TWS for Beginners – Course Intro | Trading Lesson | Traders' Academy

Duration 2:23

Level Beginner

These lessons walk you through how to set up basic trades and how to configure your workspace to your satisfaction. You will learn how to configure the news panel to easily locate news and access available research from IBKR’s providers. Plus, we will help you get underway with several order types, chart configuration, creating watchlists and accessing portfolio information.

Study Notes:

Welcome to TWS for Beginners – a great place to start if you are new to the Trader Workstation also known as the TWS Mosaic platform! This course has been broken into a series of video lessons.

We will show you how the TWS Mosaic interface is comprised of several components critical to your trading activity – including the Monitor, Quote Details, Order Entry, Charts, News and Activity Monitor panels.

We will go into detail of the functions of each of the Mosaic panels, as well as show you ways in which you can successfully and easily navigate your way through them.

We will show you how to create a watchlist of specific asset classes, as well as how to configure the News panel to help you follow portfolio-related or stock-specific news.

Each lesson also has complementary Study Note, as well as additional relevant information.

Following the completion of this course, you should have a solid understanding of configuring TWS Mosaic according to your personal preferences, how to enter tickers and create your own orders.

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