E -Trade User Manual
Index
Introduction …………………………………………….………..…………. 3
1. Login Page ……………………………………………….…………. 4
2. Main Page ………………………………….…………………….…. 6
2.1 Main Menu ………………….……………….…………………..…. 7
2.1.1 Market Watch Menu ……………….……….………...……. 8
2.1.2 Financial Information ………………………….……….……10
2.1.3 Statistics ………………………………….…………………..12
2.1.4 Options ……………………………………………………… 13
2.1.5 Graphics ……………………….…………………...….…… 15
2.1.6 Help ………………………….…………………...….……….15
2.2 General Information …………….……………………………….. 17
2.3 My Market Watch …………………………………………...……. 18
2.4 Buy/Sell
2.4.1 Buy Order …………………………………………..….…….. 21
2.4.2 Sell Order …………………………...……………….…...….. 25
2.5 Market Depth …………….…………………..………..…………. 29
2.6 Portfolio ….…………….…………………………………………. 30
2.7 Messages ………………………………….………….....….……. 31
2.8 Manage Order ……………………….………………..…….……. 32
2.8.1 Active Order ………………………………….…..….……… 33
2.8.2 Out Of Market Order……..……………….….….….………. 39
3. General Error Messages…………………………..….….……… 40
3.1 Sell Change Order Error Messages………………….……… 40
3.2 Buy Change Order Error Messages…….………….....…….. 42
3.3 Error Messages ……………………………………………….. 43
1. Login 5
2. Main Page 7
2.1 Main Menu 8
2.2 General Information 18
2.3 My Market Watch 19
2.4.1 Buy Order 22
2.4.2 Sell Order 26
2.5 Market Depth 30
2.6 Portfolio 31
2.7 Messages 32
Introduction
Electronic trading, sometimes called etrading, is a method of trading securities (such as stocks, and bonds), foreign currency, and exchange traded derivatives electronically. It uses information technology to bring together buyers and sellers through electronic media to create a virtual market place. NASDAQ, NYSE, Arca and Globex are examples of electronic market places. Exchanges that facilitate electronic trading in the United States are regulated by either the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and are generally called electronic communications networks or ECNs.
1. Login
To log into the system, the user must have the user name and password provided from the administrator of the company.
Screen Fields
User Name: A unique name provided by the system administrator to be used to log into the system.
Password: A secret code provided by the system administrator to secure the identity of the user and is required to log into the system. When entering the password, each character is represented on the screen with an asterisk (*).
Important Notes:
* The user's account is locked in the following reasons:
· Exceeding the number of times allowed for re-entering the correct password.
· Exceeding the time limit during which the user hasn't used his account after his last session. This time duration is determined by the system administrator.
· System Administrator locks this account.
* Two users can't login with the same “username”, so if the “username” is already logged in, and another user uses the same “username” on login screen the system will appear message to tell the second user “This user is already logged on” trying again will restart the first user session, and second user login.
* Some customer sea above screen but there is no user login, this case appear when user kill the session by using instead of logout the session. The correct close for the system by using the following option:
2. Main Page
Main Page: is home page for E-trade Web site, this Page including all areas that broker needed in same time to trading. And above picture show in overall the main page and coming we will explain every one in details.
2.1 Main Menu
The main menu contains the following sub menus that are indicate to a category of function:
Description / NameCustomizes market watch screen, in addition to displaying market ticker, market news and market depth. / Market Watch
Displays client's balance information, Statement of Account and Portfolio. / Financial Information
Displays daily trades executed for a specific security. / Statistics
Displays client's personal information and password change screens for login and confirmation. / Options
Displays graphic analysis of the company for one day or during a certain period determined by the customer. / Graphs
Displays company's information and contact information. / Help
Toggle to Arabic interface. / عربي
Log off the session. / Log Out
2.1.1 Market Watch:
This Menu includes the following options that are responsible for their specific actions:
Description / NameDisplays and customizing the market watch screen. / My Market watch
Displays the market ticker screen in a pop up window. / Ticker
Displays the market depth screen in a pop up window. / Market Depth
Displays the market news screen in a pop up window. / Market News
· My Market Watch:
This screen displays the detailed live quotes for the securities in the market including (bid size and price, offer size and price, open price, minimum and maximum price... etc) More Details on Page 18.
· Ticker:
This screen displays market quotes and other market information. The shown numbers represent the current securities price (the last price), the percentage represents the current percentage change with regard to the previous day closing price, and the letters represent the security symbol.
· Market Depth:
This screen displays the best 5 Bid and Offer orders for a specific security.
· Market News:
This screen displays the latest news headlines of the market securities.
2.1.2 Financial Information:
· Balance Information
This screen displays the details of the balance of information, helps the customer realize his balance, the balance available for Trading, and provides the client with more information in the case of using margin account.
Description / NameSelect a stock market. / Market
Select account type and enter account number on beside field. / Account
Click to display the balance information for selected account. / Refresh
Balance of the customer. / Balance
The absolute value of the customer balance when he is debt. / Debit Balance
Margin value divided by the market value. / Margin Percent
The value of the customer's share in the funded shares. / Margin Value
The market value of the marginal shares. / Market Value
The amount that can be purchase stock (available fund balance plus the value of facilities provided and available). / Purchase Power
The value of the shares needed to be sold in order to recover. / Selling
The amount the customer can withdraw while maintaining a safe margin. / Withdrawal Power
Description / Name
The amount needed to be deposited in order to recover. / Deposit
The upper limit allowed for the total amount of funding at the margin given by the financial intermediary for all clients. / Customer Line
· Statement of account
This screen displays a record of transactions and their effect on account balances over a specified period of time.
· Portfolio
This Screen displays details of shares owned by the customer in terms of the symbol of the company, the number of shares, the number of free shares, the average price per share, total cost, break event point and the profit loss.
2.1.3 Statistics:
· Today Trades
This screen displays the Today Trades screen in a popup window. The user can choose to display the first or last (25, 50,100, all) or a particular number of trades executed on a specific security.
Description / NameSelect a stock market. / Market
Select a security symbol. / Symbol
Choose to display first or last orders for the specified security during that day's market session. / Display
Click this button is needed for displaying the trades. / Refresh
The price at which the trade was made / Price
Number of shares for each executed trade. / Volume
Value of executed trade. / Value
Accumulated total shares for all executed trades on this symbol. / Total Volume
Time at which the trade was executed. / Time
2.1.4 Options:
This Screen displays the personal information related to the user in addition to displaying password change screens for login and confirmation in a popup window.
· Personal Information:
This screen displays the client's personal information.
Important Note: For any modification on the personal information, the user should contact the brokerage company.
· Change Password:
This option allows the user to enter a new password. This includes
Use this screen to change the password assigned when entering Buy order, Sell order, Change order, or Cancel order.
Use this screen to change the password used in the login screen
2.1.5 Graphs:
Provides the capability of viewing a graphical diagram of the company with specific analytical tools to help the client in trading.
Note: The user can review the chart for a particular company within 2 different dates. It also provides more than a form for the chart (Candlestick chart, Bar chart, HLC bar chart, and Line chart)
2.1.6 Help:
This button displays the company contact information and the feedback forms in a popup window.
· About us:
- This displays the company contact information.
· Feed Back:
Displays the feedback form in which the client can send comments and complaints to the system administrator.
It displays all previous feedbacks posted by the client if available.
2.2 General Information
This box displays information related to the client. Screen Fields:
· Name: Full name of the client.
· Sub Accounts : is distinguish feature on Etrade, when click on Icon the customer will transfer to his Sub accounts menu to select the customer that need to work on his account then click Switch :
· Available Balance: The default balance displayed is the Normal account balance. The drop down menu includes the Margin option which when chosen and clicked on the Refresh button displays the Margin available balance.
· Status: The Open/Close status of Market during the client's session.
· Index: Current Market Index.
· Change: Change from previous index.
· %: Percent change from previous index.
· Volume: Traded shares for today.
· Market Info: Statistics about the market.
2.3 My Market Watch
This screen displays the detailed live quotes for the securities in the market including (bid size and price, offer size and price, open price, minimum and maximum price... etc).
Note: The securities that a client can add in a single market watch screen is 15 records. If the user adds more, the added securities will be displayed on a different screen as page two.
Screen Options
· Highlight Security: Gives the user the ability to highlight one security at a time.
· : To add a new security symbol to the market watch.
· : To remove an existing security symbol from the market watch.
· : To move to the page that contains selected security symbol.
· : Used for the customization of the market watch as well as companies that will appear and the order of the companies ascending or descending, or customized by the customer.
Market Watch Screen Fields
Displays security symbol. / Symbol
Displays security Name. / Name
Displays the Last price of executed shares at the Closed of the previous session. / Close
Displays the first price of executed shares at the opening of the session. / Open Price
Displays number of requested shares. / Bid Size
Displays the best bid price for a single share. / Bid Price
Displays the total number of offered shares at the best offer since available. / Offer Size
Displays price of the single share. / Offer Price
Displays the highest traded price for a share during the session. / High
Displays the lowest traded price for a share during the session. / Low
Displays last executed price for a share. / Last Price
Displays lowest price a share is allowed to reach during the session. / Min
Displays highest price a share is allowed to reach during the session. / Max
Displays the average traded price of a share. / Average
Displays price change with respect to the closing price of the previous session. / Net Change
Displays percentage price change with respect to the closing price of the previous session. / %
Displays the Total shares traded for that security in this Session. / Total Volume
Displays the total value of all traded shares for that security. / Total Value
Market Name / Market
- Graphs: Provide the possibility of viewing the diagram of the company with specific analytical tools to help the client in trading.
Note: The user can review the chart of a particular company within 2 different dates. It also provides several bar styles for the chart (Candlestick chart, Bar chart, HLC bar chart, and Line chart)
2.4.1 Buy Order
This screen is used to enter Buy order. It can be displayed either by clicking the BUY button or by clicking on a security symbol in the market watch screen.
Screen Fields
Description / NameToggles between BUY and SELL screens. / BUY / SELL
Select stock market. / Market
Select security symbol. / Symbol
Select type of account (margin or normal). / Account
Chooses number of shares to buy. / Quantity
Displays the price range between limit up and limit down values. / Price Range
Includes:
· Limit: price chosen by user.
· MKT: price decided by market. / Price
Chooses minimum number of shares to be executed. / Min fill
Chooses number of shares to be displayed in the market watch. / Max Disc.
Chooses time period for the validity of the Buy order. / Good Till
Includes: (All or None): Processing the buy order as a whole or not processing it at all. / Actions
Click this button is needed to show a report with the entered order information, confirming with the user before sending the order to the market / Confirm
Choose the amount of money to use to buy shares depending on share price. You can click “use balance” to use all money available / Amount to use
Confirmation Message:
This message appears on a popup window after clicking the Confirm button to allow the user to review the order details before sending it to the market. To send the order, the user must enter the confirmation password then click the Send button. To return back to the main screen without sending the order, the user must click the Cancel button.
Description / NameSelected stock market. / Market
Selected security symbol. / Symbol
Selected type of account (margin or normal). / Account
Chosen number of shares to buy. / Quantity
Chosen price. / Price
Total order commission. / T. Comm.
Total order price (including the commission). / T. Price
Chosen time period for the order. / Good Till
Chosen minimum number of shares to be executed. / Min Fill
Number of shares to be displayed in the market watch. / Max Disc
Specified action. / Action
Confirmation password to be entered by the client for the order to be sent to the market. / Password
Click on this button sends the order to market. / Send
Click on this button takes the user back to the main screen without sending the order. / Cancel
Error Messages: