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You can click the order button on top left corner, the cursor will default to "Financial Instrument" where you type a ticker symbol and press tab, select "stock" or whatever you want with the mouse click for the name that comes up that you want. Then select Buy or sell, quantity, order type, etc.
You can also select an empty line in your portfolio view in the Financial Instrument column and type in a ticker, press tab, select what you are trying to trade (stock, option, warrant, etc..) - that will add it as a row in your portfolio. Then right click that ticker and select BUY or SELL, move across the row to adjust Quantity, Day/GTC, Limit/Market/midprice, algo, etc, Price for limit, select transmit