User Interface Overview

There are seven zones:

1. Main Menu
2. Toolbar Menu
3. Notification Area
4. Tabs
5. Right side panels
6. Bottom panels
7. Status bar

There are five general types of tabs:

1. Start Page - shows a list of the last opened strategies and gives you fast access to load more strategies off-line or on-line
2. History Center - allows you to operate your data files
3. Repository Tab - load off-line strategy collections or download some from the on-line repository.
4. Control Panel Tab - program-wide settings for FSB Pro
5. Strategy Tab - Shows an open strategy

In strategy tabs the title is always the title of the current strategy.

You can close each tab by clicking with the middle button/scroll of your mouse.

There are some additional panels that can be opened to accompany your work (Bottom panels):

• Output Log - Shows additional information, warnings, errors and hints concerning your latest actions ant the program's status
• Trade Status - Shows any currently open positions
• Trade Journal - Shows a log of the trading operations

There are some additional panels that can be opened to accompany your work (Right side panels):

• Additional Statistics - Shows complementary statistics to Account Statistics
• Strategy Explorer - lets you easily navigate between strategy files from inside FSB Pro 
• Strategy Portfolio - Watches all open strategies and computes a cumulative strategy

• File
  • New Creates and opens a new empty strategy 
  • Open lets you select and open a saved strategy, you can also select multiple strategies to open at once (this command will use the latest location you opened a strategy from)
  • Open Default - opens the default strategy directory (C:\Program Files\Forex Strategy Builder Pro\User Files\Strategies)
  • Save - saves the strategy from the active tab
  • Save as - saves the strategy from the active tab as a new file
  • Close - closes the current tab
  • Save all - saves all open strategies
  • Close all - closes all tabs
  • User Files Folder… - opens C:\Program Files\Forex Strategy Builder Pro\User Files where all user data lives
  • Exit Program - Closes FSB Pro

• Edit
  • Undo, Redo - those commands can be applied to the active strategy tab. Those are usable only if the strategy has been changed since the tab is opened.
  • Copy Strategy, Paste Strategy - allows you to copy a strategy to the clipboard, you can copy and paste strategies between FSB Pro to FSB or copy and paste strategies from the on-line repository to FSB Pro.

• View
  • Has commands to open all possible types of tabs and panels
  • Main Toolbar - allows you to disable/enable the Main Toolbar
  • Status Bar - allows you to disable/enable the Status Bar

• Account
  • Account Settings - opens Control Panel > Account

• Market
  • Symbol Settings - opens Control Panel > Symbols
  • Data Horizon - opens Control Panel > Data Horizon
  • Data Sources - opens Control Panel > Data Sources
  • Download History Data - opens History Center > Data Download
  • Import JForex Data Files - opens History Center > JForex Import

• Strategy
  • Recalculate Strategy - recalculates the active strategy

• Trading 
  • Start/Stop Trade All - Starts/Stops trading all connected strategies
  • Trader Auto Start - automatically start trading a list of strategies
  • Install MetaTrader 4 Expert… - Starts the expert installer for MT4
  • MetaTrader 4 Expert Files - shows you the directory containing the expert files. You can use those if you wish to install the expert manually

• Help
  • View Online Help - link to the online help on forexsb.com
  • Support Forum - communicate with our team and users on the forexsb.com support forum
  • Purchase License - will take you to the Purchase License page online where you can buy a license for FSB Pro
  • Enter License Code –link
  • About - shows the current licensing status of the program, the version and other information

This menu contains shortcuts to the commands in the Main Menu, it consists of 4 general parts:

• Commands
• Main Tabs (Start Page, History Center, Strategy Collections, Control Panel)
• Bottom panels (Output Log, Trade Status, Trade Journal)
• Right-side panels (Additional Statistics, Strategy Explorer, Portfolio)