MX Terminal is keyboard first. You type a ticker, a panel code, or both, and the workspace follows. This page is the whole vocabulary, plus a tour of where everything sits.
Recorded against the live terminal, start to finish: the landing page, signing in, the board, the tape, the watchlist, the market rail, the command line, the heatmap, statements, the news wire and the screener.
Six regions. Everything you type lands in one of them.
The command line is the search box at the top of the screen, the wide one reading "Ticker, company or market". Click it, type, press Enter. Your text is not case sensitive.
Four patterns cover the everyday work.
| Pattern | Example | What happens |
|---|---|---|
HELP |
HELP |
Lists every panel code in the info rail on the right. |
| A ticker | SOL |
Opens that company's quote sheet in the info rail: price, change, volume, sector, country, chief executive, competitors, customers, partners, suppliers, shares in issue, market cap and major shareholders. |
| A panel code | HEATMAP |
Opens that panel in the stage, on the exchange you are currently viewing. |
| Ticker then panel | ABG FINANCIALS |
Opens the panel already scoped to that company. This is the fastest route to a single company's statements. |
A company name works wherever a ticker does, if you type it in full. Anything the terminal cannot resolve comes back as a short error in the info rail rather than a blank screen.
You never have to leave the command line to change exchange.
| Pattern | Example | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| An exchange | NGX | Switches the whole board to that market. JSE, NGX, EGX. |
| A country code | KE | Same thing by country: ZA, NG, KE, EG. |
| Ticker then market | MTN JSE | Switches market and opens that company, in one go. |
| Market then panel | EGX NEWS | Switches market and opens the panel there, at market level. |
One exception worth knowing. NSE and JSE are each both an exchange and a company
listed on it, so typing one on its own opens the stock, not the market.
Use the country code instead: KE for Nairobi, ZA for
Johannesburg.
If you have used a Bloomberg keyboard, these will be familiar. They work anywhere a panel code does, including after a ticker.
| Type | Same as |
|---|---|
FA, FIN, RV | FINANCIALS — so SCOM FA is Safaricom's statements |
EQS | SCREENER |
CN, REG | NEWS — company news and the regulator wire live in the one panel |
DES, SPLC | The quote sheet for the security you have selected |
Each region can be closed with its own control, and the closed state is remembered between sessions — so these are how you get one back.
| Type | What happens |
|---|---|
WATCH, PANEL, MARKET, CHAT | Opens that window, or closes it if it is already open. WATCHLIST, CENTER, INFO and ROOM do the same. |
WINDOWS, ALL | Opens all four at once. |
RESET, TILE | Puts the layout back to the default tiling. |
The TRADE panel is a demo. Orders are simulated, they fill at the last
close, no fees are modelled, and nothing is sent to a broker — MX Terminal is not one.
The account is held in your own browser, one per exchange, in that market’s currency.
| Type | What happens |
|---|---|
TRADE | Opens the demo account for the market you are on. |
BUY SCOM 100 | Fills a simulated buy of 100 Safaricom at the last close. |
SELL MTN 50 | Sells 50 from a demo position, if you hold that many. |
Type any of these on their own, or after a ticker. They are also the tabs across the top of the stage.
| Code | Panel | Data |
|---|---|---|
HEATMAP | Sector map for the exchange. Cell size is weight, colour is the day's move. Click a sector for its constituents, then a name to chart it in candles, line or area over 1D, 1M, 1Y, 10Y or the full history. | live snapshot |
SCREENER | Every listed equity, filtered by sector, price, change, volume and dividend yield. Exports to CSV. | live snapshot |
FINANCIALS | Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, parsed from company filings, with reporting periods side by side. | all four exchanges |
NEWS | One wire per market: press headlines, the regulator wire, and corporate actions — dividends and book closures with ticker chips. | live |
GLCO | Global commodities: gold, brent and the rest of the complex that moves these markets. | live |
BND | Government bonds and treasury bills by country. | central-bank auctions |
FX | Cross rates and a converter across KES, NGN, ZAR, EGP, USD, EUR and GBP. | live |
TAS | Time and sales, the intraday print tape. | not available |
RATINGS | Analyst consensus and signal tally. | no signals yet |
TRADE | Paper trading. Place simulated buy and sell orders against the last close, and watch a demo position build. Nothing reaches a broker, no money moves, and the account lives in your browser. | demo |
Why some panels say that. These markets are end of day, so there is no intraday print tape to show under TAS, and no free analyst feed behind RATINGS. The terminal says so rather than filling the space with numbers nobody sourced. BND has real central bank auction data behind it, but the deployed panel is still pointed at a live endpoint that the static site does not serve, so it falls back to its labelled sample.
| You see | It means |
|---|---|
EOD | End of day. The price is the last official close, not a live quote. |
SAMPLE | Placeholder data, shown only where a real feed is not wired up yet. Never mixed into real numbers. |
- | No value exists for that field. The terminal leaves it blank rather than guessing. |
| NO FREE OHLC FEED | No public price history exists for that security, so the chart shows the honest board price instead of drawing a line. |
The terminal is behind a sign in. From the landing page, choose Login or Sign Up, then either continue with Google or use an email and password. Google is the quickest route: pick the account and you land straight in the terminal with no new password to remember.