Understanding and customizing modules is crucial for optimizing your trading experience on Kraken Desktop. These powerful tools are not just flexible, they are designed to be deeply personalized. With the ability to resize and extensively configure settings within each module, you can craft a trading environment that aligns perfectly with your strategies and preferences.
View the full potential of each module by exploring the comprehensive list below. Here, you’ll find detailed insights into the customization options that can transform the way you use Kraken Desktop.
Every module on Kraken Desktop offers customizable settings, accessible by clicking the settings icon in the top right corner of each module.
The following table provides a detailed breakdown of key calculations used within various modules of Kraken Desktop. Each entry includes the specific metric, the precise calculation or formula used, and the modules where these metrics are applied. This information helps ensure transparency and supports precise understanding of market metrics and trading decisions.
Use default currency: Display prices and balance values using your default currency, or you can choose a custom currency such as EUR, GBP, BTC, ETH, and more.
Hide Small Balances: Enable this to hide balances below a certain threshold, decluttering your interface and focusing on your significant holdings.
Customizable Columns: You can customize the display by selecting which columns to show or hide, such as Allocation, Available Holdings, Total Holdings, Price, Available Value, and Total Value. This customization ensures that users have immediate access to the data most relevant to their needs.
Density: Adjust the density of information displayed for visual comfort.
Primary Market: Select the market you wish to analyze, such as BTC/EUR, adjusting the chart to display relevant market data instantly.
Add market to compare: Add additional markets to the chart to compare simultaneously. Up to 10 markets may be added to one Chart module.
Comparison mode: Only visible when multiple markets are added, the comparison mode allows you to choose between three methods of data visualization.
Analysis: Here is where you add and customize technical analysis indicators.
Interval: Choose chart intervals ranging from 1 minute (1m) to 1 month (1M), allowing precise short-term insights or broader long-term perspectives.
Time Span: Set a custom range to focus on specific trading periods, facilitating targeted historical analysis.
Draw Style: Select from styles like Candle (OHLC), Mountain, or Line chart to represent price movements.
Variant(Candle OHLC): Adjust the candlestick colors for price increases or decreases to visually distinct active trends.
Color Mode (Candle OHLC): Choose between one-color, two-color, and four-color setups, enhancing visual differentiation between upward and downward movements. You may also select which candles are filled, or if you’d like Heikin-ashi candles. To learn more about the different color modes, click the “?” symbol above the Color Mode dropdown.
Source (Mountain and Line): Choose the data point source for the line or mountain display. The available sources are open, high, low, close, median, HLC3 (high-low-close average), HLC4 (high-low-close-close average), OHLC4 (open-high-low-close average).
Color (Mountain and Line): Choose how the color of the price line changes with data from the Chart module. For example, selecting 'Up and down' will make the price line green or red depending if the price is trending upwards or downwards.
Fill (Mountain): Select between a solid fill color underneath the price line, or a gradient fill.
Step style (Mountain and Line): Choose whether the price line is displayed as steps, or as direct diagonal connections between points.
Line style (Mountain and Line): Customize line appearance with various patterns (solid, dashed, dotted, etc.)
Heikin-ashi: Apply Heikin-ashi smoothing calculation to price data, available for all draw styles (Candle, Line, Mountain). This offers smoother visual representation, highlighting clearer trends.
Scale Type: Select between a linear or logarithmic scale.
Grid Visibility: Toggle and choose the style grid lines placed on the background of the Chart module.
Zoom Level: Adjust zoom to focus on minute price movements or view broader trend patterns, helping in precise entry and exit strategy formulation.
Show watermark: Display a subtle market pairing watermark.
Show watermark interval: Display the current interval on the watermark.
Show full watermark name: Display the full market name in the watermark.
Watermark scale: Adjust the size of the watermark.
Reject outliers: Automatically remove extreme price spikes for clearer analysis.
Show price extremes: Highlight the highest and lowest visible prices.
Show candle close timer: Countdown timer to candle close.
Show price line: Clearly mark current price level with a line that expands horizontally across the whole chart.
Lock crosshair when panning: Maintain crosshair position during chart panning.
Alerts: Make alert levels visible on the chart and enable quick alert creation. Quick alerts allow you to create price alerts with one click directly on the Chart.
Chart trading: Activate or deactivate chart-based order entry.
Skip order confirmation: Submit orders from the chart without confirmation dialogs.
Show liquidation levels: Display potential liquidation points directly on the chart.
Show orders and positions: Display open orders and current positions directly on the chart, providing immediate context to current market positions.
Orders and positions alignment: Align orders/positions labels left or center.
Extend line: Visually extend order lines across the chart.
Show trades: Display past trades directly on the chart, marked with dots.
Combine buys & sells: Group buy and sell markers into a single dot if they're placed within the same timeframe. (Example: A buy and sell order are made within one hourly candle)
Trades, Positions, and Liquidation Levels: Show previous trades,open positions, and potential liquidation level directly on the chart, critical for managing risk in margin trading.
Minimum Size: Set a minimum trade size threshold for visible trades on the chart.
Legend: Controls whether the chart legend (detailing the symbols and indicators used on the chart) is visible, which can be useful for quickly referencing what each symbol or color denotes without cluttering the workspace. Options to show the legend only when hovered or to always show it, provides flexibility in how much information is persistently displayed on the chart. Lastly, you may adjust the font size of the legend to make it stand out more, or be more subtle.
Time Zone: Select the time zone for the clock. This setting can be adjusted to match local time or any specific time zone of your choice.
Hide Background: This toggle enables users to make the clock’s background transparent, allowing for seamless integration with the board.
Display Components: Choose between an analog, digital, or combined analog and digital display.
Layout: Adjust the layout to automatic, where the system decides the best arrangement of the clock elements, or select horizontal/vertical alignments.
Spacing: Define the spacing around the clock within the module box.
Analog clock order: If combined with the digital clock, choose whether the analog clock appears first or second in the layout.
Analog clock style: Select whether you want the analog clock to be standard colored, or inverted for more contrast.
Digital clock date and time zone: Toggle to display the current date and/or time zone.
Style: Choose from styles such as bordered, inverted, or plain.
Text Alignment: Set the alignment of the digital clock’s text to left, center, or right, allowing for better organization within the module’s layout.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to display in the Depth Chart, like BTC/USD.
Amount Units: Select the unit measurement for trade amounts, such as in base currency or in quote currency.
Span: Adjust the percentage span of the depth chart to zoom in or out on the order book, offering a clearer view of market depth near the current price or a broader view to encompass larger price ranges.
Amount Axis Direction: Configure the direction of the amount axis to either up, down, left, or right aligning with personal preference or screen layout.
Fill: Choose between a gradient, solid, or no fill for the buy and sell sides of the chart.
Grid: Set the grid style to either solid lines, crosses, or completely hidden.
Orders: Display open orders directly on the Depth Chart, providing immediate context to current market positions.
Positions and Liquidation Levels: Show open positions, and/or potential liquidation levels directly on the Depth Chart, critical for managing risk in margin trading.
Large Order Added: Receive audio cues for when large orders are added to the book.
Spread Narrowed/Widened: Receive audio cues when the spread (the difference between the buy and sell price) narrows or widens.
Spread Threshold (bps): Set a specific basis point range to trigger sound alerts when the spread reaches predefined thresholds, offering proactive responses to spread changes.
This module displays a leaderboard for Kraken Futures traders, ranked by performance metrics. You can easily switch between the following leaderboard types:
P&L (Profit and Loss)
ROI (Return on Investment)
Volume
Additionally, you can toggle between different timeframes:
7 days (7d)
1 month (1M)
This module has no additional customizable settings.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to interact with and display in the Ladder, like BTC/USD.
Order Shortcuts: For more information on Order Shortcuts, see our dedicated Ladder Trading article.
Amount Units: Choose between base and quote currencies for the order quantities displayed on the Ladder.
Price History: Toggle between displaying price history as Combined LTQ (Last Traded Quantity) & VAP (Volume at Price), Separated LTQ & VAP, LTQ only, or no price history at all. This allows you to customize the additional information displayed within the Ladder module.
Working Columns: Opt to display the order ladder in either a single or double column format. This feature allows traders to view bid and ask prices besides a cumulative order amount (one-column), or orders separated by buys versus sells. (two-column)
Summary Volume Type: Adjust the volume metric in the summary column (left side of Ladder) to display the volume in Base or Quote currencies.
P/L Source: Specify the source of profit and loss calculations, choosing between exchange data or last price.
Skip Confirmations: Select your preference for order confirmation prompts.
Post Only (Limit Orders): Select whether you’d like your order submissions to be post only, which means your orders will only execute if they are successfully submitted as a Limit Order.
Auto reset Delta Price and Display Lot Size: Automatically adjusts the price difference setting for new orders back to a predefined default after each transaction, ensuring consistent placement relative to current market prices. Simultaneously, it displays the transaction quantity directly in the Ladder interface, allowing for quick verification and management of order sizes.
Hide notification bar: Show or hide the notification bar at the bottom of the Ladder. This bar displays things such as trading errors if they occur.
Center point: Choose the reference point for centering the Ladder module. You can select the last traded price, or the midpoint between the current bid and ask prices.
Recentering strategy: Determine how often and when the Ladder module recenters.
Hotkeys: Hotkeys allow you to conduct Ladder actions without touching your mouse. With hotkeys, you can increase and decrease the tick size, or recenter the Ladder.
Display Lot Format: Change the way lots are displayed between native, scaled, or scientific units. You may even combine scaled and native.
Price Level Highlights: Choose whether you’d like all price levels to be highlighted, changed digits, or only major levels. If you wish, you may also completely disable any highlighting.
Bid/Ask Color: Set the text color scheme for bid and ask prices.
Bid/Ask Highlight: Choose the style in which the bid/asks are highlighted. There are solid, scaled, and gradient options in order to make your interface as intuitive as possible. You may also disable any highlighting.
Sound Events: Enable or disable sound notifications for various trading events like large orders being added or removed, and spread changes. These auditory cues can help you stay alert to significant market movements without constantly monitoring the screen.
Spread Threshold (bps): Set a specific basis point range to trigger alerts when the spread reaches predefined thresholds, offering proactive responses to spread changes.
The Margin Health module provides an overview of your margin trading status, displaying key metrics such as leverage, profit and loss (P&L), collateral value, margin equity, initial margin, and available margin.
View: Choose to view margin health for spot, futures, or all.
Orientation (All only): Choose whether data for spot and futures is displayed horizontally or vertically.
The Markdown module allows you to add custom notes, images, or annotations to your boards using Markdown syntax, making it simple to format text for clarity and organization.
Scale: Adjust the size of the text within the Markdown module.
Hide background: Hide the background color.
For more information about the Markdown module, visit our support center article here.
Market: Select the market in which statistics will be shown.
View: Choose between a horizontal or vertical format of the market stats.
Scale: Adjust the size of the text within the module.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to display in the Order Book, like BTC/USD.
Price Bucket: Allows the grouping of price levels into larger buckets to simplify viewing and reduce noise in highly liquid markets.
Amount Units: Choose between base and quote currencies for the order quantities displayed on the Order Book.
Depth tooltip: When hovering over a row in the Order Book, a tooltip will appear with detailed information on that depth level. Here, you can choose whether that tooltip appears, and where it appears. You can select none, left, right, or to appear wherever your pointer is.
Show mid-price bar: Toggle for displaying a bar that displays the mid-price, spread, and spread percentage.
Bars: Choose how the bars are depicted for each price level. You may have them individually sized, cumulatively sized, or have both representations at the same time.
Orientation: Display the Order Book in vertical or horizontal format.
Large Order Added: Receive audio cues for when large orders are added to the book.
Spread Narrowed/Widened: Receive audio cues when the spread (the difference between the buy and sell price) narrows or widens.
Spread Threshold (bps): Set a specific basis point range to trigger sound alerts when the spread reaches predefined thresholds, offering proactive responses to spread changes.
Selection Grouping: Assign the Order Ticket module to a dynamic group. This enables synchronization with whichever module is actively selected.
Market Selection: Choose the specific market to trade via the Order Ticket, like BTC/USD.
Post Only (Limit Orders): Ensures that limit orders are added to the order book and not executed immediately as market orders.
Skip Confirmations: Disables the confirmation dialog box, enabling faster order submission. This is beneficial for traders who need to execute trades quickly and are comfortable with the risks associated with not reviewing orders before submission.
Auto reset form: When this is enabled, the fields in the Order Ticket module will reset after an order is placed.
Show bid/ask: Toggle this option to either show or hide the bid and ask prices at the top of the order form. These are buttons you can use to automatically fill your Limit price with the respective price.
Show Cancel/Close All Orders: Enables or disables the buttons located at the bottom of the Order Ticket which allow you to cancel all open orders, or close all open positions.
% Price Offset: This setting allows traders to customize the Limit Price shortcuts to set the order price at a percentage above or below the current market price. Useful for setting target buying or selling prices without needing to manually calculate the exact figure.
Default Trigger Price: Sets a default price that will trigger conditional orders, such as stop-loss or take-profit orders. This saves time by pre-filling the trigger field with a predefined value when placing new conditional orders.
Default Stop Price: Similar to the default trigger price, this sets a predefined stop price for stop orders, facilitating quicker setup of stop-loss strategies without the need to manually enter the stop price each time.
Duration: Defines the validity period of an order with options like Good-Til-Cancel (GTC), Good-Til-Date (GTD), or Immediate-or-Cancel. This setting helps manage how long orders should remain active.
Fee Currency: Allows traders to select the currency in which trading fees will be paid. Please note, fee currencies are not guaranteed.
Quantity Select: Choose between a percentage slider, or predefined percentage shortcuts (25%, 50%, 75%, Max) for inputting your desired quantity. You may also turn this off entirely.
Enables rapid selection of order sizes through predefined quantities. (25%, 50%, 70%, Max) Streamlining the order entry process and helping to ensure precise position sizing.
Sound Events: Customize auditory alerts for various order activities such as fills, cancels, or error events. This setting helps keep traders informed of order executions or problems without the need to continuously watch the screen.
Selection Grouping: Assign the Order Ticket module to a dynamic group. This enables synchronization with whichever module is actively selected.
Market Selection: Choose the specific market to trade on via the Order Tickett, like BTC/USD.
Post Only (Limit Orders): Ensures that limit orders are added to the order book and not executed immediately as market orders.
Skip Confirmations: Disables the confirmation dialog box, enabling faster order submission. This is beneficial for traders who need to execute trades quickly and are comfortable with the risks associated with not reviewing orders before submission.
Auto reset form: When this is enabled, the fields in the Order Ticket module will reset after an order is placed.
Show bid/ask: Toggle this option to either show or hide the bid and ask prices at the top of the order form. These are buttons you can use to automatically fill your Limit price with the respective price.
Show Cancel/Close All: Enables or disables the buttons located at the bottom of the Order Ticket which allow you to cancel all open orders, or close all open positions.
% Price Offset: This setting allows traders to customize the Limit Price shortcuts to set the order price at a percentage above or below the current market price. Useful for setting target buying or selling prices without needing to manually calculate the exact figure.
Default Trigger Price: Sets a default price that will trigger conditional orders, such as stop-loss or take-profit orders. This saves time by pre-filling the trigger field with a predefined value when placing new conditional orders.
Default Stop Price: Similar to the default trigger price, this sets a predefined stop price for stop orders, facilitating quicker setup of stop-loss strategies without the need to manually enter the stop price each time.
Duration: Defines the validity period of an order with options like Good-Til-Cancel (GTC), Good-Til-Date (GTD), or Immediate-or-Cancel. This setting helps manage how long orders should remain active.
Fee Currency: Allows traders to select the currency in which trading fees will be paid. Please note, fee currencies are not guaranteed.
Quantity Quick-Select: Enables rapid selection of order sizes through predefined quantities. (25%, 50%, 70%, Max) Streamlining the order entry process and helping to ensure precise position sizing.
Trade Market/Limit: Enable or disable the quick select buttons for Market and Limit Orders.
Trigger/Stop Price: Enable or disable the entry boxes for Trigger and Stop prices.
Sound Events: Customize auditory alerts for various order activities such as fills, cancels, or error events. This setting helps keep traders informed of order executions or problems without the need to continuously watch the screen.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to display in the Spread Chart, like BTC/USD.
Spread Plot: Adjust this setting to customize the line chart in the middle of the module. This chart visualizes the spread for you, and can be measured by the absolute amount, or a percentage. You may also hide the Spread Plot.
Show Trades: Enable or disable the bar graph on the bottom of the module that indicates the amount of trading activity. This can be particularly useful for spotting patterns of high liquidity.
Spacing: Adjust the horizontal spacing of the Spread Chart.
Sound Events: Enable or disable sound notifications for various trading events like buys, sells, or spread actions. These auditory cues can help you stay alert to significant market movements without constantly monitoring the screen.
Spread Threshold (bps): Set a specific basis point range to trigger alerts when the spread reaches predefined thresholds, offering proactive responses to spread changes.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to display in the Summary, like BTC/USD.
Show/hide settings: Toggle visibility for different market metrics, such as the current price, price change, price chart, volume chart, price range, and volume statistics.
Price change: If you have price change enabled in the show/hide settings, you can decide whether you'd like that price change to be a rolling 24 hours, or the current day. Rolling change means it's calculated based on the past 24 hours, while current day calculates based on the performance since the start of the day. (00:00 UTC)
Fill: Choose the visual representation of the price movement data. Options include a simple color fill, gradient fill, or no fill at all.
Sound Events: Enable sound alerts for local highs and lows, helping users stay informed of significant price movements without constant visual monitoring.
Content: The text that is to be displayed on the module.
Scale: The size of the text within the module.
Hide Background: This option allows clients to make the module appear with no background, integrating seamlessly with the board.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to display in the Ticker, like BTC/USD.
Scale: The size of the Ticker information within the module.
Spread: This option toggles the display of the spread (the difference between the bid and ask price) directly within the ticker. Enabling this helps traders see the spread at a glance without needing to access separate trading interfaces.
Hide Background: This option allows users to make the module appear with no background, integrating seamlessly with the board
Sound Events: Enable sound alerts for narrowing or widening spreads, helping users stay informed without constant visual monitoring.
Spread Threshold (bps): Set a specific basis point range to trigger alerts when the spread reaches predefined thresholds, offering proactive responses to spread changes.
Market Selection: Choose the specific trading pair to display in the Time & Sales module, like BTC/USD.
Minimum Amount Filter: Allows filtering out trades below a specified volume to focus on more significant market activities. Trades below the minimum amount set will not be displayed.
Amount Units: Users can choose between displaying the trade volume in base currency units or quote currency units.
Accumulate at Price: This setting groups trades at the same price together, providing a consolidated view of trade volumes at specific price points.
Flip Amount Bars: Enable this to place the Amount Bars on the right hand side of the module.
Columns: Toggle on or off certain metrics, such as Time, Taker (buy or sell), Price, Amount, and the Amount Bars. You can also drag and drop the 6 dots on the right side of each metric to re-order them.
Color Mode: Differentiates buys and sells with two distinct colors (2 color), or provides additional color distinctions to highlight large orders or spread variations. (4 color)
Enable Highlight: Highlights trades that meet or exceed a specified volume threshold.
Show headers: Use this to show or hide the headers at the top of each column.
Show Time as Elapsed: Displays the time since the trade occurred rather than the exact timestamp, which can help users gauge the recency of trades in a dynamic market environment.
Sound Events: Users can enable sound alerts for buy and sell trades, providing audible cues for market activity without the need to constantly watch the screen.
Open Orders/Trades/Positions/Order History/Log: These tabs on the top of the Trade Activity module will display different show/hide settings based on which one is selected. You can enable or disable dozens of column options, on each viewing mode. You can also use the dots to the right of each column option to rearrange the order in which they are displayed.
P/L Source: Specify the source of profit and loss calculations, choosing between exchange data or last price.
Aggregate positions by market: Enable this to combine all positions placed on one market (For example, BTC/USD) into one entry. Disabling this will display all open positions on one market as separate entries.
Density: Adjust the density of information displayed for visual comfort.
Sound events: Traders can enable sound alerts for order outcomes such as cancelled, placed, filled, and rejected orders, providing audible cues for trade activity without the need to constantly watch the screen.
Please visit our fully comprehensive article for setting up, using, and customizing the Trade Shortcuts module.
Market: Search and add markets to your watchlist.
Watchlist Name: Name your watchlist here, the name will appear on the top left corner of the module.
Accumulate Markets From Group: When enabled, this module will add markets to its own list whenever any other module in the same group views a market.
Align decimals: This being enabled keeps decimal points aligned regardless of the amount of digits before and after the decimal.
Columns: Here you can customize the information displayed in your Watchlist by selecting which columns are visible in the module. You can also use the dots to the right of each column option to rearrange the order in which they are displayed.
Scale: Adjusts the size of the text and elements within the module for better visibility.
Scale Header Independently: Allows you to adjust the scale of the header independently from the rest of the content.
Hide Asset Icons: Option to hide or display icons associated with each market.
Hide background: Hide the color of the themes background within the module.