Getting
Started>Overview (back
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This "Getting Started"
section will quick start you to automatic trading from email.
TradeItself 2006 collects
email from a specified email account every few seconds.
Each email collected is searched for a trading
instruction and execution details. If these are
correctly found, TradeItself will execute the found
instruction, log the actions
taken and then delete the email.
You choose a set of rules
(called a ruleset) which specifies how trading instructions
(eg. "Buy At Market", "Delete Stop" etc.) and associated information (e.g.
currency pair, price, stop loss and limit) are found
in an email. The
rules also contain execution details which define
your FXCM account details and also the amount you
would like to trade. To ease setup,
TradeItself allows the
user to specify a
default account and
default amount for all trading.
Two rulesets are included in the standard installation of
TradeItself, but you may be able to download a "TradeItself compatible" ruleset
from your own signal provider. Alternatively you may create your own set of
rules (called a ruleset), but this is an
advanced option. If you do decide to create your own
rules, TradeItself 2006 has been
designed to make configuring rules as easy as possible by providing
a
rule wizard screen.
Getting
Started>Setting Up Email
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the link in the top left hand corner called "1. Click
Here To Setup Email". This will take you to the email setup screen as shown
below. Please read the notes and then enter your email details. Don't forget to
test your email connection by pressing the "Test Email Connection" button.
Please do not confuse your
email address with your POP3 username as they are
different.
What is POP3? To send e-mail to and from
different kinds of e-mail servers, there is an agreed-upon format for sending
and receiving the data. This format is called the protocol, and there are a few
types. TradeItself currently only supports POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3). Your
dedicated email account MUST use the protocol POP3. If your email account is
not POP3 then email collection from TradeItself
will not work. Please note that
"free" web mail is often not POP3.
Where do I get a POP3 email account? There are
many providers on the internet for POP3 email accounts, please see
Do you
recommend a POP3 email account provider? in the FAQs.
What is the Host Name? A POP3 email account will
always have an email host or email server associated with it. The host name or
server name must be given to you when you buy your dedicated email account.
The email server is like a post office. When an email is sent, the e-mail
message is not sent directly to your recipient's mailbox. It has to go through
a couple of processing stations, known as e-mail servers. Think of these
servers as post offices. When you put a letter in a mailbox, it gets sent to
your post office, then to your recipient's post office, and then to his house.
When an e-mail message is sent, the e-mail goes to your Internet Service
Provider's (ISP) mail server, then to your recipient's ISP
mail server, and then to
his Inbox. Without the correct host name your
POP3 email account will not work.
Please Only Use This Email Account For TradeItself:
Whenever automatic email collection is enabled, TradeItself will use these
email settings to go and collect all emails in your dedicated email account.
TradeItself will then immediately delete them all - even if they
are valid trading emails. This is a safety precaution to prevent a
potential series of immediate and costly "buys" and "sells" triggered by old
trading emails stored up in your dedicated email account. For this reason, it is
recommended that a dedicated email account
is used just for automatic trading because all unrelated emails are deleted. Any valid
trading emails arriving
subsequent to the initial deletion or "emptying of" the email account are
then traded and deleted. Any non-trading emails arriving subsequent to the initial
deletion or "emptying of" the email account are just deleted. Individual
signal emails will never be processed more than once.
All Emails Are Logged:
Note that all emails (including deleted emails) have
their contents logged in the TradeItself log. This is
useful as you can always check the log to see precisely
every email collected and processed by TradeItself.
Getting Started>Setting Up The Default Account
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the link in the top left hand corner called "2. Click
Here To Enter Account Details". This will take you to the account setup screen
as shown below. Please read the notes and then enter your account details.
Don't forget to check your account login by pressing the "Test Account Login"
button. Note that this test does not verify that the account number is correct.
Encrypted
Storage: Note that your account
details are stored in the TradeItself settings file with the password encrypted
for security reasons.
The Default Account:
The details you enter on this screen are referred to elsewhere in TradeItself
as the default account details. Note that it is possible to define alternative
logins and accounts within the definition of a
rule
but this is an advanced option that does not need to be considered if you only
trade one account.
IMPORTANT:
Running FXCM Trading Station At Same Time As TradeItself
2006:
If you enter "real" FXCM
account details (as opposed to demo) then FXCM will not
allow more than one login at the same time for security
reasons. This means that you cannot trade with
TradeItself 2006 and view your trades in FXCM
trading station at the same time. To resolve this issue
you must contact FXCM directly by email at
admin@fxcm.com and
ask them to enable your "real" account for
multi-session access for use with TradeItself. Once your account is enabled for multi-session access,
you will be able to run TradeItself 2006 at the same
time as the FXCM trading station. (see
FAQs for further details)
Account Numbers
For Demo Accounts:
FXCM do not issue account numbers with demo accounts.
Please click
here for details on how to obtain your demo account
number.
"No Dealing Desk"
and "Fixed Spread" Accounts:
Currently FXCM offer two types of account "No Dealing
Desk" and "Fixed Spread". The features and differences
between the two are explained on
FXCM's
website. TradeItself 2006 supports both these types
of accounts since version 2.1.6. Furthermore TradeItself 2006 is now
designed to work with accounts that have hedging
capabilities either enabled or disabled. TradeItself
2006 only supports "Fixed Spread" accounts before
version 2.1.6. Click "Help" menu option and then "About"
menu option to see a box which displays your current
version of TradeItself 2006.
Note that TradeItself does
not provide the facility to look for account details in emails.
Getting Started>Setting Up The Default Amount To Be Traded
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the link in the top left hand corner called "3. Click
Here To Enter How Many Lots To Trade". This will take you to the amount setup
screen as shown below. Please read the notes and then enter how many lots you
would like to trade.
The Default Amount:
The amount you enter on this screen is referred to elsewhere in TradeItself as
the default amount. Note that it is possible to define alternative amounts to
be traded within the definition of a
rule.
Note that TradeItself does
not provide the facility to look for amount in emails.
Lots:
The number of lots you enter on this screen corresponds
to the type of account you are trading. If you are
trading a "mini" account, then you are specifying, on
this screen, how many "mini" lot(s) you will trade. If
you are trading a "standard" account then then you are
specifying, on this screen, how many "standard" lot(s)
you will trade.
Getting Started>Choosing A Ruleset For Trading
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the link in the top left hand corner called "4. Click
Here Select Trading Rules". This will take you to the ruleset selection screen
as shown below. Please carefully read the notes and then select the ruleset you
would like to trade. Only one ruleset can be selected for automatic trading at
a time.
Your chosen ruleset will
tell TradeItself what to look for in an email.
Rules search emails! A ruleset is a collection of
rules where each rule defines exactly one
trading instruction
(eg. "Buy At Market", "Delete Stop" etc.) and how
this trading instruction and associated information
(e.g. currency pair, price, stop loss and limit) are
found in an email. Is this information in the email
subject? Is this information in the email body? What
email text represents the trading instruction? etc.
A rule also contains
execution details
which define your FXCM account details and also the
amount you would like to trade.
To ease setup,
TradeItself allows the user to specify a
default account and a
default amount for automatic trading.
These default settings can be set to override the
specific accounts and amounts defined in the rules.
TradeItself checks each rule in turn when reading an email and if
a trading instruction and a currency is successfully found in the email then
TradeItself will attempt to execute that trading instruction for that currency.
Note that if the rule additionally specifies that price, stop or limit are to
be read from the email, then these must be successfully found and read in the
email for the trading instruction to be executed.
Once a trading instruction
and a currency have been successfully found in an email then no further rules
are used to search that email and the email is logged and deleted.
Note also that each rule defines the account(s) and the
amount (if relevant) to be traded or whether the default
account and default amount are to be used.
Important:
You
must check
and be satisfied that the rules you select are current, correct and consistent with how you want to trade.
To do this you must carefully read and examine the
details of the ruleset shown on the summary screen
described below.
Summary Button: The "Summary" button allows you to see a
detailed summary of how TradeItself 2006 will trade when using the selected
ruleset.
Import
Button: This screen also allows
for importing a file containing rulesets. Your FOREX signal provider may
provide you with a "TradeItself compatible" rules file for you to import and
select.
Export Button:
The export button saves all your ruleset details to
file. Note that sensitive account information is not
exported.
Pressing the summary button displays
a
detailed summary of the currently selected ruleset. Details can be expanded or
collapsed for ease of viewing. The
"Prosignal" ruleset summary is displayed below:
Getting Started>Enabling Automatic Email Collection And Trading
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the link in the top left hand corner called "5. Click
Here To Start Automatic Email Collection And Trading". This
will start automatic collection of emails and trading!
When automatically trading, you are restricted from closing TradeItself and
also from navigating to any other TradeItself screens.
To stop collecting emails and automatic trading click
the "5. Click Here To Stop Trading" link. See picture below.
Note that every time you start automatic trading,
TradeItself will immediately delete all emails in your email account.
This is a safety precaution to prevent a potential series of immediate
and costly "buys" and "sells" triggered by old signal emails stored up in your
dedicated email account.
Log File: The trading log displays a record of
all relevant actions taken by TradeItself. This log is designed to be read
by the user and will help you understand the sequence of events TradeItself
takes when trading and processing emails. Carefully read through the log to
diagnose what has happened. The log can be copied to another word processor
programme by clicking "Copy Log To Clipboard". The log can also be deleted by
clicking the "Clear" link. The "Refresh" link refreshes the display from the
log file.
Manual Email Collection: When automatic email
collection and trading is enabled it is possible to force TradeItself to do an
immediate email collection instead of waiting for the 30 seconds or so for the
next collection. This is done by clicking the link called "Click Here To Check
Now For Signal Emails".
What's New In
TradeItself 2006 (back to
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For those users who have
been using TradeItself version 1.x this section gives a brief overview of the
new features in TradeItself 2006.
New Features In
TradeItself 2006 Include:
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No requirement for broker trading station to be
running. All that needs to be running on
your computer is TradeItself together with a live
internet connection.
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Ability to trade multiple accounts and logins
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Over 20 trading
instructions now available
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Entry orders and market orders
can be configured
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Stop loss, limit and price can be read from email for
both market orders and entry orders
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Intelligent stop and limit calculation at a defined
pip offset
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Market entry at a price within a defined acceptable pip
range from price found in email
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Extensive programmable
text searching of emails
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Rule wizard screen for easy definition of rules
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Unlimited number of rules per ruleset
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Import/Export facility for rules (signal providers can
provide a "rules" download file
online to ease TradeItself setup for clients)
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Email
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POP3 port can be configured
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SSL
(Secure Socket Layer) for POP3 now
available
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Comprehensive logging
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All emails are logged (including deleted emails) with
both subject and body recorded for diagnosis.
Automatic Trading Process Defined>Trading
The Selected Ruleset
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This section describes the
exact process that TradeItself takes in examining
collected emails using the selected
ruleset. Remember that rules search
emails!
Your chosen ruleset will
tell TradeItself what to look for in an email. Rules
search emails! A ruleset is a collection of rules
where each rule defines exactly one trading
instruction (eg. "Buy At Market", "Delete Stop"
etc.) and how this trading instruction and
associated information (e.g. currency pair, price,
stop loss and limit) are found in an email. A rule
also contains execution details which define your
FXCM account(s) and also the amount you would like
to trade. A ruleset can have as many rules as
required by the user.
Each email collected is
examined using each rule in the ruleset
in strict order. The top rule in the
ruleset is used first to examine the email, followed by the second rule in the
ruleset and so on. If after examination by a particular rule, a
trading
instruction and a currency is found in the email then no more rules are
used to examine this email. This rule becomes the succeeding rule
for this email. No
further rules will be used to examine this email.
Note that only one currency is allowed to be found
per email. Note also that once a trading instruction
and currency are found in an email then TradeItself will attempt to
extract
other associated trading information,
if required by the rule, from the email e.g. price,
stop loss or limit information. If all
information is extracted successful up to this point
then TradeItself will attempt to
execute the trading instruction using all the
associated information if required, and the
execution details (account and amount) defined in the rule. If the
associated information is not extracted successfully from
the email then execution of the trading instruction
is aborted. Once a succeeding rule is found, processing of this email stops at this
rule and the email is logged and deleted,
even if the trading instruction is aborted. If no succeeding rules are found in
the ruleset, then no action is taken by TradeItself
for this email and the email is logged and
deleted. For further clarification, this
detailed description is represented in the
flow chart
below.
It is clear from the above
process that the order of rules is very important. The order of a rule in a
ruleset is referred to elsewhere in TradeItself as the rule priority. Once a
ruleset is defined, it is easy to change the priority of
a rule either up or
down.
To help with the
comprehension of a complex ruleset, TradeItself offers a summary facility which
provides a "drill down" view of a ruleset and its contained rules, together
with the detailed information associated with each rule. Press the "summary"
button found on the ruleset screens to display this detailed summary.
Use the test screen found
in the advanced section to help diagnose new rulesets. In this test screen it
is easy to see how a ruleset will react to different email subject and body
texts.
Read the TradeItself log as
this will always provide a detailed "rule-by-rule"
breakdown of the processing of an email against a ruleset.
Please read the next
section on multiple trades in one email.
Automatic Trading Process Defined>Flow Chart
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Automatic Trading Process Defined>Multiple Trades In One Email
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The previous section detailed the exact process taken by
TradeItself when examining an email using the selected ruleset. There is one
exception to the above processing and this is when a ruleset is marked to check
emails for multiple trades. In this case the
process is identical to the process described above
except that each line in the email body is
treated as though it was a complete email.
Note that deletion of the
email only occurs once all the lines have been read and
processed.
When a ruleset is marked to check emails for multiple
trades then each individual line in the body of an email is examined by
each rule in strict order.
If after examination by a particular rule, a
trading
instruction and a currency is found in the email
line then no more rules are
used to examine this email line. This rule becomes the succeeding rule
for this email line. No
further rules will be used to examine this email
line.
Note that only one currency is allowed to be found
per email line. Note also that once a trading instruction
and currency are found in an email line then TradeItself will attempt to
extract other associated trading information,
if required by the rule, from the email line e.g. price,
stop loss or limit information. If all
information is extracted successful up to this point
then TradeItself will attempt to
execute the trading instruction using all the
associated information if required, and the
execution details (account and amount) defined in the rule. If the
associated information is not extracted successfully from
the email line then execution of the trading instruction
is aborted. Once a succeeding rule is found, processing of this email
line stops at this rule, even if the trading
instruction is aborted. If no succeeding rules are found in
the ruleset, then no action is taken by TradeItself
for this email line.
Note that any text in the
subject of emails is completely ignored by a ruleset
marked to check emails for multiple trades. only text in the body of the email
is relevant.
Working With Rulesets
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TradeItself 2006 allows
the user to fully define multiple rulesets using the screens described below.
Essentially a ruleset is named and then has rules added
to it.
TradeItself stores all
rulesets in a file called "EmailRules.xml". This file is found in the
same directory where TradeItself 2006 is installed. If you create a number of
rulesets it is very wise to backup this file to a safe place.
A ruleset is a
customisable collection of rules used by TradeItself to examine emails for
trading instructions (eg. "Buy At
Market", "Delete Stop" etc.). See the
"automatic trading process" section for precise
details on what a ruleset is. TradeItself can store many rulesets. Rulesets can be
configured from scratch by the user or they can be imported from an external
file. Being able to import rules is especially useful if your signal provider
provides a TradeItself compatible rules file - this can be downloaded to your
computer and the file imported into TradeItself saving you time in setup.
TradeItself rule files have the file extension ".xml". For the programmers out
there, TradeItself stores all rules and rulesets in xml.
File may be imported using the "import" button seen
in the picture below.
Even though
TradeItself can store many rulesets, only one ruleset can ever be selected for
automatic trading at any one time. Selection of the trading ruleset is done on the
Choosing a Ruleset For Trading screen.
Manipulation of rulesets
(editing, adding and deleting) is done on the screen described below.
Ruleset Names:
Each ruleset must have a unique name and each rule in a ruleset must have a
unique name in that particular ruleset. TradeItself will warn you if duplicates
occur.
The Rulesets Screen:
This screen is found by pressing the "Advanced" button on the TradeItself front
screen. Then click the link "Click Here To Add, Remove Or Modify Rulesets".
This will display the rulesets screen seen below:
All rulesets stored by
TradeItself 2006 in the "EmailRules.xml" file are displayed in the list on the
left hand side. Each ruleset can be expanded to display a list of the rules it
contains. Below the "Market Order Tests" ruleset is displaying its 12 rules.
This screen provides for the manipulation of rulesets including add, edit,
delete, copy, import, export and a summary screen.
Editing Rulesets: In order to edit the rules in a
ruleset, select your ruleset and click edit, or just double-click the ruleset.
This will take you to the ruleset screen which allows the manipulation of
individual rules. The following section describes the ruleset screen.
Please note
that the "Summary"
button is a very useful facility for displaying a detailed summary of a
ruleset.
Export button:
This button will export all rulesets to an external file of your choosing. This
file can be "imported" by other TradeItself users.
Working
With Rulesets>Testing Rulesets
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TradeItself provides a
test screen for experimenting with rulesets to see whether they behave as
predicted when specific email texts arrive. This test screen gives the user the
option to enter email subject and body text and then run a ruleset against
these email texts. The results are displayed in a results box in the bottom
right hand corner of the screen. Please read the notes at the top of this
screen.
Rulesets can be modified
directly from this screen using the buttons to the left of the ruleset
selection box. Please note the summary button in the bottom left hand corner of
the screen which is very useful for seeing an overall view of your selected
ruleset. Furthermore, your email texts are saved every time you press the
"Test" button. This allows you to skip back to an earlier email text and
retest.
No trading instruction is
ever executed when using this test screen.
This screen is for test purposes
only.
Please note that for
absolute consistency, the software used here to test your rulesets against
emails is the same software used when
automatic trading.
The Testing Rulesets
screen is found by pressing the "Advanced" button on the TradeItself front
screen. Then click the link "Click Here To Test Rulesets". This will display
the settings screen seen below:
Working With
Rules>Overview (back
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A ruleset is a
collection of rules. Each rule has a unique name in a ruleset and defines
exactly one trading instruction, and how
this trading instruction and associated information
(e.g. currency pair, price, stop loss and limit) are
found in an email. A rule also contains execution
details which define your FXCM account details and
also the amount you would like to trade. The following
25 trading instructions are
available to rules in TradeItself 2006.
Where the trading action taken by each trading
instruction is not obvious from its name, there are
some detailed notes just below.
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Buy At Market
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Sell At Market
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Reverse Open Position(s)
- close
all open positions and buy or sell in
the opposite direction of the current
open position. eg. If your total
position on EUR/USD for an account is 5
lots bought, then reverse open
position(s) will result with you having
a total position of 5 lots sold on EUR/USD.
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Close Open Position(s) And Buy At Market
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Close Open Position(s) And Sell At Market
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Close Open Position(s)
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Close Open
Buy Position(s)
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Close Open
Sell Position(s)
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Close Open
Buy Position(s)
And Sell At Market
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Close Open
Sell Position(s)
And Buy At Market
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Change Stop On Open Position(s)
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Change Limit On Open Position(s)
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Change Stop And Limit On Open Position(s)
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Delete Stop On Open Position(s)
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Delete Limit On Open Position(s)
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Delete Stop And Limit On Open Position(s)
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Buy Entry Order
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Sell Entry Order
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Delete Entry Order(s)
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Change Stop On Entry Order(s)
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Change Limit On Entry Order(s)
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Change Stop And Limit On Entry Order(s)
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Delete Stop On Entry Order(s)
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Delete Limit On Entry Order(s)
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Delete Stop And Limit On Entry Order(s)
Each rule may contain
information associated with the trading instruction including price, stop loss,
limit, amount, account and currency details. The ruleset screen described below
allows the user to create new rules, configure existing rules, delete rules,
copy rules and change the order of the rules in the ruleset.
The Ruleset Screen:
This screen is found by pressing the "advanced" button on the TradeItself front
screen. Then click the link "Click Here To Add, Remove Or Modify Rulesets".
This will display the rulesets screen. Double-click your selected ruleset to
display the ruleset screen below: Individual rules in a ruleset are manipulated
on this screen, including new, edit, delete, copy. move up in priority, move
down in priority, enable and disable. Furthermore the ruleset name may be
changed and the ruleset may be marked for emails to be checked for multiple
trades.
Enabling/Disabling Rules:
If this ruleset is selected for automatic trading then any disabled rule in
this ruleset will not be included in the processing of emails - it is rendered
ineffective. The ability to disable and enable rules can be useful during the
testing and design of your own rulesets.
Rule Priority:
The order that rules appear in the list is the order in which they will be
processed. If you want a rule to be processed before another rule then this
rule must be higher. Use the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons to change the
processing order of rules in a ruleset. The order of a rule in the ruleset is
called the rule priority. The rule with priority 1 will be at the top of the
list of rules and will be processed first. The "Buy At Market" rule in the
above picture has the highest priority and will be processed first.
New Rules And Editing Rules:
Rules are configured using a rule wizard. The rule wizard is described below in
the next section.
Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Introduction
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The rule wizard screen
takes the user through the process of configuring a rule. Each section contains
detailed notes and a description of the options available. Your choice of trading
instruction for the rule will determine which options are relevant for the rule. For example
if you choose the "Close All Open Position(s)" trading instruction then the
price, stop loss and limit instructions are not relevant and will be disabled.
Note that cancelling the
wizard at any time will loose all changes. Only once the finish button is
pressed at the end of the wizard will all changes be saved.
The following sections
detail the specific screens in the rule wizard
Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Welcome Screen
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Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Rule Name Screen
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Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Trading Instruction Screen
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Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Amount Screen
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Lots:
The number of lots you enter on this screen corresponds
to the type of account you are trading. If you are
trading a "mini" account, then you are specifying, on
this screen, how many "mini" lot(s) you will trade. If
you are trading a "standard" account then then you are
specifying, on this screen, how many "standard" lot(s)
you will trade.
Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Price Screen
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Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Stop Loss Screen
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Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Limit Screen
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Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Currency Screen
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Clone Button: This is a very powerful feature
which will change all other rules in this ruleset to have the same currencies
you have defined here. Use with care!
From Button: This allows currencies to be copied
from or replaced by currencies defined in another rule. This is a time saving
feature and means that currencies only need to be entered once. By pressing the
"from" button seen in the above picture, the following screen appears which
facilitates this copy or replace feature:
All the currencies associated with all the rulesets and
rules stored in TradeItself are displayed in this box.
Copy Button: This will copy the selected
currencies to your rule.
Replace Button: This will replace the currencies
you already have in your rule with the selected currencies
Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Account Screen
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If you do not want to use the default account, you can
specify multiple login and account details here. If the rule is the succeeding
rule then TradeItself will execute the trading operation defined in this rule
on each of the accounts defined in this screen.
Clone Button: This is a very powerful feature
which will change all other rules in this ruleset to have the same accounts you
have defined here. Use with care!
From Button: This allows accounts to be copied
from or replaced by accounts defined in another rule. This is a time saving
feature and means that accounts only need to be entered once. By pressing the
"from" button seen in the above picture, the following screen appears which
facilitates this copy or replace feature:
All the accounts associated with all the rulesets and
rules stored in TradeItself are displayed in this box.
Copy Button: This will copy the selected accounts
to your rule.
Replace Button: This will replace the accounts
you already have in your rule with the selected accounts
Working With Rules>The Rule Wizard Screen>Finish Screen
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Advanced Performance Settings>General
Options>Automatic Login
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How To Find
This Page:
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the button in the top left hand corner called "Advanced".
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On the "Advanced"
page click "Click Here For Advanced Settings".
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On the Settings
page click the "General" button.
Description:
Automatic login is enabled by default and will
facilitate an automatic login to TradeItself 2006 every
time TradeItself 2006 is started. This automatic login
will only occur if the recent login has been successful.
If you would like to disable the automatic login for
security reasons on your computer then uncheck this
option.
Advanced Performance Settings>General
Options>Automatic Regular Restarting
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How To Find
This Page:
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the button in the top left hand corner called "Advanced".
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On the "Advanced"
page click "Click Here For Advanced Settings".
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On the Settings
page click the "General" button.
Description:
Automatic Regular Restarting is enabled by default and
facilitates a regular restart of TradeItself 2006 every
hour. The restart period can be customised within the
time range of 1 and 999 hour(s). It is highly
recommended to have this option enabled.
This feature allows for a
complete release and reset of valuable computer
resources (memory and threads) used by TradeItself 2006 on a regular basis and
therefore extends the time TradeItself 2006 can run
without a need to manually restart.
If you would like to
disable this feature on your computer then uncheck this
option.
Advanced Performance Settings>Email Options>Enable
POP3 Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
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How To Find
This Page:
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the button in the top left hand corner called "Advanced".
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On the "Advanced"
page click "Click Here For Advanced Settings".
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On the Settings
page click the "Email" button.
Description:
When connecting to certain
GMail POP3 accounts it may be necessary for TradeItself
to connect using a SSL (Secure Socket Layer).
Advanced Performance Settings>Email Options>Changing
POP3 Port Number
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How To Find
This Page:
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the button in the top left hand corner called "Advanced".
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On the "Advanced"
page click "Click Here For Advanced Settings".
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On the Settings
page click the "Email" button.
Description: The default POP3 port number is 110, but in unusual
circumstances where you may be working with your own internal mail server, you
may wish to change the POP3 port number which TradeItself uses to collect
email.
Advanced Performance Settings>FXCM Options>Disable
Regular Check For FXCM Updates
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How To Find
This Page:
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From the front screen in
TradeItself 2006 click the button in the top left hand corner called "Advanced".
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On the "Advanced"
page click "Click Here For Advanced Settings".
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On the Settings
page click the "FXCM" button.
Description: FXCM will from time to
time update their software which allows TradeItself to place and monitor
trades. When an update is required, access to FXCM is restricted until the
update is performed. To anticipate this, and also to prevent interruption to
automatic trading, TradeItself checks if an update is required
between every email
collection during automatic trading. If an FXCM update is required,
TradeItself will automatically perform this update (which involves a restart of
TradeItself) and continue with automatic trading.
So why give the option to
disable this useful feature? Well there is a time delay (of about 10 seconds)
involved in checking if an update is required every time emails are collected.
If you are keen to reduce the time taken for TradeItself to invoke your trading
instruction from the time that your email is collected then you may want to
disable this FXCM update check.
WARNING: By disabling this check,
it is possible that FXCM will update their software and restrict TradeItself
access to the trading desk, thus not placing your trading instruction.
Note 1. FXCM generally aim
to do all updates over weekends or during quiet market times.
Note 2. Every time
TradeItself starts an automatic FXCM update check is performed irrespective of
your setting here, so you are always as up to date as your most recent
TradeItself login.
Manual Trading
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TradeItself 2006 provides
a screen for placing trades manually. This is here to help you confirm that your
trading instructions are reaching your
FXCM account. The TradeItself log records all
trading actions taken on this screen. The log is displayed at the bottom of
this screen.
This screen is found by
pressing the "Advanced" button on the TradeItself front screen. Then click the
link
"Click Here To Trade By Manually Entering Your Required Values". This will take
you to the manual trading screen as shown below. Please read the notes
carefully on this page.
There are two sections to
this page: "Market Orders" and "Entry Orders". Click the respective links at
the top left hand corner of this screen, just below the "Back" button, to
change between "Market Orders" and "Entry Orders"
The Market Orders section
of this screen appears as seen below:
The Entry Orders section
of this screen appears as seen below:
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