Opening an Account

Terminal allows you to work with two types of accounts: demo accounts and real accounts. Demo accounts enable working under training conditions, without real money on them, but they allow the ability to practice and test trading strategies well. They possess all the same functionality as real accounts. The distinction between the two is that demo accounts can be opened without any investments, though one cannot count on any profit from them.

Opening of a Demo Account

A demo account can be opened by the "File — Open an Account" menu command or by the same command of the "Navigator — Accounts" window context menu. Besides, the terminal will offer to open a demo account at the first program start to begin working immediately.

The process of opening an account consists of several steps:

Selecting Server

The first stage of account opening is the selection of a server to connect to. Addresses of available servers, their names, and ping are listed there. The most preferable is the server with the lowest ping. To perform additional checking of the ping, you should press the "Scan" button. After that, the ping information refreshes.

Also in this window, you can add a new server to connect to. To do it, press the " add new server" button or the "Insert" key. A server can be specified in different ways:

• Write its address and port separated with a colon. For example, 192.168.0.100:443;
• Write its domain name and port separated with a colon. For example, mt.company.com:443;
• Write an accurate name of a brokerage company.

As soon as you specify a server, press "Enter". To delete a server, select it and press the "Delete" key.

Account type

At this stage, a user can specify details of an existing trade account or start creating a new one.

This window contains three options:

• Existing trade account — if this option is chosen, it is necessary to fill out the "Login" and "Password" fields with the corresponding account details. A server selected at the previous step is displayed below these fields. You will be authorized at the specified server using the specified account as soon as you press the "Done" button.
• New demo account — if you choose this option and press the "Next" button, you will go to the creation of a new demo account.
• New real account — if you choose this option you will pass to specifying personal details for sending a request to open a real account.

Personal Details

The next stage of opening an account is specifying personal details:

The following data is requested to open an account:

• Name — the user's full name.
• E-Mail — email address.
• Phone — contact telephone number.
• Account Type — account type to be selected from the list defined by the brokerage company.
• Deposit — the amount of the initial deposit in terms of the basic currency. The minimum amount is 10 units of the specified currency.
• Currency — the basic currency of the deposit to be set automatically depending on the account type selected.
• Leverage — the ratio between the borrowed and owned funds for trading.

To activate the "Next" button and continue registration, it is necessary to flag "I agree to subscribe to your newsletters".

After the registration is completed successfully, a window will appear that contains information about the open account: "Login" — the account number, "Password" — the password for access, "Investor" — the investor's password (connection mode in which it is possible to check the account status, analyze the price dynamics, etc., but no trading is allowed).

After registration is complete, the new account will appear in the "Navigator — Accounts" window, and it is ready to work with. At that, the server sends a message to the terminal containing the login and passwords of this newly opened account. This message can be found in the "Terminal — Mailbox" window. Besides, after the account has been successfully registered, it will be authorized automatically.

Opening of a Real Account

Real accounts, unlike demo accounts, cannot be opened from the terminal. They can only be opened by brokerage companies under certain terms and conditions. Real accounts are marked correspondingly in the "Navigator — Accounts" window. To start working with them, one must perform authorization.