The Terminal & Workspaces

The terminal is a single screen made up of panels. Each panel is one module — a chart, an option chain, a watchlist, and so on. You decide which panels are on screen and how they're arranged; that arrangement is your workspace.

Panels, tabs and groups

• A panel is a single module instance. You can have more than one of the same kind — e.g. two charts on different symbols.
• Panels live inside groups. A group shows one panel at a time and stacks the others as tabs along its header, exactly like browser tabs.
• Drag a panel's tab to split the screen — drop it against the left, right, top or bottom edge of a group to create a new group beside it, or drop it onto another group's header to stack it there as a tab.

Resizing and focus

• Drag the divider between two groups to resize them. The split ratio is part of your workspace and is saved with it.
• Click anywhere in a panel to give it focus. The focused panel is the target for keyboard shortcuts (for example, chart shortcuts only apply to the chart you're working in).

Your workspace is saved

The terminal continually remembers your layout — which panels are open, where they are, and their individual settings. When you come back, you pick up where you left off.

Most modules also save their own state inside the workspace, not just their position. For example:

• A Chart remembers its symbol, timeframe, chart type, indicators and drawings.
• A Watchlist remembers its symbols, visible columns and column widths.
• An Option Chain remembers its underlying, expiry and strike range.
• A Heatmap remembers its symbols and view settings.