The terminal

The terminal is the screen you trade from. This page goes through it from top to bottom: the top bar, the market switcher, the market header, the widgets in the middle, and the bottom bar where you manage layouts.

The top bar

The top bar's left side links to Terminal and Portfolio. The page you're on shows in bold. See Portfolio for the Portfolio page.

The right side holds, in order, the account picker, the value figure, the bell and your avatar. On a narrow screen, a search icon before them opens the market switcher.

The account picker

The picker shows the selected account's exchange logo and name. A paper account has a Paper badge. Hover the badge to read "Paper account: simulated fills on live market data, no venue orders".

Click the picker to open its menu. Accounts are grouped by exchange, and a check marks the selected one. Add or manage accounts at the bottom opens the Accounts sheet. See Connect an exchange.

If you have no accounts, the picker is a Connect exchange button.

The account you pick is the one the terminal trades and shows. The market switcher lists that account's markets. Aura saves your choice as soon as you make it.

A red dot beside an account means it's disconnected, and its menu row shows the reason in red. A row that reads Reconnecting… belongs to an account whose connection dropped. See Connection status.

The value figure

The dollar figure is the value of your live accounts: their balances plus the unrealized PnL of open positions, in USD. Paper accounts aren't counted.

Click it for the breakdown. The panel is headed Net worth · live accounts. It has one row per exchange, and you can expand a row to see each coin's total with its USD value beneath, and one Unrealized PnL row with each coin's PnL and their USD total.

Some figures come with a note:

The bell

The bell lists your latest finished orders, and a number on it counts those that finished since you last opened it. See The bell.

The user menu

Click your avatar to open the user menu. It shows your name and email, then:

Switching markets

The market switcher is a panel that lists the markets your selected account can trade. There are four ways to open it:

• Click the pair name in the market header. Click it again to close the panel.
• Press ⌘K, or Ctrl+K.
• Type a letter or digit while no field is focused. The character becomes the start of your search.
• On a narrow screen, tap the search icon in the top bar.

Tabs

The panel opens on All. The tabs are ★ Watchlist, All, and then Spot, Perps and Futures. Each type tab appears only if your account has markets of that type.

With nothing typed, All lists your starred markets under Watchlist, then the rest under All markets. Both groups are in alphabetical order.

Search

Type in Search markets to rank the tab's markets against what you typed. An exact pair comes first, then pairs on that base coin, then pairs that start with your text. A pair typed without its separator, such as btcusdt, still finds it.

Rows

Each row has a star, the coin's icon, the pair and a type chip: Spot, Perp, Inv perp or Future. The columns are Last and 24h, and Vol when the panel is wide enough. A check marks the market you're on. The footer counts the markets listed.

Keys

Clicking outside the panel also closes it.

Stars and the watchlist

You can star a market from the market switcher, the market header or the Watchlist widget. A hollow star reads "Add to watchlist" on hover, and a filled one reads "Remove from watchlist".

Your stars are saved to your Aura profile, so they follow you to other browsers.

The Watchlist widget lists your starred markets in the order you starred them. Click a row to switch to that market. A starred market your selected account can't trade is hidden until you select an account that can.

The market header

The market header runs across the screen above the widgets. It shows the pair name, a star and the last price, then the day's statistics. Click the pair name to open the market switcher.

Derivative markets add more:

When the figures may be out of date, the price and stats dim, and the price reads "may be stale" on hover. See Connection status.

Widgets

The middle of the screen is a dock of widgets. Chart, Order Book, Trades and Execution work on the market in the header. Orders and Account show the whole account selected in the picker, on every market.

Chart

The chart has six timeframes: 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h and 1D. It opens on 1m.

Its header holds the timeframe, chart type, volume placement, volume profiles, indicators, Split and chart settings. When the chart is too narrow for all of them, the rest move under ⋯. A rail down the side holds the crosshair, the drawing tools and a screenshot button.

Indicators adds SMA, EMA, RMA, RSI, ATR, VWAP, Bollinger Bands, MACD and Stochastic, each with its own settings. VWAP starts again each day at 00:00 UTC.

The chart saves what you set up on it as you go: the timeframe, chart type, volume placement, profiles, indicators, settings and the split. Changing market or timeframe keeps them, and they come back when you reload or sign in elsewhere. Drawings are saved per market: each market keeps its own.

Split opens a second chart of the same market beside the first, on 1D to start. On a narrow chart it opens underneath instead. Drag the divider to resize the two. The second chart has its own timeframe, indicators and settings, saved apart from the first, but no drawing rail. Close it with × in its header, or click Split again.

Profiles shows volume by price, estimated from the bars: Per candle, Visible range or Per session. A session is one calendar day in the chart's time zone.

Double-click a candle to open its breakdown beside the chart: its prices, its volume by price, and its volume over time in smaller bars. On 1m the chart has no smaller bars, so a candle can't be broken down.

Scroll back in time and the chart loads older history. Its time axis uses the time zone you choose in Settings.

Order Book

The book lists levels with Price, Size and a running Total, behind depth bars. Sizes and totals start in the market's quote currency, USDT on BTC-USDT for example. The Sizes in switch above the columns changes them to the base coin, BTC, and back. Aura remembers your pick for each market, and Trades uses it too. A perpetual or future shows sizes the same way, never in contracts. A size under 0.005 keeps two significant digits, such as 0.00012, rather than showing as 0.00. Between the asks and the bids are the midpoint and the spread, in price and in basis points. A bar at the bottom shows each side's share of the resting quantity across the levels shown.

Trades

The tape lists each trade's time, price and size. The size is in the same currency as the order book's, with the same Sizes in switch above its columns. The Time header names the time zone, and each price is colored by the side that took liquidity.

Account

The Account widget has three tabs. A tab with rows shows how many:

• Balances: each asset's Total, Available, Reserved and USD value. Where the account owes in a coin, lines under its Total show what it owes. See Portfolio.
• Positions: open positions, with a Close button on each row. See Positions.
• Margin: one card per margin pool, named by its coin and led by its logo, by its market for a pool that belongs to one market, or Account for a pool that covers the whole account in USD. Each card shows the pool's Equity, its Maintenance margin and the margin Used, each with a bar and its percentage of the equity, and what is Available. The bars are marked at 35% and 65%, where a pool turns Moderate and Elevated. Every figure is in the pool's coin. With no pool in use, the tab reads No margin in use.

Tables

The tables in the widgets work the same way:

• Click a column header to sort. The first click sorts descending, the second ascending, and the third clears the sort. Balances opens sorted by USD value. Positions can't be sorted.
• Drag the edge of a column header to resize it. Double-click the edge to reset its width.
• In the Orders and Watchlist tables, drag a column header to move the column.

Aura saves the sort, column order and widths of the Orders and Watchlist tables to your profile. The Account tables return to their defaults when the terminal reloads.

How figures are shown

The Orders widget, the order sheet, the Account widget and the Portfolio page show each figure at the precision of its market:

The dollar coins are USD, USDC, USDT, DAI, USDP and TUSD. A figure that isn't cut is rounded to the nearest, a half rounding away from zero. A figure that isn't zero never shows as zero: one that would keeps two significant digits, such as 0.0032.

When a figure shows fewer digits than its exact value, hover it to see the exact value. An order on a market the account no longer lists shows its figures the same way as a coin that isn't a dollar coin.

Arranging widgets

You can move, resize, stack and remove widgets. Each widget has a tab with its name.

• Move a widget by dragging its tab. Drop it on the edge of another widget to place it beside that widget. Drop it in the middle to stack it there as a tab.
• Resize by dragging the divider between two widgets. A widget can't be smaller than 220 by 140 pixels.
• Switch between stacked widgets by clicking their tabs.
• Remove a widget with the × on its tab. The × shows on the active tab, and on other tabs when you hover them.

Adding a widget

1. Drag the Widget button from the bottom bar onto the dock.
2. Drop it where you want the widget: on an edge to place it beside another, or in the middle to stack it as a tab.
3. A New Widget panel opens under Add a widget. Click the widget you want.

Layouts

A layout is an arrangement of widgets. The terminal comes with one built-in layout, Simple, and you can create your own.

Simple puts the ticket (Execution) on the left, the full height of the screen. To its right, Order Book sits beside the Chart, with Orders and Account below them. Trades is a tab behind Order Book, and Watchlist is a tab behind Orders. Simple is sized to your window when it's first built, so the ticket's order button shows on a laptop screen too.

Creating a layout

1. Click + beside the layout names in the bottom bar.
2. In Create layout, enter a Layout name of up to 32 characters.
3. Click Create layout.

The new layout starts empty, with one Add Widget panel. Pick a widget there, then add more with the Widget button.

You can create up to 8 layouts. Each name must be different from the others, ignoring case.

Note: The terminal has no control to rename or delete a layout you've created.

Switching and saving

Click a layout's name in the bottom bar to switch to it.

Aura saves every change to a layout as you make it: a move, a resize, an added or removed widget. It also saves which layout you're on. Pending changes are saved before the page closes.

Your layouts, stars, table settings, selected account and time zone are kept on your Aura profile, not in the browser, so they follow you to other browsers and devices.

Resetting Simple

To put Simple back the way it started:

1. Open the Layout menu at the left of the bottom bar.
2. Choose Reset layout to default.
3. Confirm with Reset layout.

Your arrangement is discarded and can't be recovered. Simple is built again for your window's current size. The reset is available for Simple only, since a layout you create has no default to return to.

When saving stops

If your saved layouts don't load, the terminal tells you: "Your saved layout and preferences didn't load. Changes in this tab won't be saved. Reload to try again." Click Reload to try again.

If you sign in or out in another tab, this tab stops saving and says "You signed in or out in another tab, so this tab can no longer save its layout and preferences." Click Reload to continue.

The bottom bar

The bottom bar runs along the foot of the screen. From left to right: