PrimeTrade FX User Guide

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1 Global Markets 3Q 2018 PrimeTrade FX For Institutional Clients only. This material does not constitute as investment research. For the full legal disclaimer, please refer to the end of this document.

2 Getting started PrimeTrade is a multi-asset electronic trading platform which includes Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals (PM), Treasury Bonds, and Listed Derivatives products. 1. Login to PrimeTrade with your designated username and password Choose the preferred colour scheme, (Classic, Midnight, Eclipse) at login page. 3. Click Account (located on the top right corner) to setup Default Accounts. These are the booking accounts for AES FX, FX and PM Click icon (located on the top left corner) to customize Portfolio, a set of currency pairs for a workspace. Select a Portfolio from the drop down menu or click New Portfolio to create a new workspace. Highlight a currency pair in the Products column and use left arrow to add and right arrow to move. Click Apply to save the customization Click cog icon (located on the top left corner) > FX > Preferences to launch FX Preferences. Customize the behaviour and appearance and click OK to save the customization 5 Key Information See page 10 for the PrimeTrade installation link, password reset and security settings. 2

3 Widgets Adding a new trade widget Right click in a workspace and select Add Click and Deal Product. Select a currency pair and click OK. Customizing widget layout Right click on the workspace and select "Layout. 1. Select Ascending to sort widgets in ascending alphabetical order. 2. Select Descending to sort widgets in descending alphabetical order. 3. Select Free Style to move widget anywhere in the workplace. 3

4 Widgets Customizing execution preference 1. Right click on a Trade Widget to change font sizes, cursor style and execution style Execution allow you to switch between 1-click and 2-click to execute trade Click Mode Green border Click once to execute a trade Click Mode Blue border The first click on the widget changes the background from blue to green. It will stay primed for 5 seconds. Click again to execute the trade before it resets to blue. 4

5 Executing a trade Click & Deal (Streaming Price) Simply specify the trade notional and click on the price to execute Spot trades. 1. In the notional field of the Trade Widget, specify the trade amount. K represents thousand and M to represents million. (i.e. 2M = 2,000,000). 2. Notional amount for currency indicated at bottom left corner. Click to switch to the counter currency. 3. Hover cursor over the price to reveal tooltip for trade details. 4. Single/Double click on respective rate to execute. 5. Price Ladder This is useful when executing Spot trades with different amount on Streaming Price. Click on default notional to modify. 1 5 Example: Buy 5M EUR against USD value Spot 6. Forward/Swap Ladder This is useful when executing Fwd (Outright) and Swap trades on Streaming Price. Click Fwd and Swap and Fwd/Swap to switch between. Swap trade is between spot date and the tenor chosen. Click on tenor code to modify or select a broken date. Available standard tenor codes: ON, TN, SPOT, SN, SW, 2W,1M 11M, 1Y 6 Example: Fwd- Sell 1M EUR against USD value 3month Swap S/B 1M EUR against USD spot/3month Hover cursor over the price to reveal tool tip for trade details. Single/Double click on respective rate on the ladder to execute. 5

6 Executing a trade Request for Stream (RFS) RFS can be used for executing Spot, Outright, Even/Uneven Swap by requesting the price each time. Start by right click in workspace and select Add RFS Product to bring up RFS Trade Widget. Then Select the currency pair. Submitting an RFS trade 1. Click on the menu icon to switch between Outright/Swap. 2. Select a currency pair (e.g. EURUSD) and specify notional amount. 3. Click on the tenor code or calendar date to specify value date(s). 4. To execute an Uneven Swap, specify different notional amounts on the second leg. 5. Click the play icon to initiate Request for Stream. 6. Single/Double click on Buy/Sell price to execute. Trade recap 1. Trade recap pop up is default to appear after trade execution. To remove, uncheck Click and Deal Recap in FX Preferences to disable. 2. Trade Recap displays the status of the trade, either Trade is Done or Trade Not Done. 3. Click OK to clear the prompt, or use the and Print buttons to utilize those functions. Trade/Rate Notification Trade Notification sends alert delivered to your designated address. This is a two-step process: 1. Setup Notification Preferences. Click cog icon > User > Notifications Input designated Address 2. Setup Event Alert Preferences. Click cog icon > Alerts > Manage Alerts. Click Add Alerts button at the left bottom corner Alternatively, right click on a Trade Widget and select Add Rate Alert Configure conditions for alerts to be triggered in the Event Alert Properties window 6

7 Orders AES FX Order Prime Trade offers AES FX Order executions. Advanced Execution Services - AES FX Credit Suisse AES FX is a market leading* suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global trading in foreign exchange markets. Our wide variety of algorithmic trading strategies aim to help clients reduce market impact, improve performance versus benchmarks and focus on the big picture Please contact your Credit Suisse sales representative for further details: list.aex-fx-sales@credit-suisse.com FX Order Types of FX Order available on PrimeTrade: Take Profit OCO - One Cancel Other Stop Loss Bid/Offer If Done, Take Profit Stop Loss Mid If Done, Stop Loss How to place FX Order 1. Launch FX Order window by one of the following methods: Right click on a Trade Widget and select FX Order. Click Orders button in a Trade Widget. (Tick Show button for Orders in FX Preferences.) 2. Select the order type, enter your order details. Specify that the order is good until cancel, good until end of today or good until a specific date/time. Click SUBMIT when done. 3. To place the order, click OK in the Order Recap appears after the submission or click Dismiss to cancel. 4. Refer to the Orders Blotter to verify the status of the orders. 7

8 Orders Amending Orders 1. From the Blotter select the live order you want to amend and click on the Amend button. You can also right click on the live order and select Amend from the menu. 2. Make any changes and put in a remark and click the Amend button to submit changes. Field Amendable Comments Type N (TP / SL / OCO/ If done etc.) CCY Pair N Traded CCY Account N Y In the case of If Done orders, if the first leg is executed already, the Account can no longer be amended for the second leg. Buy / Sell (Side) Y Trade Direction of the order Amount Y Notional Amount of the order Rate Y S/L Rate or T/P Rate Time In forced values Y Good until, Region, Date, End Time Remarks *Mandatory Y Comments for order amend 8

9 Blotters Blotters There are 3 blotters: Trades, Orders and Positions. The Message tab shows any communication from Credit Suisse regarding system maintenance. Trades Blotter Within the Trades Blotter, there are 5 default tabs All Trades, Spot, Fwd & Swaps, FX Fills and AES. If you wish to apply a different filtering rule, click New. Number of days for the trades to be displayed on blotter can be changed from FX Preference. Orders Blotter It shows the status of Orders. Live orders are BLUE, filled orders are GREEN, and expired/cancelled orders are RED. Positions Blotter This blotter provides the consolidated view of the position per CCY Pair, Value Date and Account. Custom Functionality An additional feature allows you to undock a blotter and its specific tabs for your convenience. Import File Batch Trade Execution This feature allows you to execute multiple trades in a batch. Supported trade types are FX Spot, Outright, Swap, Orders and AES FX Orders. The below link provides more detail of the file import feature as well as downloadable sample file. How to Import File 1. Edit the file and save as.csv file. Please note the Account field is case sensitive. 2. Click Import File in Blotter. Browse to your saved file and click Import. 3. Click Submit All Rows, or select a subset of rows to execute and then click Submit Selected Rows to execute trades. Executed trades will appear in the Trades Blotter. 4. Orders successfully imported will appear in Orders Blotter. 9

10 Key information PrimeTrade installation Link Changing / Resetting Passwords 1. Click cog icon then > User > Change Password 2. In the reset password window, enter the current password and specify a new password (re-entering the new password). 3. For queries, contact Business/Trading support: list.gfx-efx-bus-mgt@credit-suisse.com Set Security Question 1. Security Question Enables you to reset your password. 2. Select cog icon > User > Set security question 10

11 User screen lock feature PrimeTrade provides a configurable screen lock feature. The PrimeTrade application screen will be locked automatically if there is no mouse or keyboard action by the user after a user-configurable time interval (default timeout is 20 minutes). Users can enable/disable this feature and/or amend the timeout interval if desired. Unlocking PrimeTrade Users can click anywhere within the PrimeTrade application window to unlock the screen by entering their password at the prompt. Steps to enable/disable the screen lock feature 1. Go to Menu > User > Screen lock 1 2. Modify Lockdown Settings window will appear. If Inactivity lock enabled checkbox is ticked, then screen lock feature is enabled Specify the timeout period in minutes (as shown it is set to 26 minutes). Minimum value is 20 minutes. If Inactivity lock enabled checkbox is not ticked, then screen lock feature is disabled. 3 11

12 Contact and support Technical Support Singapore: Tokyo: London: New York: FX Client Services EMEA: AMER: APAC:

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