transactions Window
 - Placing an Order
 - Account Balance
 - Trading Currency
 - Login and Logout
 - Desktop/Reports
 - Status Bar
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