The Exness Terminal is a trading terminal available exclusively to Exness traders using MT5 trading accounts (both real and demo). Exness Terminal is web-based, so no installation is necessary to trade with it, and it is custom-built by Exness engineers who continually update and improve it for users.
- How to open the Exness Terminal
- Exness Terminal features
How to open the Exness Terminal
- Register an account on Exness using a valid email address if you don’t have an account yet..
- Log in to your Personal Area.
- Click Trade on any MT5 account, then select Exness Terminal. For trading accounts shown in grid format, click the 3 dots icon then Trade, and finally select Exness Terminal.
- A new tab will open, logging you into Exness Terminal.
Exness Terminal Features
Exness Terminal presents many trading functions and tools to enhance your trading experience. Let’s explore these below:
Portfolio
The portfolio area is located below the charts area and tracks all open, pending, and closed orders made with your trading account. Orders listed include information about its type, volume, open price, current price, take profit, stop loss, open time, swap, and profit and loss.
Click the pencil icon to edit an order in the portfolio area, or click the x icon to close an order.
The mobile browser version of the portfolio area groups orders by instrument, with additional functionality for closing and modifying active and pending orders.
You can track your trading history in batches of 30 days by clicking on the Show previous 30 days button. To see older batches of trading history, simply click the button multiple times until you have reached the desired trading period.
Watchlist
The watchlist hosts lists of trading instruments, at their current prices and movement. Clicking on any trading instrument opens its chart based on the last used time frame.
Watchlist information
The Watchlist is displayed on the left side of the terminal. To minimize the watchlist, click on the arrows icon on the top of the watchlist. To expand it, click on the Show Instruments arrow on the left side border of the terminal.
The information shown for each instrument can be customized by clicking the vertical dots menu and toggling off or on the various items shown in columns. Clicking the directional in the Signal column will open a pop-up window of an article based on the intraday shown.
How to find trading instruments in the watchlist
- Enter a term in the search bar; for example: entering “USD” will show trading instruments with USD.
- Select a preset category or instrument group from the dropdown menu; preset categories include Popular and Top Movers.
- Click the star icon for any trading instrument to add it to the Favorites category. To remove an instrument, click the star icon again.
Tile mode
The watchlist is shown in the list view by default, which can be changed to tile view by clicking the tile icon above. You may need to enable one-click trading when changing over. Tile view presents trading functions for each displayed trading instrument, while search function and categories are still available above.
HMR and market closed indication
The watchlist displays a three-red-lines symbol beside instruments affected by the high margin requirements (HMR) period. Hovering the mouse over this symbol displays the duration of this HMR period.
Important: The HMR period can be extended based on risk management decisions depending on each news’ impact. For full details regarding the affected instrument, margin requirements and HMR duration, please check your trading platform MailBox, where you will find an email sent to you with the list of affected instruments.
When the market is closed for a particular instrument, you will be able to see a grey prohibited symbol beside it on the watchlist. Hovering the mouse over this symbol will display the time of the market opening.
Note: If HMR is enabled and the market is closed too, only the market closed symbol will be displayed next to the instrument.
Instrument tabs
The instrument tabs are trading instrument charts that can be customized, including the ability to add indicators with TradingView, save chart layouts, and much more.
To open a new chart
- Click on the + icon.
- Use the search bar or category dropdown to find a trading instrument, then click on it.
- Clicking on a trading instrument in the watchlist also opens its chart.
To reorder instrument tabs
With a few chart tabs open, simply click and drag tabs in whatever order preferred.
To close a chart
Simply hover over an instrument tab and click on the X icon that appears in the top-left corner of the tab.
To customize a chart
The settings below the instrument tabs give you the option to change the time frame and chart type, as well as the ability to save a template and undo/redo a style change.
Adding indicators
Click on Indicators in the chart window and select one from approximately 100 indicators available. You can add multiple indicators to one chart, and by clicking on the ellipsis (... icon) next to the indicator, you can customize or remove them.
To use drawing tools
Over 50 drawing tools are available, shown as icons on the left-hand bar; double-click any icon to expand its selection. Right-click on any active drawing tool to customize it.
To clear a chart of all drawing actions, click on the bin icon at the bottom of the drawing tools bar.
To replay the history
The replay function allows you to see chart movement from a specific point in time to the current time. To replay a chart, click on the rewind button to activate the replay toolbar then click on a specific time in the chart to jump to it. The replay toolbar includes these functions:
- Jump to: to select a start point on the chart
- Play: to start replaying history
- Pause: to pause the replay
- Forward: moves time forward by a frame
- To real-time: stops the replay and returns to current time
- Exit: closes the replay toolbar and returns to current time
Trading functions
Located in the top-right area allows for management of your trading accounts and orders.
Trading account manager
Clicking the trading account dropdown displays information about your trading account including:
- Balance
- Equity
- Margin
- Free Margin
- Margin Level
This information is shown in real-time, including your leverage setting. You can deposit, withdraw and view your transaction history from here as well.
Switch between trading accounts by clicking Manage Accounts from the bottom of this dropdown menu.
Making a deposit
Click the Deposit button to be taken back to your Personal Area to begin a deposit action from the payment systems selection screen.
Grid icon
Opening the grid icon menu will display links for the following Exness products:
- Personal Area
- Exness Terminal
- Public Website
- Partnership
- Exness Investor
When you click any of the options displayed, you will be redirected to the appropriate website.
Note: The Exness Investor open only appears after activating a fund link provided by a Portfolio Manager.
To open a market or pending order
There are multiple ways you can open Market or Pending orders. Here are a few ways to open orders:
Order Tab
You can open a Market or Pending order by selecting the Order tab to the right of the terminal. Follow these simple steps.
- You will see the Buy and Sell icons with the respective prices. Click on the Buy or Sell icons to open orders.
- When you click the icon, a list of trading functions is shown. To open a Pending order, enable the Pending function.You can do the same for Stop Loss and Take Profit.
Note: Pending orders can be canceled if not enough margin is available to open the order when its price requirements are met; a notification is sent to your device if this occurs.
- Set your order volume by lots, units, and currency for both market and pending orders.
One-Click Trading mode
Another way to open an order is by using One-Click Trading. It allows you to open and close trades instantly. It provides a tile list of all the instruments you prefer to trade. To enable One-Click Trading mode, follow the steps below:
- Select the tile icon on the left side of the terminal.
- A popup will display a disclaimer for the One-Click Trading mode. If you agree, click Yes, proceed.
- Once enabled, you will see a tile list of instruments on the left. If no instruments are present, choose your preferred instruments to trade.
- To open a market order with One-Click Trading mode, key in the trading volume and click on the Buy or Sell icons.
Use the Limit Order field for pending orders. You can set the limit order based on price, percent, or spread.
To revert to the previous layout, click on the list view icon at the top of the list.
To modify a market or pending order
Open orders are displayed on the instrument chart and the portfolio tab.
From the portfolio area below the chart, click on the pencil icon of an order to open a pop-up settings window. Orders can be modified by asset price, take profit, and stop loss which makes setting an auto close for the order possible.
For mobile devices, the portfolio area presents instruments as cards; tap on the instrument’s card and its settings will appear.
To partially close an order
To partially close an open order, click on the pencil icon of an order in the portfolio area then open the Partial Close tab. Set a valid volume to close, then click Close order.
For mobile devices, the portfolio area presents instruments as cards; tap on the instrument’s card and its settings will appear.
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To close an order
- Close an order from that trading instrument’s chart by clicking the x icon for the order, or from the portfolio tab with the x icon.
- To close all active orders for a particular instrument, click on the Close All Positions button located at the top-right of the chart (next to the Profit displayed).
- Close all open positions for every traded instrument by clicking on the Close All button at the bottom-right of the portfolio area.
For mobile devices, the portfolio area presents instruments as cards; tap the x icon on the instrument’s card or grouping of cards to close the order or all orders of that instrument respectively.
To set an auto close parameter for an order
Autoclose allows the setting of parameters for both market and pending orders to be closed automatically; this can be toggled on or off and can be defined by Take Profit and Stop Loss for the instrument’s price, in pips, in money (currency), or by a percentage amount.
Trading Sentiment
Trading sentiment tracks the movement of the selected trading instrument over the last hour; shown as a bar with blue representing buy and red representing sell sentiment respectively. This data is fully synchronized between web and mobile versions of the Exness Terminal.
Notifications
To stay updated with the latest on certain events on your trades, you can turn on push notifications in either your Exness Terminal or the Exness Trade App.
The Exness Terminal provides timely notifications such as:
- Margin call
- Order closed because of Take Profit/Stop Loss
- Pending order open
- Change in balance (Deposits and Withdrawals)
- Price jumps or drops
- Price reached a minimum or maximum
- Forex news and financial events
- Trade analyst news
- Change in document status
- Price alerts
If you do not see the pop-up to turn on notifications on your browser. Here’s an alternative to turn on notifications:
- Click on the lock icon on the search bar in your browser.
- Click on Site settings.
- Under Notifications, select Allow from the dropdown menu.
With full control of your trading account, 100 indicators, and 50 drawing tools, including every instrument available to trade with Exness, the Exness Terminal is a robust browser-based trading solution available exclusively to Exness traders.
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