Trading system Quik is an ideal tool for trading operations on stock market. It is highly valued by traders in many countries. This terminal provides the availability of exchange and over-the-counter trading in the context of real time.
Quick allows you to execute your trades, provides a connection with your own broker. The program is different high level data transfer speed and work without any interruptions.
Available charts of price changes.
A single cash equivalent for market trading.
A large number of parameters for technical analysis.
Availability of trading platforms, both Russian and foreign (for example, MMBB, WSE, NASDAO, etc.).
Customizing the Quick interface for yourself.
Trade automation and the ability to transfer transactions from any system.
Text chat provides communication with the broker, administration, and other traders.
Providing a unique service for programming trading robots for the system using the QPILE language (a product of our own development and implementation).
The terminal is compatible with all operating systems. Attached to it step-by-step instruction With detailed description all stages of work.
1. Reliable system of encryption and protection of the user's personal data.
2. A clear principle for creating and processing applications.
3. "Options Board" issues necessary information about fixed-term contracts.
4. The protocol for data transfer significantly reduces the speed and period of execution of applications.
5. You can work with the program using the "hot keys". This contributes to an increase in the pace of work and productivity.
The Quick trading system has one small drawback: a large number of windows, settings, tables. At first glance, this is a positive thing: it is possible to customize the program to suit your trading requirements.
However, for a beginner, such a variety of functions can lead to a stupor. The solution is simple: you should study detailed instructions for the user to feel "like a fish in water".
An important point for future traders: Quik displays any number of ticks on the trading chart, which helps to achieve successful results in short periods of time (frametime). This is the only trading terminal with this unique feature.
This article contains step-by-step instructions for mastering the QUIK program. The correct name of this program is a trading terminal, and in this article we will consider why an IIS owner needs it and how to use it.
Questions covered in this article:
QUIK is not the only terminal that an IIS owner can come across, there are also Transaq, FinamTrade, Smart X, ALOR-trade, but, as will be seen later, they all look alike and have the same functionality.
When an uninitiated person looks at the cockpit of a Boeing, he gets the feeling that ordinary person it's impossible to ever deal with it all.
When uninitiated people look at the operation of the terminal, they have the same feeling: something is blinking, some graphics - it fascinates and frightens at the same time.
This, according to inexperienced people, is the most difficult thing in working with securities - to master this program, to know where to click and understand what all these flashing numbers mean.
The reality is that it is very easy to master this program, but, most importantly, this knowledge has little to no effect on whether our investments will be successful or not.
The profitability of our operations depends primarily on our investments, and the QUIK terminal is just a tool that can help us in this (or, on the contrary, harm us, more on that below).
Therefore, the opinion of the layman that “learning to work with securities” means the same thing as “learning to work in the QUIK program” is wrong. Before the advent of the Internet, applications were submitted by phone, and this did not stop people from doing investments (Warren Buffett, etc.).
In general, learning how to work with QUIK is much easier than learning how to invest correctly.
Why QUIK is needed will be clear below, after we consider in detail the device of this program.
Trading functionality QUIK terminal(and any other) is divided into two groups:
The second group (“actions”) is quite simple and includes only the application functionality. We will talk about this in the practical part (below).
The first group of functions is the most voluminous; to facilitate understanding, it makes sense to refer to the diagram: 
The information that can be viewed through QUIK is conditionally divided into two main groups:
What do we need to know about our account? Of course, how much money we have at the moment, how many securities and how much they cost, what transactions were made on our account and what orders were placed.
As for information about the market, we would like to know the parameters of the stocks and bonds we are interested in: what is the price for them now, how many securities are in the minimum lot available for purchase, the maturity date of the bonds, how many securities can currently be bought on the stock exchange, etc. d.
The scheme given above will help to understand any terminal that the IIS owner will encounter and will make it easy to navigate and work with the terminals of Transaq, FinamTrade, Smart X, ALOR-trade and others.
Let's move on to the practical part.
For each broker, the procedure may differ in details, but in general it includes three stages:
The first two stages are usually the same for everyone. We find a section on the broker's website dedicated to the QUIK program.
Installation does not cause any difficulties for those who have previously used a computer, but depending on which broker we serve, there may be various options. Here is an example of installing QUIK for an IIS owner in Sberbank: 
If there are difficulties or some special installation parameters are required, it makes sense to read the installation instructions from the broker with which we want to use QUIK.
At this stage, you need to create a key pair to identify the user in the system. To do this, you need to run the key generation program: you need to go to the Windows program launch menu (Start-> Programs-> Quik -> Key generation program:
The path may differ from broker to broker, but you can always find this program through the Start menu.
At this stage, two keys will be created: public and secret. These keys are just files and we need to specify in which folder we will save them. Most likely, best solution it will simply leave the default path suggested by the key generation program.
Then you need to enter a password, and in the next step confirm it:
The next step is to confirm the parameters of the generated keys:
By clicking on the "Create" button, we will start the process of generating keys, using a random number generator. For his effective work you need to press the keys on the computer in a random order, you do not need to memorize them.
To generate random numbers, the program measures the time between keystrokes. Once the required amount of random information has been obtained, key generation begins:
The key generation process can take some time - up to several minutes. Upon completion, we will receive a confirmation window that the keys have been created:
As mentioned above, "keys" are files, in this case there will be two of them - public and secret keys (files). You can verify that they are available by opening the folder that we approved in the first step.
By default, these files are usually saved in the same folder where the QUIK program itself is installed, in the "keys" subfolder:
The public key is called "pubring.txk", we will need it at the next stage - the stage of registering keys.
For example, the path to the keys when installing QUIK from Sberbank looks like "C:\SBERBANK\QUIK_SMS\KEYS".
As a rule, in such a letter:
Sberbank, however, has recently automated the process of confirming keys and created a special form on the website through which you can send registration keys:
For VTB24, the instructions for registering keys are as follows:
If the broker did not receive a response about the successful registration of the keys within 24 hours, it makes sense to call and find out if the key has been received, registered, etc.
At VTB24, unfortunately, in order to register the keys, after confirmation by e-mail also to go to the bank office, which, of course, is very inconvenient. In Sberbank, you can receive confirmation of the key on the same day and immediately start using QUIK. For VTB24 clients, this procedure will take several days.
So, the program is installed, the keys are created and registered. Everything is ready to start working.
At the moment of our first launch of the program, we "get into the cockpit of a Boeing" (see above): incomprehensible graphics, signs, flashing numbers. How not to break or damage anything here:
The picture that you see at the very beginning may be like this:
In general, the starting picture can be anything - it depends on the version of the program and the broker. It doesn't matter to us, because we want to put things in order here, and leave only what we really need and at the same time understandable.
Let's remove everything unnecessary. To do this, here's what we'll do. Find the QUIK program tabs at the very bottom of the screen:
Let's delete them all. To do this, select each, press the right mouse button and select "delete":
Each time the program carefully warns us, so we confirm our actions:
When the last tab remains, the program will not let you delete it, we just need to close all the windows on it manually by clicking, as usual, on the crosses in the upper right corner of all open windows:
All this until there is only one tab left, on which there is not a single window left. We get a completely "clean slate":
We will start with this blank slate, and it will be much more visual than studying long instructions for days.
So, let's remember what a trading terminal is for:
Let's try to get information about our account: about the money and papers that are on it.
To do this, let's call our first tab - "account", for this you need to right-click on the tab and select "Rename":
Then we will enter a name for the new tab - "account".
Next, on the top toolbar, select "Create Window" and in the drop-down list we will sequentially open the three items that we need: 
It is with the help of these windows that we can get information about the money and securities in our account:
So, in the first window there is generalized information, we see the total amount of “free money + value of securities”.
In the second window from the top (“Table of limits for securities”) we will find information about the securities that we have on our account. In this case, as you can see in the screenshot, the portfolio contains OFZ bonds 26206 in the amount of 189 pieces.
In the third, lowest window, there is information about the amount of free money in our portfolio. In this case, it is clear that the portfolio contains 4402.08 rubles.
Well, now we more or less understand what we have on the account, now we will find out what current orders we have for making transactions and display a table of transactions.
Let's create a new tab, to do this, right-click on an existing tab and select "Add":
Let's call it "bids-deals", and then add two tables on this tab:
You get this picture:
If we do not have active orders and there were no deals on this day, then both tables will be empty - this is normal.
But now we have full control over our brokerage account:
Now let's see what information we can get about securities.
Suppose we are interested in all OFZs and, for example, 10 shares from the list (index) of MICEX10. We need to create two quote tables for OFZs and for stocks. First, let's create a new tab in the program again:
Let's call it "Quotes":
On this new tab, we will again have a clean space where we will now place our tables with quotes:
In the top menu, select "Create Window", and then "Current Trades":
Then another window will open for us, in which we will define the parameters of our table:
We will have two tables - one for shares from the MICEX10 index, and the other for OFZ.
So, first let's create a table for stocks. In the search box, enter the name of the stock we need:
Then we select the found stock in the list, click "add" and the stock appears in the field on the right:
We do this 10 times, adding all the necessary stocks, this list, and after that we will move on to selecting columns for our table:
For shares, it will be enough for us to know: the current price (the price of the last transaction on the market), what% of the increase or decrease in the share for today, how many shares are in the lot, select these parameters and confirm the creation of the table with the “Yes” button, this is how our table looks like:
Now let's create the same table for OFZ. The fact is that OFZ needs a different set of table columns, so it is much more convenient to create your own separate table for them.
Let's repeat the previous process, in the top toolbar, select "Create Window", then "Current Trades". This time, let's come up with our own name for the table, for example, "OFZ":
In the search window for the necessary instruments, enter “OFZ”, get a list of all available OFZ and select them all, and then transfer them to the field on the right with the “Add” button:
To select all OFZs (in the left window) and add them in one list at once, you need to select the first OFZ, hold down the SHIFT key and select the last OFZ from the list, then the entire list will be selected.
Now let's set up the columns of our table with OFZ, for this we go down a little lower and select from the list of "Available parameters" those indicated in the screenshot:
Why these particular fields? This is the most important and most important thing to know about OFZ: what is the yield, what is the ACI for the current day, when will the redemption be, what is the coupon size, when will the next coupon be paid.
This is how we should have a table:
And the windows will be arranged like this (windows can be moved within the program space):
What do we see? The information in the tables is sorted alphabetically (by the names of securities). If for stocks this sorting can be left, then for OFZs another criterion is needed.
There are two criteria for sorting OFZs:
Which of these criteria to make the key when sorting is up to everyone, and depends on the goals and technique of using OFZ in their portfolio.
Here, for example, is how to sort the table by profitability. To do this, select the heading of the desired column, then right-click and select "Sort by ..." in the drop-down list:
In this case, we will get a sorted table and an arrow in the sort column. By clicking on this arrow, you can change the sort direction (ascending or descending):
If we use the strategy, then we will be primarily interested in OFZs with maturity in the next 12 months, therefore, we will need to sort by the “To maturity” column:
If we implement the Coupon Combine technique, then we will need to sort OFZs by the dates of payment of the next coupons (we will talk about this technique in a separate article).
So, now we have a list of all OFZs available to us. But if the information from this table is not enough for us, we can obtain information separately for each of the instruments of interest to us.
To do this, select OFZ, right-click and select "Instrument Information" in the drop-down list:
We will receive an exhaustive list of systematized information about this security:
True, it is not immediately clear from this information what type of OFZ we are dealing with: a permanent coupon or a variable coupon, etc. To do this, again, you will have to use the bond screeners, which are described in the article:
Nevertheless, the information from these tables of the QUIK program is already enough to make most investment decisions.
So, in our QUIK program there are three tabs: account, orders-transactions, quotes. The collection of open windows and tabs is called "workspace".
Like everything else, the concept of workspaces is applicable to any trading terminal, not just the QUIK terminal.
Let's save the workspace:
Give it a name and save it:
That's it, now if we changed something, made a mistake, accidentally deleted it, etc. - we can always restore the saved position of all windows and tabs. You will need to do the reverse procedure: open the "System" tab, and in the drop-down list "Load settings from file".
The next time you open the program, the workspace we created will be loaded automatically. If this does not happen, you can load it manually:
And then select it by name.
Quik is a program that imports and edits videos taken with a GoPro camera. The program allows you to catalog all the videos transferred to the computer's memory, as well as make adjustments to them and mount a dynamic video with musical accompaniment.
For those who very quickly "clog" the memory card with video material, the function of automatically transferring content to the computer's hard drive every time you connect a GoPro camera will come in handy. When you launch Quik, you will see a window with a list of imported videos and a player that allows you to play any of them at any time by double-clicking. GoPro Plus subscribers will also be able to transfer videos to and from the cloud. This feature is not available in the free version. However, no one bothers you to find the video files on the disk and upload them to the storage that you usually use.
Now let's talk about the built-in video editor. There are not so many functions, but they are all quite interesting. For example, the editor allows you to make beautiful time-lapses, apply the effect of time dilation, color filters and other "chips". Of course, it is not devoid of standard features such as trimming and merging video clips. And of course, the developers simply could not help but add the ability to export to the editor finished works to social networks.
In addition to the two functions described above, Quik also performs a third - updating the "firmware" of the GoPro. Every time you connect a camera, the program looks for new version software and notifies the user of its presence. The update is installed automatically.
What is Quik? This is a software package that helps provide access to exchange / over-the-counter trading systems in real time. The software package includes a server part and workstations (terminals) of users that interact with each other via the Internet.
Setting the Current Design Table
Setting the order book
Setting up the order table and entering orders - first deals
Setting up tables to track securities, money, profit / loss
Setting charts, bookmarks
Making deals, adding labels, entering orders like stop, profit, trailing stop
Setting up the orders table and the deals table
Setting up and working with a chart, adding indicators
The distribution kit of the program contains default screen settings, which include the most commonly used tables, as well as two screen tabs that switch the layout of tables on the screen. The user can change the arrangement of tables on the computer screen. Window settings are automatically saved when you exit the program.
The functions that are available in a particular table are displayed in the context menu (which can be opened by right-clicking the mouse) and in the program menu (namely, in the "Tables" item).
The convenience of setting up all types of tables is provided by a button on the toolbar or a combination of "Ctrl" + "E".
Consider the main tables of the program:
| Table | Purpose | Menu item |
| current parameters | Shows the last values of the parameters in the process of trading on the exchange | Tables | current table |
| all transactions | Deals are presented for all instruments that were concluded by all participants in trading on the exchange | Tables | Table of all transactions |
| quotes | Shows a queue of buy-sell orders for a specific instrument | Double clicking the left mouse button in the Table of current parameter values |
| limits on securities | The available funds in securities for making transactions on stock exchange | Limits | Limits on securities |
| limits on money | Showing the available funds in money for making transactions on the stock exchange | Limits | Cash limits |
| applications | Introduced a register of own user applications | Dealer | Applications |
| deals | Register of user transactions | Dealer | Deals |
| stop orders | Reflects the status of execution of its stop orders | Dealer | Stop orders |
| Client portfolio | An estimate of the margin level and asset value is presented | Limits | Client portfolio |
| Graphs | Reflects the construction of graphs for the course of trading on the stock exchange | Data export | Charts | New chart |
To create a new window, select the appropriate item in the menu, for example, for a table with the current values of order parameters, select the item "Tables | Current Table".
In the window that opens, create a list of displayed columns by moving the necessary headers (move the headers from the list of available ones to another list - selected ones). In some tables, you can also specify a list of row headers. To make a choice, select the lines in the list and click the “add” button, or double-click on the selected line with the left mouse button. If the parameters are combined into a class (marked with a yellow “+” symbol located to the left of the name), to open the list of parameters, left-click on the “+” symbol.
Some types of tables allow you to limit the number of rows displayed using filters that set required parameters. You can set the filter by pressing the "..." button. After that, a window will open in which you should form a list of the parameters you have selected.
Note.
When creating a new table, the list of parameters that are used most frequently is selected by default for the main table types.
In the QUIK system, in almost all tables, it is possible to combine data from several classes at once (exchange modes, trading, etc.) within one table.
How to call the bookmark settings dialog? You need to press "Ctrl" + "B" or select the menu item "Windows | Make bookmarks. At the top of the left part of the window is a list of bookmarks, below it is a list of program windows shown on this tab. On the right, the program windows that are not attached to bookmarks are displayed, they are shown with any bookmark you select. General settings are located at the bottom of the window, they relate to the location of the bookmarks bar (bottom, top, right or left of the program windows) and the highlighting of the active bookmark.
If the data presented in the Table of Current Parameter Values is not used for plotting or exporting, you need to disable "Reception of missing data" (to do this, select the "Settings | Receiving data" item in the menu, deselect the "Receive missing data" checkbox).
Let's consider how to set a filter to receive information from the server for the Table with the current parameter values. You need to select the menu item "Communication | Lists. Then you should select in the "Classes of securities" list only those classes for receiving that are used. You can additionally limit the list of instruments and the list of parameters for each class by clicking the appropriate “set filter” buttons and setting up the lists of selected parameters (or securities).
It is better to close the quotes table (queue of orders) if it is not needed all the time for any instrument. It can be easily opened again if you double-click the left mouse button on the line of the Table with current parameter values that corresponds to the given tool.
The scheme of the transaction is as follows.
1. The broker determines for the client the balance of funds on the exchange that are available to him, and the client can make transactions within this amount. The balance of funds is expressed in money or securities and corresponds to the entire amount of funds that the client has deposited with the broker to conduct activities on the exchange (in the Table of Limits, this is the “Incoming Balance” parameter).
2. The client, independently choosing securities, sells and buys them on the exchange. Purchase/sale occurs by sending an application (instruction) to the broker using the QUIK system, in which an agreement is given to buy or sell securities on the terms specified in the instruction.
3. Order statuses are as follows: a) active - if the order is registered on the stock exchange, queued, but not yet executed / not completely executed. This application can either be removed or edited its conditions. When the application is partially satisfied, only its unfulfilled balance can be withdrawn; b) executed - if the condition of the order is fully satisfied, that is, one or several transactions are made on the conditions specified in the order. It is not possible to withdraw a completed application; c) withdrawn - if the user decides to cancel the application or change its conditions. When an order is edited, it is withdrawn from the exchange (in other words, it is removed from the order queue so that the order cannot be executed during the editing process), then a new order is generated with exactly the same conditions that the user can edit.
4. The broker can accept a stop order - an order from the client, which will be executed depending on the achievement of a certain level by the market price of the instrument. Two price values are specified in the stop order: 1) stop price - a condition of the type "the price of the last transaction is not less (not more than) a given value". The order is activated when the condition is met, that is, it will be sent to the exchange as a regular limit order; b) the price, which, when sent to the exchange, is indicated in the application
5. On the client's account, when entering an order, the funds necessary for its execution are blocked. As a rule, a deal is made if there are counter orders (for sale/buy) in the trading system that have mutually satisfying conditions. The Table of Deals shows the deals that were made at the request of the client.
To open the application input window, click the button on the toolbar or the F2 key. The application entry window can also be called by selecting the "New application" item from the context menu of most tables, or by double-clicking the left mouse button.
Mandatory fields of the application are given in the table.
| Required fields | Substitution of specific values | Key management |
| Tool | Values are substituted from the list by the first letters you type | |
| trading account | First in the list | Value substitution similar to above |
| Type of order (limit / market) | Selected "limited" by default | Not |
| Direction of operation (sale/purchase) | The action is configured for the Quotes Table - a quote operation is taken or counter to it | Selecting Tab, The direction of the operation is changed with the Space key |
| Price indicated per instrument unit | The value is taken from the selected table row | Select Tab," + », « - " - change by 1 minimum price step, " ctrl" and " + », « ctrl" and " - » - change by 10 minimum price steps |
| Quantity, lots | The default value is specified in the settings. For the Quote Table, you need to select the best value or quantity at a given price | «>», «<» - изменение на 1 лот, "Ctrl" and "<», «Ctrl» и «>» - change by 10 lots |
| Client code | default | Values are substituted by the first typed letters from the list |
The order table is designed to work with orders. In the "State" field of the table, the state of orders is indicated, which is additionally highlighted in font color: active orders are highlighted in red, executed orders in blue, and canceled orders in black. To remove an active order, double-click the right mouse button on the table line or press the key combination "Ctrl" + "D", and also click the button on the toolbar.
To cancel several orders with the same conditions, for example, all orders “for sale” for Sberbank, select the menu item “Dealer | Cancellation of orders" by condition or press "Shift" + "Alt" + "D". After that, a window will open in which you need to set the conditions for canceling orders, and then click the "Cancel orders" button.
A stop order is a pre-prepared limit order that is transferred to the trading exchange system when a condition (or stop price) occurs.
A stop order is used to limit the amount of losses when the prices of trades change in the opposite direction of expectations.
The stop price is a condition for the execution of an order, it can be represented as the limit value of the value of the last transaction on the instrument. Such an order is stored until the condition is met on the QUIK server.
The table of stop orders is necessary for working with stop orders, it displays all the statuses of execution of conditional orders. A stop order is considered executed (its status changes in the “Status” field) when the stop price condition occurs, at this moment a limited order is transferred to the trading exchange system, and the number of this order is displayed in the “Order number” field. The table of stop orders also additionally displays the result of processing by the QUIK program server and the trading system of a limited generated order (see the "Result" field) and the registration exchange number of the transaction taken from the Table of all transactions, the price of which justified the execution of the stop order (see fig. field "Deal conditions").
The QUIK system provides for the following types of conditional orders:
An additional parameter of the stop order is the expiration date, which takes one of the following values:
The QUIK system provides for the construction of the following basic chart options:
Consider the horizontal and vertical scales of the graph.
The horizontal scale can be changed by selecting values in the "Scaling" item of the context menu, or automatic selection is carried out with the selected "Auto" value.
The vertical scale of the graph can be adjusted automatically so that it occupies the entire plot area. You can change the relative size of several plotting areas in one chart at once (for example, for a volume chart and a price chart) by moving the separator bar between the areas with the mouse cursor. Similarly, you can move the vertical axes of the graphs.
Consider the functionality of working with charts.
Before setting up data export, you need to open MS Excel and load into this program a file into which you will transfer data.
Then, in the "Workbook" field, you need to specify the name of the file in the MS Excel program with its extension, for example, "Book1.xls".
The "Sheet" field specifies the name of the sheet in this file, for example, "Sheet1".
The fields “Upper left corner” are filled in the following way: the coordinates of the initial cell in the MS Excel table intended for data transfer are indicated: “Row” means the row number (should be counted from the top), “Column” means the column number (should be counted from the left).
The "Start Output" button launches dynamic data output to MS Excel from the specified table.
The started export process will be carried out automatically. When you click the "Stop output" button, the display of data from the table stops.
The purpose of the "Withdraw Now" button is to display data once.
The Close button closes the window.
By clicking the "Cancel" button, you will close the window without saving changes in the settings.
In order not to depend on the key floppy, you should:
Go to the C:\Program Files\QUIK directory, then open the QRYPTO text file (or CFG file), then change the path, pointing to the place on the hard disk where the keys will be located.
pubring=a:\pubring.txk (for example on c)
secring=a:\secring.txk (for example on c)
NewPubring=a:\pubring.txk
New Securing=a:\secring.txk
After that, the keys will be loaded from the hard drive.
To copy the appearance of the program (configuration file) from one PC to another, you need:
Enter the C:\Program Files\QUIK directory, copy the info.wnd text file to the clipboard, then paste it into the similar C:\Program Files\QUIK directory on another computer.
