# FX Professional Features

Caplin FX Professional is delivered with all the key elements you need to set up a robust FX trading front end, such as trade tiles, blotters, order tickets, charts, alerts, pricing grids, block trading wizards, and more. These are available pre-assembled into a fully functioning trading solution, but are also highly configurable and can be used in any combination.

The multi-functional trade tiles offer an exceptional array of features. They support one- or two-click trading across spots, forwards and swaps, can be expanded at a click to become price, forward or swap ladders, and can be popped out to save screen space.

A suite of pre-trade decision tools enables integration of your own research with third-party news services and real-time technical studies. Role-based permissioning supports creation of trading groups and allows head traders to monitor positions using group blotters. A comprehensive orders module covers both single orders and strategies. And fully configurable and searchable trade, position and order blotters provide powerful monitoring and management capabilities.

## FX Professional Home

Let’s take a look at the FX Professional Home. This is just one example of how you can personalise the trading environment with layout management tools designed to give users a truly tailored experience:

![FX_Professional_Home](../images/FX_Professional_Home.png)

The environment comprises workspace areas where tiles, grids and various other trading components can co-exist. You can enable users to populate a workspace with selected trading components, and configure how those components appear on-screen. There are options to set up panes, create tabbed views, and add/remove components using convenient menu tools and search utilities. You can also let users can rapidly view and manage multiple workspace areas, each containing a personalised set of components and onscreen layouts, including:

* **Blotters**: Supporting activity, trade execution and order blotters. All blotters have advanced filtering and sorting capabilities, and the order blotter supports single and bulk actions such as cancelling orders.
* **Charts**: Adding real-time intraday and historic charts to the workspace.
* **News**: Streaming news directly into FX Professional, and accessing news headlines and stories.
* **Block Trades**: Using the Block Trading Feature Pack to cost-effectively execute large numbers of transactions across multiple accounts, currency pairs, dealt currencies, spots, forwards and swaps. Pre-trade netting avoids repeated paying of spreads. Microsoft Excel upload reduces errors and increases efficiency.
* **Pop-outs**: Screen space is always at a premium. With pop-outs, any component can be popped out so optimising use of screen real estate.

## ESP Tiles

Caplin FX Professional enables users to perform one-click trading on an executable streaming FX rate:

![ESP_Tiles](../images/ESP_Tiles.png)

This rich set of functionality is standard and is easily extensible and customisable.

## Order Tickets

The Orders Feature Pack supports single orders (TP, SL, Market, Call), as well as strategies (if done, OCO, if done then OCO):

![Order_Tickets](../images/Order_Tickets.png)

Users can set time in force, time to trade, email/SMS notifications and actions for partial fills, and more.

## RFS Tickets

Caplin FX Professional offers Request for Stream (RFS) and Request for Quote (RFQ) trade tickets.

![RFS_Tickets](../images/RFS_Tickets.png)

These support spot, forward and swap trades, with full display of spot rate, forward points, near and far leg points, and swap points.

## Pop-up alerts

Alerting is a common requirement in trading apps:

![Pop_up_Alerts](../images/Pop_up_Alerts.png)

Caplin FX Professional provides event notifications that implement an alert system to notify users as trading events, such as order fills and partial fills, occur.

In addition, a notification tray is provided to manage and view all notifications. Users can view unread event notifications when logging in, and as they occur, with pop-ups for reviewing newly arrived notifications.

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**See also:**

* [Architectural Overview](architectural-overview.md)
* [FX Professional Motif](index.md)