I shall begin with an overview of the application’s home screen before we take a closer look at the various sections.
The Streamster trading platform is divided into 4 major sectors having adjustable borders that allow you to resize the boundaries to suit your needs (the straight red lines in the image below show these borders). If you place your mouse directly over these borders, the cursor changes to a cross and then you can click and drag at will.
Sector 1 contains two tabs called Portfolio and Alerts. Alerts tell you when announcements and other events that affect the market are scheduled to come up. Portfolio shows you the current status of your various accounts (live, demo/virtual etc). It also shows you how much profit or loss you are making when you have any open trades (also known as open positions).
Sector 2 contains two tabs, Forex rates and Fund Rates. We shall look only at the Forex Rates tab because this is all we need to worry about at this stage. The Forex Rates tab displays current data for each currency pair (or instrument) available for us to trade. Later on we shall take a look at what each column denotes and how we can add/remove currency pairs.
