Customizing application layout

This is the default view of UCTrader. You can change its layout to suit your needs or create additional workspaces to group the information together. This section will show you how
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Customizing application layout

This is the default view of UCTrader. You can change its layout to suit your needs or create additional workspaces to group the information together. This section will show you how
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Open the main menu

Click the main menu icon to reveal options for creating, saving and opening workspaces

Create a new workspace

To create a new workspace, choose Main Menu > Workspace > New

Add a trade panel

Trade panels contain trade tiles, which show prices and allow you to execute trades.

To add a trade panel, choose Main Menu > Add > Trade Panel

Add a trade tile

To add a trade tile to the trade panel, select a currency pair from the trade panel's currency-pair picker

Add a blotter

Blotters show trading activity and allow you to manage orders.

Choose Main Menu > Add > Blotter > Execution

Position the blotter

You can position the blotter in a convenient location on the workpace by dragging it across the screen.

Click the floating blotter to continue

Rename the workspace

You can rename your workspaces. Simply double-click the workspace tab and type a new name.

Click the workspace tab to continue

Save the workspace

To see the changes the next time you login, please remember to save them.

Choose Main Menu > Workspace > Save

Trading FX with tiles

For the fastest possible execution, we offer one-click trading straight from the trading tile. Alternatively, we can offer double-click trading for added peace of mind. For more information or to request enablement of this feature, please contact your sales person
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Specify the currency amount

The Amount field accepts numeric input and shorthand units of 'k', 'm' and 'b' for thousand, million and billion respectively.

To specify one million, you can type '1000000' or '1m'.

Click the Amount field to continue

Select the dealt currency

Clicking the dealt currency field toggles between the base (GBP) and the counter (USD) currency of the tile's currency pair (GBPUSD).

To change the dealt currency from GBP to USD, click the dealt currency field

Select a value date

The default value date is spot. The date picker of the value date field provides a quick way to select tenors and broken dates.

To select a value date of six months forward, click the '6M' tenor

Execute the trade

You can see the forward points in the top-right corner and the all-in rate at the bottom of each rate. You can also see the trade direction in terms of the dealt currency for each rate.

To buy USD for GBP, click the left rate

View the confirmation message

A confirmation message informs you that the trade was successful.

Click the Close button to dismiss the message

View the blotter entry

You can see the trades in the Execution Blotter and the Historical Blotter.

To review a trade's confirmation ticket at any time, click the detail icon for the trade's entry in the blotter

Review the ticket

To review costs and checks, and to perform the confirmation step, click Proceed to Confirmation

Trading FX with RFQ tickets

Trading tickets allow you to request an executable streaming quote for spot, outright forwards, flexi forwards and swaps. As soon as you see a price on the ticket, you can click and immediately execute your deal.
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Launch a ticket

To launch an outright ticket for GBPUSD, click RFS on a GBPUSD outright tile

Specify a currency amount

The Amount field accepts numeric input and shorthand units of 'k', 'm' and 'b' for thousand, million and billion respectively.

To specify 15 million, you can type '15000000' or '15m'.

Click the Amount field to continue

Select the dealt currency

Clicking the dealt currency field toggles between the base (GBP) and the counter (USD) currency of the ticket's currency pair (GBPUSD).

To change the dealt currency from GBP to USD, click the dealt currency field

Select a value date

The default value date is spot. The date picker of the Value Date field provides a quick way to select tenors and broken dates.

To select a value date of 6 months forward, click the '6M' tenor

Get streaming prices

Click Get Stream to request an executable streaming quote

Execute the trade

Two streaming spot rates are displayed, complete with forward points and an all-in rate. The stream is only available for a limited time, and a countdown timer displays the remaining time for which the stream is available.

To execute the trade, click the left-hand rate, labelled 'BUY USD'

View the ticket

A ticket informs you that the trade was successful.

To close the ticket, click the cross in the top-right corner of the ticket

View the blotter entry

You can see the trades in the the Execution Blotter and in the Historical Blotter.

To review a confirmation ticket at any time, click the detail icon for the trade's entry in the blotter

Review the ticket

To close the ticket, click Close

Confirming your trades

You can process all pending trade confirmations for your company directly from UCTrader.
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Review and Proceed to confirmation

If you are enabled for digital trade confirmations, you can review your deal costs and charges and perform the confirmation step by clicking on Proceed to Confirmation

Confirm the trade

Trades settling before or on the spot date are considered automatically confirmed, whilst all Forward, Swap and Block trades settling after spot must be explicitly confirmed by customers.
To confirm your trade, click Confirm.

If you wish to save or print a copy of your trade confirmation click either the file or print icons

Review the ticket

To close the ticket, click Close

Viewing confirmations in the blotter

All the confirmations are stored and displayed in the Historical Blotter, where it is possible to retrieve them and check the confirmation status, as well as costs and charges and trade UTIs

Trades can have different states:
- Unconfirmed
- Disagreed
- Confirmed

To review a ticket, click the detail icon for the trades entry in the blotter

Trading FX block deals

Using block trading, you can submit a request for a single executable quote on simultaneous deals in the same currency pair across multiple accounts and valuation dates. You can enter the deals directly or upload them in a spreadsheet template and UCTrader will automatically validate and net them where possible.

For more information or to request enablement of this feature, please contact your sales person.
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Create a new block

Click Create New to create a block in UCTrader. You can also import it from spreadsheet

Specify the currency pair

Deals within the same block are restricted to the same currency pair and dealt currency.

To specify GBPUSD, you would type 'GBPUSD' into the currency pair field.

Click 'GBPUSD' to continue

Select the trading account

Select 'Account 1' as the trading account for the first deal

Select the trade type

Select 'SPOT'

Select the trade direction

Select 'BUY'

Specify the currency amount

The Amount column accepts numeric input and the shorthand units 'k', 'm' and 'b' for thousand, million and billion respectively.

To specify five million, you can type '5000000' or '5m'.

Click the Amount field to continue

Select the value date

Deal rows have two date columns: 'Date 1' and 'Date 2'. For spot and forward trades, only the first date column is used. For swap trades, 'Date 1' corresponds to the value date of the near leg, and 'Date 2' corresponds to the value date of the far leg.

Select 'SPOT' for Date 1

Add the second deal

Additional deals can be added to the block, one deal per row.

Click the second row to continue

Price the block

To get a streaming price for the block, click Quote

Execute the block

The two deals are of the same tenor and have been netted into a single trade.

To accept the quote and execute the block trade, click Accept

View the blotter entries

The trade is recorded in the blotter as two entries: one for each deal in the (pre-netted) block. Both entries have the same Trade ID.

Click the first two blotter rows to continue

Sorting and filtering blotters

You can review trades and manage orders in blotters.
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Open column options for 'CCY Pair'

To open the sorting and filtering options for the 'CCY Pair' column, click the column's heading

Specify filter criterion for 'CCY Pair'

Type 'EURUSD' into the filter field.

To apply the filter, click Apply

Open column options for 'Near Amt.'

To open the sorting and filtering options for the 'Near Amt.' column, click the column's heading

Specify the sort for 'Near Amt.'

To sort blotter entries in descending order of the amount of currency traded, click Sort Desc.

To apply the sorting criterion, click Apply

Removing a filter

To remove a filter, click on the cross

Placing an FX order

UCTrader supports placing single orders and conditional orders.

Access to the Orders Module is determined by regional business policy and your individual access privileges. For more information, please see your sales contact.

In this walkthrough, you will use a GBPUSD order ticket to prepare and submit a Take Profit order to sell 1 million GBP, with a Time-in-Force (TIF) of 1 month after spot.
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Launch an order ticket

To launch a GBPUSD order ticket, click Order on a GBPUSD tile

Select the order strategy

Select 'Single Order' from the Strategy dropdown list

Select the order type

Select 'Take Profit' from the Order Type dropdown list

Specify the currency amount

The Amount field accepts numeric input and shorthand units of 'k', 'm' and 'b' for thousand, million and billion respectively.

To specify 1 million, you can type '1000000' or '1m'.

Click the Amount field to continue

Specify the target price

Type the target price at which to sell. The target price for a Take Profit order must be above the current market price.

Click the Target Price field to continue

Open the Time-in-Force panel

To set the cancellation date of one month after spot, you will need to open the Time-in-Force panel.

To open the Time-in-Force panel, click the calendar icon

Open the Cancellation Date field's date picker

To open the Cancellation Date field's date picker, click on the Cancellation Date field

Specify the cancellation date

Change the cancellation date from Good-'Til-Cancelled (GTC) to 1M (one month after spot).

Click '1M' in the date picker of the Cancellation Date field

Submit the order

To submit the order, click Submit

View the submission confirmation

Click OK to continue

Read notification

When any order status changes, e.g. it becomes active or is filled, a notification will appear in the top-right corner of the screen.

You can click the notification's cross icon to dismiss it

Open notification tray

A numeric badge shows the number of unread notifications.

Click the icon to review previous notifications

Review previous notifications

A red dot appears next to unread notifications.

Click the notification icon again to close the dropdown

View the blotter entry

You can activate, deactivate, edit and cancel your orders in the Orders Blotter.

Open the menu by clicking its icon

Cancel the order

To cancel the order, choose Cancel from the blotter entry's menu

Confirm cancellation

Click the green tick to confirm the cancellation of the order

Trading Commodities

UCTrader supports placing commodities orders.

Access to the Orders Module is determined by regional business policy and your individual access privileges. For more information, please see your sales contact.

In this walkthrough, you will use a Alluminuim Cash order ticket to prepare and submit a Asian Swap order to sell 1 million GBP, with a Time-in-Force (TIF) of 1 month after spot.
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Launch a new commodity ticket

To launch a swap ticket for Aluminium, click RFS on an Aluminium Cash tile

Select the product type

The product selector allows you to switch between Bullet and Asian Swaps.

Select 'Asian Swap' to continue

Select trade direction

To change the direction from Buy to Sell, click the direction field

Specify the amount

The amount field accepts numeric input and shorthand units of 'k', 'm', and 'b' for thousand, million and billion respectively.

To specify 10 thousand MT, you can type '10000' or '10k'.

Click the Amount field to continue

Select the currency

The currency field allows you to specify which currency your selected product will be quoted in.

To change the quoted currency from USD to EUR, select this from the current field

Select the Asian Swap period

The payment schedule tool allows you to select pre-defined quarterly or monthly payment dates for your Asian Swap. Alternatively you can choose a custom period if you wish to enter a bespoke start and end date.

Select "WIN" period to continue

Change cash flow quantity

Once the payment schedule is selected, all dates and payment amounts are automatically populated. If you wish to set a custom payment amount for each date this can also be adjusted.

Change one of the cash flow quantities to 5000 to continue

Select FX Fixing

For non-USD commodities, the Forex Fixing field determines which price source will be used to convert your payments into your chosen currency.

Select "LME Fixing" to continue

Get Prices

Click on Request Price to request an executable quote

Execute the trade

The streaming quotes for your selected product are displayed. The stream is only available for a limited time, and a countdown timer displays the remaining time for which the stream is available.

To execute the trade, click on the rate, labelled 'SELL'

View the blotter entry

You can see the trade in the Commodity Blotter.

To review a confirmation ticket at any time, click the detail icon for the trade's entry in the blotter

Trading Money Market with tiles

UniCredit is glad to offer Money Markets product via UCTrader platform.
This will enable Clients to execute transactions autonomously, in a simple and fast way.
Money Market facilitates short-term funding and liquidity management through Deposit instruments with Fixed Rate Interest rate.
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Add a MM trade panel

To add a Money Market panel, choose Main Menu > Add > MM Tiles

Add a MM Tile

To add a trade tile to the MM Tiles, select a currency pair from the currency-pair picker

Expand a Tile

To expand the tiles, click on show more maturities

Launch a ticket

To launch a Money Market ticket click on the indicative price for a desired tenor

Specify the currency amount

The Amount field accepts numeric input and shorthand units of 'k', 'm' and 'b' for thousand, million and billion respectively.To specify 1 million, you can type '1000000' or '1m'. Click the Amount field to continue

Select a maturity date

Date picker of the Maturity Date field provides a quick way to select tenors and broken dates. To select a value date of 1 week, click the '1W' tenor

Get executable price

Click RFQ to request an executable quote

Execute the trade

Rate and Day count conventions will be displayed in the ticket. The stream is only available for a limited time, and a countdown timer displays the remaining time for which the stream is available. To execute the trade, click the “Book” button.

Confirmation ticket

A ticket informs you that the trade was successful. To close the ticket, click the cross in the top-right corner of the ticket

Add a blotter

Blotters show trading activity and allow you to manage orders. Choose Main Menu > Add > Blotter > MM Historic

View the blotter entry

You can see the trades in the the Execution Blotter and in the MM Historical Blotter. To review a confirmation ticket at any time, click the detail icon for the trade's entry in the blotter

Close the ticket

To close the ticket, click Close

Accessing detailed help

This is the end of the walkthrough.

For more detailed help, see the User Guide. To access the User Guide from within UCTrader, choose Main Menu > Help > User Guide
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