# OptimusFLOW ## OptimusFLOW - [Welcome to OptimusFLOW Help](https://help.optimusflow.app/master.md): Here you’ll find all the detailed documentation for OptimusFLOW features, learn how to create and customize your Workspace, understand all settings, get to know advanced features, and more - [Getting started](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started.md) - [First Time Users](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/first-time-users.md): Take a look at the process that first time users should follow when first getting started with Optimus Flow. - [Control center](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/control-center.md): Get to know how to use and manage the Control center which is the starting panel of Optimus Flow. - [Workspaces, Binds, Groups](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/workspaces-binds-groups.md): Create the best trading environment, based on your own preferences. Use panels, Binds, and Groups under one Workspace - [Templates](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/templates.md): Customize the panel as you need and save it as a Template for quick use for other trading instruments - [Set as Default](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/set-as-default.md): Set as Default option allows to customize the panel and save its settings by default. Each newly opened panel of this type will apply the saved settings. - [Symbols lookup](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/instruments-lookup.md): Symbols lookup manager allowing to search and select any available symbol from active connections - [Table management](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/table-management.md): Get to know how to add or remove columns in the table, sort and filter data, set alerts and actions - [Backup & restore manager](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/backup-and-restore-manager.md): Backup & restore manager plugin allows to keep your settings safe and restore them in case of troubles with the application. - [General settings](https://help.optimusflow.app/getting-started/general-settings.md): General settings — is a screen, where you can set up the most common behavior of the whole OptimusFLOW application. - [Connections](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections.md) - [Connections manager](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connections-manager.md): The Connections manager allows users to select from available integrations and connect to them using your trading account. This window will automatically open upon platform launch. - [Connection to Rithmic](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connection-to-rithmic.md): Rithmic technology provides access for trading futures and options on CME, CBOT, NYMEX and other exchanges. Full market depth, reliable data and great execution are main features of Rithmic. - [Connection to Ironbeam (Certigo)](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connection-to-ironbeam-certigo.md): The Ironbeam (Certigo) connection provides access to Futures trading on the CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX and Coinbase Derivatives (formerly FairX) exchanges. - [Connection to CQG](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connection-to-cqg.md): CQG technology provides access for trading futures and options on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, EUREX, ICE, and CBOE. - [Connection to Paper to Trader dxFeed](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connection-to-paper-to-trader-dxfeed.md): The Paper to Trader dxFeed connection provides access to a risk-free Simulated environment for paper trading on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX futures. - [Connection to Rithmic Prop](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connection-to-rithmic-prop.md): OptimusFlow enables Rithmic users with evaluation prop firm accounts to connect and trade using their accounts on Optimus Flow by purchasing an optional license. - [Connection to OANDA](https://help.optimusflow.app/connections/connection-to-oanda.md): This guide helps you in a few simple steps to configure the connection to OANDA with the correct settings. - [Trading Journal](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-journal.md): Customers of Optimus Futures get FREE access to our latest tool – A TRADING JOURNAL with platform-sync technology. - [Analytics panels](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels.md) - [Chart](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart.md): Learn how to launch and configure the chart panel. What types of charts are available in the platform? How to activate volumetric analysis tools? Get to know about overlays, indicators and drawings. - [Chart types](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types.md): Select various chart types and styles that the most suite for your trading approach - [Renko](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/renko.md) - [Heiken Ashi](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/heiken-ashi.md) - [Kagi](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/kagi.md) - [Points & Figures](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/points-and-figures.md) - [Range bars](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/range-bars.md) - [Line break](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/line-break.md) - [Volume Bars](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-types/volume-bars.md): Chart type Volume Bars are built based on volume data — tick or exchange volume when available. Time is not involved in this aggregation. - [Chart overlays](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/chart-overlays.md) - [Technical indicators](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators.md): Get to know how to add technical indicators to chart and manage them in one click. - [Oscillators](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators.md) - [Aroon Indicator](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/aroon-indicator.md) - [Moving Average Convergence/Divergence](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/moving-average-convergence-divergence.md) - [Awesome Oscillator](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/awesome-oscillator.md) - [Accelerator Oscillator](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/accelerator-oscillator.md) - [%R Larry Williams](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/r-larry-williams.md) - [Momentum](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/momentum.md) - [Rate of Change](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/rate-of-change.md) - [Commodity Channel Index](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/oscillators/commodity-channel-index.md) - [Moving averages](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/moving-averages.md) - [Exponential Moving Average](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/moving-averages/exponential-moving-average.md) - [Simple moving average](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/moving-averages/simple-moving-average.md) - [Volatility](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/volatility.md) - [Average True Range](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/volatility/average-true-range.md) - [Standard deviation](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/volatility/standard-deviation.md) - [Trend](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/trend.md) - [ZigZag](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/trend/zigzag.md) - [Volume](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/volume.md) - [Delta Flow](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/technical-indicators/volume/delta-flow.md): Delta Flow indicator describes the impact of the aggressive orders on the market price through Delta value. - [Drawing tools](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/drawing-tools.md) - [Volume Analysis Tools | Volume Profiles | Footprint chart | VWAP](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/volume-analysis-tools.md): Volume analysis is a powerful trading technique that allows analyzing the distribution of the trading volume at each price level at a certain period of time. - [Cluster chart](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/volume-analysis-tools/cluster-chart.md): Cluster or Footprint chart is a professional analytical tool that shows OHLC prices and trading volume on a single chart. - [Volume profiles](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/volume-analysis-tools/volume-profiles.md): Volume Profile displays the trading activity over a specific time period at certain price levels. - [Time statistics](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/volume-analysis-tools/time-statistics.md): Time Statistics as a part of Volume analysis tools provides volume data in a table form for every single bar on the chart. - [Time histogram](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/volume-analysis-tools/time-histogram.md): Time Histogram tool shows the volume data as a vertical histogram for each bar. Thanks to this, you can visually compare the size of volume bars relative to each other. - [Historical Time & Sales](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/volume-analysis-tools/historical-time-and-sales.md) - [Power Trades](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/power-trades.md) - [VWAP | Volume Weighted Average Price](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/chart/vwap.md): Volume Weighted Average Price shows a fair price of an asset and based on a trading volume. - [Watchlist](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/watchlist.md): Watchlist panel shows brief pricing information on selected instruments, which you can group into lists - [Time & Sales](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/time-and-sales.md): Time and sales panel shows all executed trades for selected trading instrument in table form and provides details for each trade including date, time, price, quantity, and trade direction. - [Price Statistic](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/price-statistic.md): The panel aggregates the volume data for each price for a selected period of time. - [DOM Surface](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/dom-surface.md): It's an advanced Order Flow Surface panel that shows past and current liquidity in a Heatmap view. Actual trades are represented as Volume Circles with corresponded sizes. - [Option Analytics](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/option-analytics.md): Option Analytics panel allows options traders to see prices, Greeks, build and analyze risk profiles - [TPO Profile Chart](https://help.optimusflow.app/analytics-panels/tpo-chart.md): See the price distribution during the specified time via the TPO Profile (known as Market Profile®) & understand at which levels the price has spent the most time - [Trading panels](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels.md) - [Order Entry](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/order-entry.md): Order Entry allows to create trading orders with different conditions, such as order quantity, price, side, order type and submit them on the market. - [Order Types](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/order-entry/order-types.md) - [DOM Trader](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/dom-trader.md): DOM panel shows the number of buy and sell orders placed at various price levels around the current price for a particular instrument - [Market depth](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/market-depth.md): Market Depth is a professional trading panel that provides single-click order entry for an instrument while displaying market liquidity. - [Trading simulator](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/trading-simulator.md): OptimusFLOW provides a Trading simulator, the excellent trading tool that allows emulating the execution of orders under any connection, including those that do not allow trading. - [Market Replay (History Player)](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/history-player.md): Market Replay is a “history player” that lets you to test nearly any trading strategy with the ability to study your errors and seek out adjustments. - [FX Cell](https://help.optimusflow.app/trading-panels/fx-cell.md): The panel shows the best bid/ask price for a certain instrument and allows to place a market order at these prices - [Portfolio panels](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels.md) - [Positions](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels/positions.md): Positions panel displays an extended information about all currently opened positions, their P/L and prices - [Working Orders](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels/working-orders.md) - [Trades](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels/trades.md) - [Orders History](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels/orders-history.md) - [Synthetic Symbols](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels/synthetic-symbols.md) - [Historical Symbols](https://help.optimusflow.app/portfolio-panels/historical-symbols.md): Historical Symbols panel is designed to import historical data from third-party data providers to OptimusFLOW with performing a subsequent technical analysis or backtesting. - [Information panels](https://help.optimusflow.app/informational-panels.md) - [Account info](https://help.optimusflow.app/informational-panels/account-info.md) - [Symbol Info](https://help.optimusflow.app/informational-panels/symbol-info.md) - [Event Log](https://help.optimusflow.app/informational-panels/event-log.md) - [RSS](https://help.optimusflow.app/informational-panels/rss.md) - [Reports](https://help.optimusflow.app/informational-panels/reports.md) - [Miscellaneous](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels.md) - [History Exporter](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels/history-exporter.md) - [Market heat map](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels/market-heat-map.md): A market heat map represents real-time data in the form of tiles that are automatically sorted by volume or price change - [Stat matrix](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels/stat-matrix.md) - [Exchange times](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels/exchange-times.md) - [Quote Board](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels/quote-board.md) - [Excel and RTD function](https://help.optimusflow.app/miscellaneous-panels/excel-rtd-trading.md) - [Algo](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo.md): Create different trading scripts such as indicators and strategies. No need to study a proprietary language or development environment — use well-known practices used by developers all over the world - [Introduction](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/introduction.md): Create indicators and strategies, as well as platform extensions: plugins, Custom columns, connectors with brokers etc - [Install for Visual Studio](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/installing-visual-studio.md): How to install Visual Studio and OptimusFLOW Algo extension, and create your own indicators and strategies - [Simple Indicator](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/simple-indicator.md): In this topic we will show you how simple is writing indicators in OptimusFLOW - [Input Parameters](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/input-parameters.md): Modify your indicators or strategies behavior using a set of Input parameters - [Built-In indicators access](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/built-in-indicators.md): Use the results of 50+ built-in indicators of OptimusFLOW in your strategies and indicators - [Indicator with custom painting (GDI)](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/indicator-with-custom-painting-gdi.md): Draw any graphical objects on the chart using the GDI+ library - [Using markers with indicators](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/using-markers-with-indicators.md): Mark some specific point or set of points on indicator's line - [Adding a custom indicator to Watchlist](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/custom-indicator-to-watchlist.md): How to add a custom indicator to Watchlist panel properly? This guide will show you a useful method using which you can easily add an indicator. - [Downloading history](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/downloading-history.md): Using historical data for indicator or strategy calculations - [Simple strategy](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/simple-strategy.md): How to create you first strategy and run it the OptimusFLOW trading platform - [Access to trading portfolio](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/access-to-trading-portfolio.md): Access an info about current opened positions, placed orders or history of your trades - [Trading operations](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/trading-operations.md): Placing a different type of orders, modifying and canceling them using OptimusFLOW API - [Example: Simple Moving Average](https://help.optimusflow.app/quantower-algo/simple-moving-average-example.md) --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. 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