The order ticket
Market, direction and size are set in one panel, together with the stop loss and take profit levels where those are available on the instrument.
The trading platform is where an order is built, placed and then managed.
Order entry, the levels attached to a position and the record of everything currently open sit in one workspace rather than across several.
The workspace
Acting on a market and keeping track of the position are the same screen.
The platform is arranged around two jobs. The first is constructing an order — the market, the direction, the size, and the levels that are meant to close the position if it goes the wrong way. The second is everything after that: what is open, what margin it is holding, and what the result is doing while you are not watching it.
Studying a market is the third job, and it deliberately lives elsewhere. Advanced Charts, Technical Indicators, Economic Calendar and Market News are documented on the research page, because they belong to the decision before the order rather than to the order itself.
Layout
Charts, the ticket and your open positions are laid out together.
The arrangement is configurable, so the things you check most often end up closest to the order you are about to place.
What is already open
Open positions, the margin behind them and the result running on each one stay in view while you are working on something else.
Watchlists
Keep important instruments within easy reach.
Price Alerts
Stay informed when selected levels are reached.
From ticket to close
A position passes through the same five stages every time.
None of this is unique to one platform. It is the sequence any leveraged position goes through, and the job of a workspace is to keep each stage visible rather than to hurry you past it.
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Choose the market and the direction
Long or short, on an instrument you have already looked at. This stage belongs to the analysis rather than to the ticket, which is why it happens somewhere else first.
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Size the position against the margin
The size you enter determines the margin the position requires and what a movement in the price is worth to you. Both follow from the size, and both change when you change it.
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Attach the levels that close it
Stop loss and take profit levels, where available, are set with the order rather than remembered afterwards. A level is an instruction to close at a price. It is not a promise that the price will be there.
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Submit it as an instruction
Submitting sends the order to be executed. Whether it is filled, and at what price, depends on the market at that moment — in fast or thin conditions the two can differ.
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Manage what is now open
Levels can be moved and eligible positions can be reduced or closed while the market is open. Until a position is closed its result is unrealised, and unrealised results keep moving.
Deliberately absent
The platform organises a decision; it does not make one.
Three things worth stating plainly, because a workspace that looks capable is easily mistaken for one that is doing the thinking.
It does not recommend anything
No part of the workspace tells you what to buy or sell. Indicators and alerts describe conditions you selected. Reading them, and acting on them, stays with you.
It does not trade on your behalf
Every order is one you place. Nothing on this site offers to place orders for you, to mirror another trader's, or to manage a position while you are away from it.
It does not remove the risk
Stop loss levels and margin figures are controls, not protections. Leverage can magnify losses as well as gains, and a position with a level attached is still a position that can lose money.
The workspace is only as good as the decision you bring to it.
Everything above describes where a control sits and what it does. None of it improves a position that was not thought through before the ticket was opened, and none of it makes a leveraged position safe.
Trading involves risk of loss. The risk disclosure is not yet published; the standardised risk warning is shown at the foot of every page.