J-Trader Quick Start User Guideline

For Version 7.5.4

FUTURES & OPTIONS DEPARTMENT

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NOTICE
The purpose of this User Guideline is to educate how to use J-Trader for version 7.5.4 in more simple and easy-to-understand way. We assume that you have the accessibility (User Name & Password) on J-Trader, and familiar with futures and options trading. Along with every effort has been made to ensure that the information given in the J Trader Quick Start User Guideline is accurate, no legal responsibility is accepted by OSK for any errors, omissions or statements. The information set out in this quick guideline is provided at your sole risk and OSK shall have no liability to you in the event that you suffer any loss, whether in contract, tort or negligence, either directly or indirectly, arising out of this guideline or the information contained herein.

Contents
1. How to Log In

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3. 4.

Change Your Password

The Trading Platform Windows How to Change System Settings

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6. 7. 8. 9.

How to Add a Contract

Place a Trade or Working Order Cancel or Amend a Trade or a Working Order How to View Your Position How to Retrieve Trade and Order History

10. Log Off

1. How to Log In

To log in to J-Trader, double click on the JTrader icon as shown on the left.

After that, the J-Trader screen will appear. Enter the User Name and Password that has been provided to you then click on Login.

2. Change Your Password

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If you wish to change your password, type in your User Name, click on the icon beside the password field , then the Change Password window will appear.
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Enter your old password, and new password twice and click OK to change your password.

3. The Trading Platform Windows

When you have successfully logged on to J-Trader, the system will automatically open 3 different windows: i. The Main Trading Window ii. The Connectivity Status Window iii. The Message Window The Main Trading Window

The main trading window contains various functions and table on next slide describes each of the functions.

The Trading Platform Windows

Fields
Default Desktop

Description
Lists the desktops (trading environments) available, with the currently selected desktop highlighted in yellow

About
Settings Exit Host Price Feed

Provides installation information, for examples, its version number and build number
Configures & customizes alerts, mouse behavior, default order types, fat finger limits, and more. Click on this button to log off from J-Trader Indicates the connection status of the host & Price Feed where: Green = connected Yellow = connecting Grey = disconnected Opens links to customer-defined websites Provides a menu of tools for displaying orders in a ticker style layout, creating & calculating strategies, listings orders, submitting multiple orders, etc. Create a new Main Trading Window Aligns the windows horizontally or vertically

Links Tools New Tile Horizontal Tile Vertical

Minimize all

Iconizes all open windows

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The Trading Platform Windows

The Connectivity Status Window

This window displays your server connections.

The Message Window

This window screen displays your connection messages, alerts and request for quotes (RFQs).

4. How to Change System Settings

The settings menu allows you to change or adjust the settings according to your preference. You can make changes to display, general, sounds, alerts, trading settings, etc.

Click on Settings button on the Main Trading Windows to bring up the Settings window.

How to Change System Settings

In the Settings window, there are 6 tabs which are Display, General, Trading, Sounds, Contract, and Reflector. Each of these tabs allow you to edit settings to various functions within the system.

How to Change System Settings

Below is the table that display the various type of settings you can change in the window.
Tab Display Description To To To To edit the colours used for different kinds of price & price changes edit the display of fractions/decimals edit the default font to be used decide which screens you want to appear in front of others.

General

Properties of alerts Settings affecting the tick bar A checkbox for forcing messages to appear in front of other screens and dialog boxes To check boxes for controlling which kinds of log you want created To create shortcut keys on your keyboard you assign to commonly performed tasks: for example, pressing F3 for the Instrument tree. Settings affecting trades & how you enter them Play or mute the sound alerts Setting properties for individual exchanges, instruments and quoted instruments Edit settings to the reflector

Trading Sound Contract Reflector

Once you have make the changes, click OK to confirm.

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5. How to Add a Contract

Step 1 On the main trading window, click the icon New

Step 2 Click on Add.

Step 3 Click on the + sign.

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How to Add a Contract

Step 4 To add contract, double click on months that you want to monitor.

If you wish to add few contract months simultaneously, highlight the contract you wish to add and double click.

All the contracts will appear on Hot Quotes tab.

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6. Place a Trade or Working Order

There are two ways in which you can place a trade. The first way is to use a trade ticket. To bring up a trade ticket, click on the contract in which you wish to place a trade and click on Trade in the Hot Quotes tab.

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Place a Trade or Working Order

To place a trade: Select the Exchange, Commodity, Contract date and Order type field in which you wish to place the trade in. Key in the quantity under Lots Key in the trade price under Price Click on Buy if you wish to place a BUY order. if you wish to place a SELL order, click on Change to Sell and click on Sell

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Place a Trade or Working Order

The second way in which you can place a trade is to use the reflector. The reflector is a price ladder screen from which you can trade the full depth of market for a contract, including inside prices (price without volume that are between the bid and offer) to trade with reflector. It is best to use the reflector to place the trade after the market opens.

To bring up the reflector, click on the contract in which you wish to place a trade and click on Reflector in the Hot Quotes tab.

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Place a Trade or Working Order

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Enter the number of lots that you wish to trade If you wish to place a Buy or Sell Market order, click on Buy Mkt or Sell Mkt. If you wish to place 1 lot sell order at price 20531, click the pink box.
Working (W) and filled (F) sell order

Offer price

Offer Quantity

Best Offer Price

Working (W) and filled (F) buy order

Bid Quantity Bid price If you wish to place 1 lot buy order at price 20523, click the blue box.
Bid lots available
W1

Last traded price

W2

Offer lots available

Last traded volume

Best Bid Price

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Place a Trade or Working Order

The columns can be customized in the Hot quotes Windows. To customize the columns, right click on the Main Heading and click Select Columns option.

Select the columns that you want to display by ticking the box then click OK.

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7. Cancel or Amend a Trade or a Working Order

You can cancel trades or working orders through Status tab.
The Status tab shows you the status or all your trades and order, whether they are working, filled or rejected. Click on the Status tab and your working orders will be displayed on the top section of the window.

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Cancel or Amend a Trade or a Working Order

To cancel a particular order, select the order and click Pull Order. To amend a trade, click on Amend.

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Cancel or Amend a Trade or a Working Order

When you click on Amend, a trade ticket will appear and you can make amendments to the lot size and order price. Click Buy (or Sell for a Sell order) to confirm the amendment.

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8. How to View Your Position

To view your positions, click on Positions tab.

The P&L for respective contract is shown in contracts settlement currency. However, the total P&L is shown in USD.
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How to View Your Position

Columns can be customized in the Position tab. To customize columns, right click on the Main Heading and click on Select Columns. Select the columns by ticking the box & click OK.

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How to View Your Position

Below is the table that provides the explanation of what each column displays on the Positions tab.
Column
Net Position Buys / Sells Average Price Buy / Sell Average Price Open P/L Cumulative P/L Total P/L Commission Currency Margin per lot % P/L Burn Rate Net Position Change On Day Margin Paid Equity

Description
Net position for the contract: example, +20 for 20 lots long and -10 for 10 lots short Number of lots bought / sold Average price for the position The average price of Total Buys / Total sells on a contract The mark to market profit/loss calculated by average price of the net position against the lasttraded price The closed position profit/loss The sum of open P/L and cumulative P/L Total commission paid for trades in this contract . Commission per lot times number of lots done The currency of the contract that is traded The margin that require per lot The ratio of P&L to start-of-day net liquidity value The difference between start-of-day position and current net position The total margin utilized for the particular contract. The total is including the working order margins The start-of day net liquidity value add profit or less losses

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9. How to Retrieve Trade And Order History

Go to Status tab which will show all your working and filled orders and trade.

If you wish to retrieve your orders in the futures, click on Export (for txt format file) or CSV Export (for CSV format file).
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How to Retrieve Trade And Order History

Save a copy of report in your computer

After click on CSV Export, you will be able to save the export data in CSV format as shown above and open CSV format file in excel spreadsheet.
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10. Log Off

To log off from your J-Trader, click on Exit button.

J-Trader will save your current settings and all your products in Hot Quotes tab will be loaded automatically when you log-in on next session.

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The End

THANK YOU

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