What is a trading platform?
It is an online platform where traders track the quotes of different kinds of assets and make trades using the services provided by a broker.
Why Should I Choose Gapflix Trade?
Traders have various reasons for choosing a broker. And here are some things that may become most important for you:
• Easy start. The minimum trade amount starts at $1/€1
• Free education. Use ready-made strategies, watch video tutorials and webinars.
• Round-the-clock support. Our specialists speak 15 languages and are ready to help in resolving any issue.
• Fast funds withdrawal. Withdraw your funds with zero commission in the most convenient way.
• Guarantees. Gapflix Trade is a certified broker. All traders' deposits are insured.
What is a time frame?
It is a trading platform's "price scale" for a certain period. If you select a 10-minute time frame on a line chart, you will see the part of the price chart showing the price movement for the last 10 minutes. If you select a 5-minute time frame on a Japanese candlestick chart, each candlestick will be showing the price dynamics for this period. If the quotes have gone up, the candle will be green. A candle will be red if the asset price has gone down.
You can choose the following time frames on the platform: 15 seconds, 1, 5, 15, and 30 minutes, 1 or 4 hours, 1 or 7 days, and 1 month.
Do I Need to Install Any Trading Software on My PC?
You can trade on our online platform in the web version right after you create an account. There is no need to install new software.
Why doesn't a trade open instantly?
It takes a few seconds to receive data from the liquidity providers' servers. In general, the process of opening a trade may take up to 5 seconds.
How Can I View the History of My Trades?
All information about your recent trades is available in the “Trades” section. You can access the history of all your trades through the section with the same name as your user account.
Selecting the Trading Conditions
There is a Trading Conditions menu next to the asset chart. To open a trade, you need to select:
• The trade amount. The amount of potential profit depends on the chosen value.
• The trade duration. You can set the exact time when the trade closes (for example, 12:55) or just set the trade duration (for example, 12 minutes).
Trading and Quote Sessions
A quote session is a period when the platform receives and transmits quotes. However, one can make trades within a slightly shorter trading session, which is part of a quote session.
As a rule, a quote session starts 5-10 minutes earlier and ends 5-10 minutes later than the trading session. This is meant to protect traders from the risk of high volatility at the beginning and the end of the quote session.
As a rule, a quote session starts 5-10 minutes earlier and ends 5-10 minutes later than the trading session. This is meant to protect traders from the risk of high volatility at the beginning and the end of the quote session.
For example, a quote session for Apple shares starts at 13:30 GMT (US Summer Time) and ends at 20:00. A trading session for Apple shares starts with a five-minute delay, i.e. at 13:35. And it ends at 19:55, which is 5 minutes before the quote session ends.
What is the most active time of day for trading?
Trading activity depends on the working hours of major exchanges and increases at the time of important news releases. The most active trading sessions are European and North American ones. The European session begins at around 6:00 UTC and closes at 15:00 UTC. The North American trading session spans from 13:00 UTC until 22:00 UTC.
Connecting Charts
The windows can display different asset charts including using different time frames and trading modes. For example, the top window may display the Bitcoin price on a 1-minute chart in FTT mode, while the bottom window will display the price dynamics of EUR/USD on a daily time frame.
Each chart has a separate trading conditions menu for more convenient trading.
Managing Trades
Following these guidelines will make it convenient for you to manage trades when you are simultaneously trading two assets.
1. First, all active trades and orders are marked on the chart. You can close trades without visiting the trades menu. Just click on your trade's icon and close it at the current result.
2. Secondly, you can drag the Take Profit and Stop Loss levels right on the chart. This makes it a lot easier to manage the positions.
3. Third, all positions are grouped by trading modes in the trades menu. Let's say you have opened 10 trades in FTT mode. In this case, you will see one tab with 10 FTT trades grouped separately according to their trading mode in the "Trades" menu. You can expand the tab with the grouped trades by clicking on it. After this, you can adjust the parameters of any position or close it.
The Chart: Zoom In and Zoom Out
You can see buttons with "+" (plus) and "-" (minus) icons at the bottom of the chart. They are designed for scaling (zooming) the chart. Click "plus" to zoom in the chart, and click "minus" to zooms out the chart and get information about the price trend over a longer period.
Historical Data
The chart is one of the most effective ways to visualize the asset price movement in the past. Charts help you easily determine the current and past trends.
The trading platform enables you to view trading history over the past few years. To do it, click on the chart window. Then just hold down the left mouse button and move the cursor to the right. Repeat the steps above as many times as necessary to find the needed time interval. The timeline is located below the chart.
For some assets, you can track the trend back to 1996 on a 1-month time frame.
Quotes Refresh Rate
The trading platform transmits real-time market prices. As a rule, up to 4 quotes are received per second.
What are trading limits?
Trading limits are a risk-management system operating on Gapflix Trade. When markets are volatile it may be challenging for our liquidity providers and us to hold the situation up, thus the system helps us limit the amount of investment that traders can use to open a position.
How do trading limits work?
When the system sets a limit up your account you may find certain new deals can't be executed. There are several types of limits on our platform:
• Volume — limits the total amount you can invest in an asset or group of assets.
• Number of open trades — pretty straightforward, limits how many open trades you can have at the time.
• Open position limit — this soft limit changes according to the volume of your currently open trades and doesn't expire.
Is it possible to cancel limits?
Once you face a limit there's no special way to cancel it. Normally our algorithms do that automatically so you may not even notice the limit. However, you can speed up getting rid of limits by doing any of these actions:
• Change preferred trade time;
• Trade other assets for a while;
• Reduce investments;
• Make a deposit and/or decline bonus money.