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360TGTX User Guide

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1 Introduction............................................................................................................... 4

1.1 Audience .................................................................................................................................................4

1.2 User System Requirements ............................................................................................................4

1.3 Details for Network or Firewall Administrators ....................................................................4

1.4 Installing Java........................................................................................................................................5

1.5 Launching 360TGTX...........................................................................................................................5

1.6 Login Window ......................................................................................................................................5

1.7 First Time Login ...................................................................................................................................6

2 How GTX Trading Screens are Organized............................................................... 7

2.1 Price Tiles................................................................................................................................................7

2.1.1 Tile Modes ........................................................................................................................................7

2.1.2 Quick Trade Bars............................................................................................................................8

2.1.3 Side Bars ............................................................................................................................................9

2.2 Pages .....................................................................................................................................................11

2.2.1 Price Tile Pages............................................................................................................................11

2.2.2 Basket Worksheet Pages.........................................................................................................12

2.2.3 Manual Order Management Pages....................................................................................13

2.2.4 Visualizer Pages...........................................................................................................................14

2.2.5 Live Reports Pages.....................................................................................................................14

2.3 Tool Windows....................................................................................................................................15

2.3.1 Orders Tool and Order Query Tool....................................................................................15

2.3.2 Trades Tool and Trade Query Tool ....................................................................................15

2.3.3 Algos Tool......................................................................................................................................17

2.3.4 Audit Log Tool .............................................................................................................................18

2.3.5 Limit Monitor Tool .....................................................................................................................19

2.3.6 Reports Tools................................................................................................................................19

2.3.7 Performance Tool.......................................................................................................................20

3 How to Trade........................................................................................................... 21

3.1 Order Entry Window.......................................................................................................................21

3.2 Order Error Checking.....................................................................................................................23

3.3 Cancelling an Order........................................................................................................................24

3.4 Printing Trade Details ....................................................................................................................24

3.5 Session Disconnect.........................................................................................................................25

4 Advanced Trading Features.................................................................................... 26

4.1 Custom Price View: Whole Pips, Midpoint ..........................................................................26

4.2 Whole Pips ..........................................................................................................................................26

4.3 Midpoint Price...................................................................................................................................26

4.4 Compact Tiles ....................................................................................................................................27

4.5 Chart Tiles............................................................................................................................................28

4.6 RFS Tiles ...............................................................................................................................................28

4.7 Forward Grid Tiles............................................................................................................................29

4.8 Account Selector..............................................................................................................................29

4.9 Indicative Rates.................................................................................................................................29

5 Preferences .............................................................................................................. 30
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5.1 Pages Preferences ...........................................................................................................................30

5.2 Trading Settings ...............................................................................................................................31

5.3 Error Checking Tab..........................................................................................................................32

5.4 Sounds Tab.........................................................................................................................................33

5.5 Miscellaneous Tab...........................................................................................................................34

5.6 Limits Tab ............................................................................................................................................35

6 Other System Features............................................................................................ 36

6.1 Alert Popup.........................................................................................................................................36

6.2 Trades You May Have Missed....................................................................................................36

6.3 Changing Your Password.............................................................................................................37

6.4 Data Browser......................................................................................................................................37

6.5 Log Messages....................................................................................................................................38

6.6 Logout and Exit.................................................................................................................................38
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1 Introduction

1.1 Audience

This document is intended for traders using the GTX graphical user interface.

Prime Brokers should contact GTX for additional information specific to risk monitoring 

and management.

Developers should refer to GTX FIX Rules of Engagement and related FIX documents 

for information on programmatic interfaces for market data, order management, and 

trade notification.

1.2 User System Requirements

The client workstation must meet the following minimum system specifications:

• Windows XP or later, OS X 10.6

• Java 6 Update 10 (1.6.0_10), Java 7, or Java 8

• Minimum 2GB memory, 4GB recommended. The 360TGTX launcher requests a

256MB heap for the 360TGTX application to use, with an additional variable 

amount of RAM used by Java.

• Minimum 50MB free disk space in addition to the 120-150MB required by the 

Java Runtime Environment. Please note: Java WebStart downloads JAR files and 

never removes them, so you might want to periodically run the Java Control 

Panel and choose General / Temporary Internet Files / Settings / Delete Files to 

clean out any old JAR files. A fresh copy of the application will download the next 

time you launch it, and will consume 10-20MB.

• Internet access. See below for a discussion of proxy server and firewall issues.

1.3 Details for Network or Firewall Administrators

The application launch process is as follows:

1. User clicks “Access 360TGTX” button from www.360t.com/tradingsolutions/360tgtx/. The browser (if correctly configured) starts the Java WebStart 

process (javaws.exe) to handle the JNLP file type.

2. Java WebStart then downloads JAR files from one of the 360TGTX download 

servers. Once the JARs are downloaded and verified (user may have to clickthrough a security prompt), WebStart starts the 360TGTX application which 

displays a Login window.

3. When the user clicks the 360TGTX “Login” button, an encrypted connection is 

attempted to the one of the 360TGTX trading servers on port 443.

This will be a long-running bidirectional connection, and may be tunneled through a web 

proxy server, but will perform best if no proxy server is intercepting the packets.
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If a proxy tunnel is required, the user must enter the proxy details in the Login window, 

which will be remembered on the PC for subsequent logins.

If the connection fails, a new connection is automatically attempted to one of several 

redundant server addresses. While the reconnection is occurring, the prices will be 

“grayed” to indicate they are stale. The Performance tool shows exactly which Server IP is 

in use at any time and Log Messages will show the progress of any reconnection 

attempts.

Contact 360TGTX if you need a current list of server IP addresses if your firm operates 

security appliances that might block these initial or failover connection attempts.

1.4 Installing Java

Before launching 360TGTX, it may be necessary to download and install the Java Runtime 

Environment (JRE) (if not already installed). The JRE must be Java 6 Update 10 (1.6.0_10)

or higher in order for 360TGTX to function correctly.

To determine the current version installed on your machine, open the Control Panel and 

select Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP) or Programs and Features (Windows 

7).

Scroll down and look for entries such as “Java 6 Update 45 (64-bit)”. It is usually okay to 

have multiple versions installed (in case other applications require an old version); the 

Java Web Start launcher will select the one most appropriate for 360TGTX.

However if there are both 32-bit and 64-bit JREs installed, Java WebStart often picks the 

wrong one. So if launch problems occur, uninstall all but the latest JRE.

1.5 Launching 360TGTX

To launch 360TGTX, open www.360t.com/trading-solutions/360tgtx/ in your browser and 

click Access 360TGTX. Java Web Start will download the files automatically and launch 

the application. The first time you run 360TGTX you may receive a security warning. Click 

Start to accept the warning and run the program.

1.6 Login Window

A Login window will display automatically when you 

launch 360TGTX. To log in to 360TGTX:

• Enter Username and Password.

• Click Login or press Enter.

• Green lights indicate progress as the connection is 

established and your saved page layouts are 

prepared for display.

If your login is not successful, click Show Log Messages

and copy any relevant error messages to your network 
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support group as well as CAS@360T.com, noting any relevant information such as when 

you last successfully logged in from that particular computer and location.

Additional panels of the Login window are:

• Proxy: This panel enables you to configure a connection to 360TGTX through a 

proxy server, or to verify the proxy server settings that Java Web Start has 

deduced from your browser configuration. You should only use this option if your 

corporate outbound access policy prevents you from connecting to the 360TGTX

trading server directly.

• Local Time: Most timestamps are displayed in GMT, but in some parts of our 

GUI, a “Local” time display is offered. Java usually sets this Local time zone 

correctly from your operating system, but you may also use this panel to 

explicitly choose what time zone you would like 360TGTX to use as your “Local” 

time in these displays. 

• Release Notes: brief information about recent changes to the application, if any.

1.7 First Time Login

The first time you log in to 360TGTX using the temporary password that was initially 

provided to you, you will be prompted to choose a new, secret password. 360TGTX

passwords are case sensitive, and must satisfy the requirement shown. Enter and confirm 

a new password, then click 

OK.

You should then see a 

success message indicating 

that the password change 

was successful. At this 

point the application will 

resume building and 

displaying the trading 

screens.

On first login, you will most likely see a default pricing tile page, or a page similar to 

ones already being used by other traders in your firm. You may skip to Section 3 to 

begin placing orders right away, or read the next section to customize your pages and 

tiles first.
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2 How 360TGTX Trading Screens are Organized

The Main Window contains multiple Pages (selected by tabs) along with Tool anchor 

buttons around the edges of the window.

A Tool is a sub-window which may be “docked” in the Main Window, or “floated” above 

it. When the Main Window is minimized, all Tools minimize with it. You may drag Tool 

anchor buttons from one edge to any other edge. Some tools are “dockable” (often work 

best when docked along top edge or bottom edge, rather than right or left), while other 

tools may only be floated (or hidden).

A Page is a user-customizable area containing columns of Tiles (or content such as a 

Basket Worksheet). Pages are normally arranged as “tabs” of the Main Window. Click the 

‘Float’ button to tear off a Page to its own window. Torn-off Pages may be minimized 

separately from the Main Window.

A Tile displays the live-updating view of market prices for a single symbol (currency 

pair).

2.1 Price Tiles

2.1.1 Tile Modes

Pricing tiles are typically displayed in ‘By Price’ mode or ‘By Size’ mode.

In ‘By Price’ mode (above, left), each level represents a resting bid or offer available for 

you to hit or lift, with the highest bid at the top of the left side, and the lowest offer at 

the top of the right side. The large green numbers indicate the aggregated size of the 

best bid /offer. Your own prices are indicated by background color and a red stripe.

In ‘By Size’ mode (above, right), the price at each Size Tier represents the volumeweighted average price (VWAP) of the bids or offers that will be swept if you execute 

that size. The large numbers indicate the VWAP price of your default ‘Order Qty’ (6.2m 

EUR in the example above). This best price is green, but turns yellow if a better price 

(shown above in small green numbers) is available for smaller sizes.

In the upper corners and shown in red, are the number of bids and offers that you 

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top-of-book, your own bids and offers will be visible (indicated by a red stripe) in the ‘By 

Price’ mode, but will never be included in your ‘By Size’ tiers since the VWAP average 

only includes ‘hittable’ prices.

To customize the Size Tiers, 

use the right-click menu and

choose ‘Change Quantities’.

In the ‘Order Quantities’ 

window, note that the Full 

Lots Only option will not 

only be applied to new 

orders entered from this Tile, 

but also will filter out any 

odd-lot quantities from your 

price view (including VWAP 

averages).

See Section 0 for information about rounding, aggregated book, midpoint price display, 

and additional modes such as RFS, Compact Mode, Chart Mode, and Forward Grid.

2.1.2 Quick Trade Bars

The pricing tiles have several “hot zones” for quick order entry. Use the right-click menu 

and choose ‘Change Quick Trade’ to enable or disable these as desired. 

The ‘Quick Take Bar’ contains the ‘Buy-Plus’ and ‘Sell-Minus’ buttons which send a limit 

order slightly higher or lower than the market. The configurable ‘slippage pips’ reduce 

the chance of a ‘miss’ in rapidly-moving markets. A ‘Price-Includes-Permitted-Slippage’ 

toggle (Y / N) allows you to make the large bid/ask price wider by this amount.

The ‘Quick Make Bar’ allows you to quickly join the current best bid or offer by clicking 

‘Bid’ or ‘Offer’. Also you can use a DRAG gesture (press but do not release the mouse 

button) starting at the Bid or Offer button, then release the mouse button somewhere on 

the “price ruler” that appears to place your bid or offer at any price near the market.

The ‘Quick Amount Bar’ drop-down contains a customizable list of order sizes.
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The ‘Quick Stop Bar’ and ‘Quick OCO Bar’ have configurable pip offsets that control how 

far outside or across the market your stop or OCO pair will be entered.

In ‘By Size’ mode, each size tier has four 

hot zones from left-to-right: ‘Sell-Minus’, 

‘Sell’, ‘Buy’, and ‘Buy-Plus’ for the order 

quantity displayed in the center of each 

row.

2.1.3 Side Bars

The ‘Change Quick Trade’ window also 

allows you to enable or disable Side Bars 

which appear along the left edge of your 

pricing Tile.

Max Buy/Sell: The left number, in blue, is 

the maximum amount you can buy 

without exceeding your credit limit. The 

right number, in orange, is the maximum 

amount you can sell without exceeding your credit limit. 

Profit Tracker: shows position and profit ONLY for trades done on the current trade 

date (rolls at 5pm NY time).
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Job Tracker: shows the total amount you have bought or sold since the last time you (a) 

traded in the opposite direction, or (b) clicked the Finish Job button.
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2.2 Pages

Pages may be created using the ‘New Page Wizard’ found in the toolbar, and shown 

below. Pages may also be cloned or copied from other users (see Preferences / Pages).

2.2.1 Price Tile Pages

The ‘Price Tiles’ wizard allows you to quickly fill a new page with tiles for a list of symbols. 

Enter the list by typing, or by clicking the icon for a list, or by clicking one of the 

frequently-used symbol list buttons.
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After clicking Finish you can customize the page further. By default, a Page is in ‘Mixed 

Tile Mode’, meaning you can have any combination of ‘By Price’, ‘By Size’, ‘Compact’ 

tiles, etc.

For example, the page below has one ‘By Price’ tile, two ‘By Size’ tiles, six ‘Compact’ tiles, 

and one ‘Chart’ tile.

To quickly switch all your tiles a different mode, click one of the mode buttons in the 

toolbar. To revert all tiles to their ‘natural’ mode, click the ‘Mixed’ button in the toolbar.

The right-click menu provides some ways to customize a Page:

• Auto-Arrange Tiles: redistributes extra space so all tiles fit in the available space

• New Tile: a sub-menu allowing new currency pairs to be added easily

• Clone Tile: duplicates the current tile, useful if you wish to view a given currency 

pair using different types of display.

• Zoom: expands or shrinks the content of the page

• Share Page: allows you to enter another username and that user will be 

prompted to accept a copy of your page into their own set of pages.

The heights of tiles (except for compact mode) can be adjusted by dragging the bottomright corner. To rearrange tiles, use the drag bar along the right edge.

2.2.2 Basket Worksheet Pages

The 360TGTX Basket Worksheet feature allows you to construct an ‘index’ or ‘basket’ 

using JavaScript formulas arranged in a spreadsheet-like grid. There are several 

predefined baskets that you can start with from the New Page Wizard, such as the 

“DXY1MIL” dollar index basket shown below. When you click “Basket Buy” or “Basket 
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Sell”, multiple orders are sent. Contact 360TGTX for detailed instructions on how to 

construct or customize a basket.

2.2.3 Manual Order Management Pages

If permitted for your account, you can use a Manual Order page to hold a private book 

of orders that will NOT be executed on the 360TGTX ECN automatically. When the 

360TGTX market price reaches the levels entered, the order turns red and audible alerts 

are triggered. Contact 360TGTX for further information about 360TGTX Manual Order 

system capabilities.
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2.2.4 Visualizer Pages

For firms that have multiple legal entities, multiple trading desks, or multiple prime 

brokers, a Visualizer page provides a view of all the relationships and credit utilization 

within the 360TGTX ‘Credit Network’.

2.2.5 Live Reports Pages

Your account can be granted permission for various Live Reports, which can be viewed 

on a standalone page separate from your trading pages. Contact 360TGTX for more 

information about available reports.
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2.3 Tool Windows

360TGTX Main Window is the anchor for the following Tool Windows which may be 

docked or floating.

2.3.1 Orders Tool and Order Query Tool

The Orders Tool always shows your active orders, while Order Query Tool can be used to 

examine older orders or orders for another account that you might have permission to 

view but not trade in.

You can cancel an order by clicking on the cancel button. You can modify the order price 

or quantity by clicking on the “Modify” button for the order. You can use a DRAG gesture 

(hold down the mouse button) in the Limit Price column to easily move an active order 

to a new price; release the mouse button at the desired position along the “price ruler” 

that appears. 

Note that supervisor users may view the orders of other users within their firm by using 

this window, while users with Global Cancel permission may cancel these orders as well.

A supervisor user who does not have Global Cancel permission can see orders from 

other users, but cannot cancel them.

2.3.2 Trades Tool and Trade Query Tool

The Trades Tool always shows your most recent trade at the top, and cannot be filtered 

or sorted. This helps prevent a situation where you might not see a fill because you 

forgot your window was filtered or sorted.

In contrast, the Trade Query window allows sorting and filtering.

This window can be customized by right clicking and choosing “Visible Columns”, or 

clicking the equivalent button just above the scroll bar.
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The controls at top right determine whether only your trades are displayed, or all trades 

executed by your firm. The ‘Components’ checkbox can be used to reveal the individual 

component trades (partial fills) that were deleted and replaced by a single larger trade as 

a result of automatic averaging.

To obtain more details on any of 

the trades shown, you can either 

click on the trade ID to open a 

Data Browser for the trade, or 

open a new Trade Query tool.

At the top of the window is a 

Change button next to a 

description of your current Trade 

Query.

Click Change to choose which 

accounts and date or time ranges 

to include in the query.

Trade Query provides a large number of columns; click ‘Visible Column’ in the right-click 

menu to select them.

Ordinary deals will be colored green or orange, indicating a buy or sell of the base 

currency, respectively. Transactions that have been reversed appear in dark gray. Usually 
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the only such trades will be those partial-fills that were automatically canceled and 

replaced with a single larger trade during the auto-averaging process. You can uncheck 

the ‘Aggregation Components’ box to hide these rows.

2.3.3 Algos Tool

360TGTX includes a TWAP or ‘Time Slicer’ algorithm. Time slicing is a useful way to 

execute a large order over time with less market impact. TWAP is typically used to 

achieve an average price that matches a benchmark price published by some other party.

For either purpose, you start by opening the Algos Tool which provides a one-line 

summary of all active algos, then click ‘New Algo’. 

Start by opening the ALGOS tool, then click NEW ALGO. Several pre-defined time ranges 

can be selected, or you can choose to Start ‘On Placed’ and end after a fixed number of 

clips or period of time.

The number of clips is automatically determined from either Clip Interval or a Clip Size.

By default, each clip is a market order. You may choose a ‘Passive’ algorithm which first 

places a resting bid or offer inside the spread, which then switches to a market order if 

not filled within some configurable amount of time.
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2.3.4 Audit Log Tool 

This tool keeps you updated about your actions in the trading window and will notify 

you as orders are placed on the server, matched in full or in part, or cancelled. Choose 

‘Change’ in the right-click menu to request audit log records from a particular time 

range.
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2.3.5 Limit Monitor Tool

This tool allows you to monitor your current credit usage. The Peak Risk field will show 

your maximum credit usage for this limit type over this time period.

The limit types, or risk measures, available will include any type of limit that has actually 

been set by either you or your counterparty, along with additional risk measures selected 

in the Limits tab of your Preferences.

2.3.6 Reports Tools

The ‘Reports’ are updated on-the-fly from your current day’s trading.

Additional ‘Multi-Day Reports’ are not ‘live updating’ but include more extensive 

historical trade details.

The MR3500 ‘Trade Details’ report includes all your trades and can be filtered by symbol, 

trade date, etc.

The MR3599 ‘Trade Drill-Down’ report allows you to interactively compute totals and 

counts, for example your total month-to-date trade count and volume grouped by 

symbol.

The TR5000 Basket Trade Report, which provides additional details for basket trades, is 

needed because ‘basket trade’ size and computed ‘basket price’ values are recorded in 

user-defined units that have no bearing on real currency trades. Only the (real, from an 

accounting standpoint) component trades that result from each basket trade appear in 

the MR3500 and other back office reports as individual single-symbol trades.

Contact 360TGTX for more information about these or other reports you would like to 

have enabled.
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2.3.7 Performance Tool

This displays ongoing metrics related to the 

performance of the application and the 

network connection to the 360TGTX servers.

Link latency: shows the round-trip time for 

application-level pings sent from your 

computer to the 360TGTX server and back.

Clocks: shows the time in GMT on your local 

computer clock (“L”) and the true time 

reported by the 360TGTX server clock (“S”). 

The difference between these two times is 

known as clock skew and is taken into account when necessary by the application. You 

can click the stopwatch icon to re-compute the clock skew if, for example, you have 

manually adjusted your local clock.

Bandwidth: shows the amount of traffic being sent by 360TGTX to your computer. The 

three numbers displayed reflect the traffic from the last one, ten and sixty seconds, 

respectively.

Heap size: shows the amount of memory allocated to the program and the percentage 

of this memory that the program is using. (Note that the actual amount of system 

memory used may be 50 to 100MB more than the allocated heap size due to the size of 

the JVM itself). The “garbage collector” is run automatically by Java at regular intervals to 

free up memory. To run it manually, click the “trash can” icon to the right of the Heap 

size field. For standard Java configurations, this action should never be necessary.
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3 How to Trade

Every 360TGTX trade starts with an order to buy or sell. 360TGTX applies price / time 

priority to match your order with other participants’ orders or quotes. This means if your 

order is resting at a price and some other participant “joins” your price, you retain 

priority and will be filled first as soon as an equal price appears on the other side.

Use the “hot zones” such as ‘Bid’, ‘Offer’, ‘Buy-Plus’, ‘Sell-Minus’ shown in Section 2.1.2 to 

start a new order. It is critical to understand the three distinct ways these hot zones may 

be used:

• In ‘Single-Click’ trading mode, the order will be sent right away. Technically, a 

‘click’ is a complete cycle of button-pressed and button-released at the same 

spot on the screen, so if you change your mind after pressing the mouse button, 

simply move the mouse away from the hot zone before releasing the button, and 

no order will be sent.

• In ‘Double-Click’ trading mode, click once to open the Order Entry window. If 

the window is already open, then it will be updated to reflect the newly-clicked 

hot zone. 

• In ‘Double-Click’ trading mode, double-click to send the order right away. A 

double-click is defined by the operating system as button pressed / released / 

pressed / released all within some fraction of a second. The default in Windows 7 

is 500 milliseconds, but this double-click time can be adjusted to as short as 200 

milliseconds in Control Panel / Mouse / Buttons. If you do not complete both 

clicks within the required time, then it is not deemed a ‘double-click’ by the 

operating system but rather two distinct single-clicks, so the order will not be 

sent, but the Order Entry window will appear instead. You can either click ‘Send’

in the window, or close the window and try to double-click again. On a successful 

double-click you may see the Order Entry window start to appear but it will 

disappear again. 

3.1 Order Entry Window
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This window allows you to customize order parameters before sending. First, choose one 

of following actions: 

• Buy sets the Limit Price to the current best offer.

• Sell sets the Limit Price to the current best bid.

• Bid sets the Limit Price to the current best bid and hides the IOC / GTC / Seconds 

choices since ‘bid’ implies GTC 

• Offer sets the Limit Price to the current best offer and hides the IOC / GTC / 

Seconds choices since ‘offer’ implies GTC

• Buy Stop sets the Stop Trigger Price to a configurable number of pips above the 

current best bid.

• Sell Stop sets the Stop Trigger Price to a configurable number of pips below the 

current best offer.

• OCO Buy sets up a Bid and a Buy-Stop with one-cancels-other linkage

• OCO Sell sets up an Offer and a Sell-Stop with one-cancels-other linkage

• Trailing Buy Stop sets up a Buy Stop whose trigger price moves downward as 

new market lows are seen

• Trailing Sell Stop sets up a Sell Stop whose trigger price moves upward as new 

market highs are seen

• Call Level sets up an alert (and sound if desired) for the specified price

For Buy and Sell actions the following choice is shown:

• IOC: Immediate-or-Cancel (IOC) orders are filled immediately (as much as 

possible) by “taking” prices already on the book up to and including your 

specified price. No unfilled portion is displayed on the book.

• GTC: Any portion of the order not filled immediately will remain active on 

360TGTX until canceled by the user (or at a separately-configured Expiry Time).

Also referred to as “work the balance”.

• Good for ‘n’ Seconds: A timer starts when the order is sent to the server for 

placement. After the specified number of seconds has elapsed, the order will be 

cancelled automatically.

When you enter the Limit Price field, a red box initially highlights the digits that are most 

commonly edited (those to the right of the “big figure”). You can overtype these digits 

directly, or use left/right arrows and backspace keys as you would normally.
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Also, the Up and Down arrow keys will move the price up and down by one pip, the 

PgUp / PgDown keys by ten pips, and Shift-Up / Shift-Down by 0.1 pip increments. The 

mouse “scroll wheel” can also be 

used to adjust by one-pip 

increments, or 0.1 pips while 

holding down the Shift key.

The order quantity editor includes 

a drop-down with customizable 

list of commonly-used quantities; 

the mouse scroll wheel can be 

used to cycle among these values.

The currency toggle button allows 

you to enter round amounts of 

the ‘right-hand-side’ currency if 

desired. Important: the ‘Buy’ and 

‘Sell’ directions always refer to the 

‘left-hand-side’ currency. 

Directions for both currencies are 

displayed on the ‘Send Order’ 

button to eliminate any 

ambiguity.

Additional order parameters may 

be displayed by clicking the 

double-black arrow, and then by 

expanding the relevant section as 

shown at right.

3.2 Order Error Checking

360TGTX applies some error checks to help protect you from obvious input errors, as 

shown at right.

You may still place the 

order in this case, but only 

after confirmation.

Note: If you are in a hurry 

and know you have not 

made an error, hitting 

ENTER once per Okay button will place the order. You do not have to move or click the 

mouse.

Some errors must be corrected, and cannot be ‘OKed’:

• Negative or zero price
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• Zero size

• Order amount in excess of your ‘hard maximum’ (default 100 million USD).

Other examples of warnings that can be ‘OKed’:

• Price more than a configurable

distance from market midpoint

• Price that crosses an order you 

already have on the book

• No market midpoint price available 

for price comparison

• Order quantity larger than your ‘soft 

maximum’ (default 10 million USD)

• Order quantity smaller than your ‘soft 

minimum’ (default 10,000 USD)

The error checks can be customized by 

selecting File, Preferences, Error Checking

tab.

3.3 Cancelling an Order

There are several ways to cancel an order:

• Click Cancel in the Orders or Order 

Query tool window. The ‘selected’ 

order (typically the most recent order, 

but arrow keys can change the 

selection) can also be canceled by 

hitting the F8 key. 

• Click the Cancel All button on the toolbar.

•

• If you have Global Cancel permission, you can also use the Global Cancel button 

on the toolbar to cancel orders placed all users in your firm.

• Click the red order count in the top left or right corner of a Price Tile to cancel all 

orders on that side of that currency pair.

3.4 Printing Trade Details

Some firms require a printed trade ticket for compliance purposes. If you set Enable 

Trade Tickets in your preferences (Section 6.2.1, Error! Reference source not found.), 

then for each trade you will see an alert message:

There are three buttons at bottom right of the alert message. The leftmost button will 

immediately print these tickets to the default printer defined with your operating system.
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Each trade will be printed on a separate page. The middle button will first show a print 

preview (see example below). The rightmost button will dismiss the alert popup. After 

you dismiss the popup, you can still print (or re-print) any required Trade Tickets using 

the Trade Query tool.

3.5 Session Disconnect

A disconnection from the 360TGTX server (whether intentional or not) automatically 

cancels any orders that were marked for ‘Kill On Disconnect’. The default is ‘Survive After 

Disconnect’.

If you are disconnected from the 360TGTX server, your price tiles and other content 

remains visible but is overlaid with a gray ‘stipple’ pattern to indicate the information is 

stale.

To disconnect from the server, go to the File menu and select Disconnect.

If you disconnected in this way, you can use File, Reconnect to reconnect.

If you became disconnected unexpectedly due to a network or other problem, the 

360TGTX application will automatically try to reconnect indefinitely. To stop these 

reconnect attempts, use File, Stop Reconnecting.
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4 Advanced Trading Features

4.1 Custom Price View: Whole Pips, Midpoint

To modify your Price View, you can right click on the price in the Pricing Tile and choose 

Change Price View. This will allow you display whole pip and/or midpoint pricing along 

with changing how the book is aggregated and displayed.

Compare the two views of the same market below. Both have the optional Midpoint 

Price enabled (including the difference-from-midpoint in brackets). The tile on the right 

is configured for Whole Pips.

4.2 Whole Pips

Some traders may find this is a much more appealing view in certain markets.

• More meaningful aggregated volumes are visible at whole-pip (or half-pip) price 

points, versus the small amounts typically visible at each price point the raw 0.1 

pip order book.

• This rounded best bid/offer changes much less frequently.

• The unrounded raw best bid/offer is still displayed above the large rounded 

prices.

• The rounded prices are displayed in yellow if the true price (green) is better.

When trading against a Whole Pip price view, you will still be filled at the best price with 

full precision, for example a buy order up to 25 thousand ounces against the silver prices 

above would be filled at 17.918, not at 17.92.

If rounding is not desired, there are two other useful choices for a Price View: Raw Book 

(each distinct order or quote is displayed in a separate box), or Aggregated Book (all 

amounts at each distinct price point are combined into one box).

4.3 Midpoint Price

Distribution of a midpoint price is required for Dodd-Frank compliance in some markets. 

Since it can take up a lot of valuable screen space, 360TGTX provides several ways to 

display it. When enabled, the overall midpoint appears at the top, between the best bid 

and offer.
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The ALL DIFF mode adds a 

bracketed difference-frommidpoint next to every price in 

the stack, allowing traders to 

quickly discern how far away 

individual prices are from the 

mid-market price.

The LP MID and LP DIFF modes 

are useful for metals and NDFs, 

in which each dealer supplies 

their own market midpoint. Even 

if the dealers are required to 

transmit midpoints, traders may 

find the ALL DIFF mode to be 

more useful because LP bias 

toward buying or selling is only visible when comparing against an aggregated (multi-LP)

midpoint.

To enable Midpoint Prices, Whole Pip mode, or any other variation of aggregation and 

rounding, click the button in the tool bar. 

Use the button at the bottom left to APPLY TO CURRENT TILE if you used the right-click 

menu on a single pricing tile or to APPLY TO ALL TILES ON CURRENT PAGE if you clicked the 

button in the toolbar.

Or use the CONFIGURE TRADING SETTINGS button, then check the box next to the desired 

scope (tile, page, symbol, or global).

4.4 Compact Tiles

To change all tiles on a page to Compact Mode, click the button in the toolbar.

Or you can use and configure some tiles in Compact Mode and others in full-size 

modes.

In compact mode, there are 

two trading hot zones, 

equivalent to the ‘Buy-Plus’ 

and ‘Sell-Minus’ zones of a 

full-size tile. The displayed 

slippage pips are included in 

the price shown.

Enter a basket symbol to 

display the prices from one of

your Basket Worksheet pages. 

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switches to the appropriate basket Page from which you 

can enter the desired trade size and then click Basket 

Buy or Basket Sell. 

4.5 Chart Tiles

While any pricing tile can be changed to Chart mode, 

you may find it works best to create a stand-alone Page 

containing only Chart tiles.

The figure at right demonstrates the available chart 

types:

• Last 1-hour of market bid/offer prices, updated 

continuously as long as you are logged in, but 

not available historically

• Last 1-hour of indicative bid/offer prices, 

updated every 6 seconds, and available 

historically (as soon as you log in or switch 

symbols)

• Last 4-hours of one-minute high / low / close 

bars based on the indicative bid/offer.

• Last 60-days of one-day high / low / 

close bars based on the indicative 

bid/offer.

4.6 RFS Tiles

To use RFS, choose CHANGE MODE / RFS from 

the right-click menu. You may wish to first 

choose CLONE in the right-click menu if you 

want to keep an existing BY PRICE or BY SIZE tile alongside the new RFS tile.

After you click Start, all available providers see your desired quantity and can respond 

with a private stream that usually lasts for 2 minutes. If you choose not to deal within this 

period, you will need to stop and re-start the request to get quotes again.

Double-click the price you wish to take, or click once if you are in single-click mode (only 

a single trade will occur if you forget and click multiple times).
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4.7 Forward Grid Tiles

For accounts that are enabled for 

forward or swap trading, the Forward 

Grid mode displays the top-of-book 

prices for multiple tenors. One of the 

tenors may be selected using the 

buttons along the left; this controls 

which tenor is displayed in the larger 

numbers and hot-zones at the top.

4.8 Account Selector

Previously there was a single global 

Account Selector in the toolbar (only 

for House Supervisor users with 

multiple credit nodes).

Now the toolbar displays the an

Account Selector for the current Page, 

but other Pages can be set to a different account, and individual Tiles within a page can 

be set to a different account as well.

The Account Selector now controls three different functions:

• Credit Node - the typical way for a user to trade on-behalf-of multiple accounts

• Allocation Strategy - can be used to drive Auto-Book-to-Client for managed 

accounts

• SEF Parties - such as Executing Firm, Clearing Member, Clearinghouse

Use the button at the bottom left to APPLY TO CURRENT TILE if you used the Account 

Selector in the right-click menu on a single pricing tile, or to APPLY TO ALL TILES ON 

CURRENT PAGE if you clicked the Account Selector box in the toolbar.

Or use the CONFIGURE TRADING SETTINGS button, then check the box next to the desired 

scope (tile, page, symbol, or global).

4.9 Indicative Rates

A few multi-symbol tiles are available such as Indicative 

Swap Rates and Indicative Cross Rates. To add one of these 

tiles to your page, right-click and choose them from the 

“New Tile” sub-menu.
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5 Preferences

The 360TGTX Workstation has a number of options for customizing its behavior. These 

options are known as preferences. Additionally, the Workstation has the ability to save 

your window layout, which incorporates general window information such as the 

windows you have open and where they are displayed on-screen. The window layout 

also includes additional window-specific information, such as the rooms displayed in a 

Dealing screen.

Preferences can be changed using the Preferences window. To open this window, go to 

the File menu and select Preferences. There are a number of tabs in this window.

5.1 Pages Preferences

This tab allows you to setup preconfigured pages with tiles ready to go under Sample 

Pages and will also list any Pages you have made previously using the New Page Wizard 

(these can be found under My Pages)

Another feature of this screen is the ability to share pages with other users. If somebody 

has set up some tiles on a page in such a way that you would like to use, you can copy 

the configuration over to your profile and choose it from here to have the exact same 

setup.
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5.2 Trading Settings

All settings such as Order Qty and Quick-Take Pips have a ‘factory default’, which might 

differ by symbol, for example 1 million for EURUSD, or 1000 ounces for XAUUSD.

The Trading Settings screen allows you to view what settings are currently being applied 

to specific tiles on each page.

As you use your pricing tiles, any changes to Order Qty, etc. are typically stored just for 

that one tile.

However you may want to apply settings to “all tiles”, or to have your custom values 

applied to any new tile that you may create or switch to in the future.

Expand any setting in the left pane to control whether your custom value should be 

applied globally, or to all tiles on a specific page, or to all tiles for a specific symbol, or 

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5.3 Error Checking Tab

This tab allows you to customize the price and size checks applied by the order and 

quote sanity checkers.

Hard maximum size is the allowed upper limit on size. If applied, it will be compared 

with the amount of the order or the base amount of the quote, converted to the 

specified currency using the slow valuation rate (displayed for your convenience in the 

currency pair table at bottom). For example, let’s say you have defined a hard maximum 

size of 10mm USD and you attempt to place an order for 9 lots in the EUR:USD SPOT 

1mm room. The order has a size of 9mm EUR. If the exchange rate is 1.2 EUR:USD, this is 

equivalent to 10.8mm USD and so the order would be disallowed.

Soft maximum size works in the same way as the hard maximum size except that the 

sanity checkers will only give a warning if this amount is exceeded, and you will still be 

able to submit the order or quote after confirmation. Soft minimum size specifies the 

allowed lower limit on size and is analogous to the soft maximum size.

The Warn when crossing our price checkbox controls whether the order sanity checker 

should warn if you attempt to place an order that matches or crosses the price of 

another order you are working.
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The table at bottom allows you to set hard and soft price limits for each currency pair. A 

price satisfies a price limit only if it is within the limit’s specified number of pips from the 

market midpoint. If you wish to override the default price limits for a particular currency 

pair, click the corresponding Override checkbox and enter values in the My Soft Limit

and My Hard Limit columns. Alternatively, you can leave these last two columns empty 

if you want to have no price limits.

5.4 Sounds Tab

This tab allows you to customize the sounds that you hear when various system events 

occur. Sounds are disabled by default, but you can easily enable them using the Enable 

Sounds checkbox.

• The System Alert sound plays when you receive an alert message.

• The Connected to Server sound plays when you log in to the GAIN 360TGTX

server.

• The Buy sound plays when you lift an offer.

• The Bid Given sound plays when your bid is hit.

• The Sell sound plays when you hit a bid.

• The Offer Paid sound plays when your offer is lifted.
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The default sounds can be changed by selecting the other sounds, such as Cash Register, 

that appear in each dropdown. You can disable sounds for an individual event by 

selecting the “[no sound]” option that appears at the top of the dropdown list.

If you want to use your own sounds, you can do so by using the Add Sound File button 

at the bottom and selecting a .au or .wav file that you have on your own computer. This 

file will then be shown in the dropdown lists.

5.5 Miscellaneous Tab

The top two options in this tab are only of use to banks. The first deals with whether or 

not 360TGTX will prompt for confirmation when you make a manual balance adjustment 

(such as a credit or a position roll) to an account. The second option controls whether or 

not inactive users are displayed in the Switchboard Internal Users tab by default.

Note the Show tooltips option. If this option is enabled, tooltips will appear over various 

items in the Workstation user interface when you move the mouse cursor over the items 

for a couple of seconds. These tooltips will provide descriptive information. It is 

recommended that you leave this option enabled until you become familiar with the 

Workstation.

The next option, Display smoother-looking text (anti-aliased fonts), determines

whether or not the Workstation applies a smoothing algorithm on text displayed to the 

user. Smoothed text generally looks better, but requires extra processing time.

Enable Trade Tickets controls whether or not an alert message allowing you to print 

trade details displays when you make a trade; see Section 3.4, Printing Trade Details for 

more information.

Always show P/L numbers in controls whether or not P/L numbers are always displayed 

in a given currency.
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The table at bottom controls default order settings for each currency pair. For any 

individual currency pair, you can change the default order size, type, partial fill restriction, 

auto-cancel options, allocation strategy, and information.

Recall that these defaults will be filled in on the order entry tile/popover when you begin 

order placement. Unless you are using expert mode trading, you can change them on 

any individual order prior to submitting the order.

5.6 Limits Tab

The Pick limit types displayed by limit monitor... button controls which limit types are 

displayed in the Limit Monitor by default.

The second option deals with limit monitor alerts. If enabled, you will receive alert 

popups and visual feedback on your Dealing window when you get close to your credit 

limits. The alert popups, as well as the max buy and max sell fields in the dealing room 

tiles, will display with a yellow background if you have passed the first threshold and a 

red background if you have passed the second threshold. For example, with the 

threshold values above (75% and 95%), if you have used 80% of your credit, the “max 

buy” and “max sell” fields will display with a yellow background.
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6 Other System Features

6.1 Alert Popup

An alert popup window will appear in the lower right-hand corner of your screen when 

you receive an alert message. If you are using multiple monitors, the popup will appear 

on the monitor most recently used.

Note that there are two buttons shown for this particular alert; not all alerts will have 

these buttons. The “magnifying glass” button shown will take the user to the relevant 

Tool or Switchboard window where the user can take further action related to the alert.

The “trash can” button shown at right will dismiss the popup.

Most informational alert messages, such as notification of successful login or an 

upcoming room roll, are only displayed for a short period of time and do not need to be 

dismissed manually.

6.2 Trades You May Have Missed

Normally, 360TGTX assumes that you are watching your screen and will know when you 

have traded. But if your computer hangs or your network connection goes down within 

60 seconds of your last trade, then 360TGTX requests an “Acknowledgement” which is 

simply a way of making sure you saw the fill.

Note that these are good trades whether you acknowledge them or not!

If you see the alert message below when you log in, then you need to acknowledge 

some trades; click the magnifying-glass button or select File, Trades You May Have 

Missed.
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6.3 Changing Your Password

You can and should change your password periodically by selecting Change Password

from the File menu and following the dialog prompts. 360TGTX passwords must 

conform to the complexity rules indicated on the screen.

The new password will take effect immediately. Your current session will remain 

connected, but if you were connected from elsewhere using the same username, that 

session will be logged out and the new password must be entered.

6.4 Data Browser

The Data Browser allows you to view complete information for objects stored in the 

360TGTX system. For example the page below illustrates how some of the trade 

identifiers such as UTI and deal number differ for the various participants in a multi-hop 

trade. 

To open a Data Browser:
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• Anywhere you see a blue-underlined 

hyperlink, it opens a new Data

Browser window with the details of 

the object you selected. 

• The Data Browser is similar to a web 

browser. Each object in the 360TGTX

system has a corresponding address.

For example, if you have placed order 

#11534 you can type “/Order:11534” 

in the text box at the top right of the 

window and hit Enter.

• The details of each object will contain 

a number of hyperlinks to other 

objects. You can click on any 

hyperlink to see the details of 

another object. This works in the 

same way as clicking on a link in a 

web page. The Back and Forward

buttons at the top of the window 

perform the same functions as the 

corresponding buttons in a web browser.

The Home button at the top of the window will display the information for your current 

session record, which is a good starting point for browsing information about your 

360TGTX credit node. To browse transaction details, click on the hyperlinks under either 

the UTI or Txn Key column in a Trades or Trade Query tool window.

6.5 Log Messages

To open the Log Messages shown at right, select the Windows menu and choose Log 

Messages. To toggle the timestamps between GMT or Local time, click the column 

header. Click the black arrow to expand a multi-line message. The right-click menu 

includes a ‘copy’ function in case you need to send unusual messages to 360TGTX

personnel for support purposes.

6.6 Logout and Exit

You can log out by doing any of the following:

• Select File, Logout (a new login window will appear) 

• Select File, Exit

• Type Alt-F4
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• Close (not just minimize) all 360TGTX windows.