Tabs

Tabs should also be a familiar element. In your regular web-browser you also have tabs. You use tabs to have multiple websites open on your browser window, and you toggle between them by clicking on the tab.

In The ConvexValue Terminal they work the same way. You have tabs on tab which correspond to a dashboard and you can toggle between them by clicking on them.

The difference is that in your regular web-browser a tab corresponds to a single website. In ConvexValue, a tab corresponds to a dashboard which as we saw in the previous section can contain a multitude of panes.

Picking up from the previous section we can see that it has 1 tab called "Layout1". To create new tabs we can click on the "+" icon on the right corner as shown below:

What you will notice when you create new tabs is that they don't only appear on top like you expect them to, but they also appear on the left sidebar:

We will cover the sidebar in detail in the sidebar section.

Apart from the familiar act of clicking on the tab to activate it, you'll also notice that each tab has a Power icon.

The Power icon allows you to power off all of the panes on a given tab without having to close the tab.

The nature of financial analytics is that there often is a lot of high-speed data. So if you have a dashboard with many option chains loaded and running analytics and want to switch to a different dashboard, you have the ability to turn it off to prevent it from consuming your computer resources if you don't need it to. You do this by clicking on the Power Icon - which also let's you know which dashboards are running and which ones aren't.

Another helpful indicator to know how many panes you have running is located on the top right corner:

On the above picture there are 8 panes running amongst the two tabs.

The ConvexValue Terminal is designed to always be on. And by controlling the amount of panes you have running by powering tabs on/off you can make sure the platform isn't consuming computer resources when you don't need it to.

If you are taking a break from analyzing the market, you can simply power off the tabs and get back to them without loosing your work.

Now, if you haven't created some tabs and toggled between them I suggest you do it now. You will notice that although part of the screen is changing to a different tab, one of the panes on the left stays the same.

This is the Left Pane which we will cover in the next section.