User Interface

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Description

Wihtin the menu iten "User Interface" you can specify a range of default setting to make the terminal react according to your preferences.

How to open

Select Tools | Preferences from the main menu

User interface General dialogue Nordlys

General

You can turn on/off:

Floating windows - Instead of having all windows in one container the windows can be move freely on your screen(s)
Snap windows every xx pixels - a function for making it easier to adjust the windows correctly
Snap windows loaded from workspace - same function as above when you load old workspaces
Use padding around page name -
Adjust time to: Local / Feed / GMT / Unadjusted
Fractional format:
Maximal number of intraday points: Set the number of points
Maximal number of search: Set the number of results
Just-in-time loading of market data -
Market Calendar, Show automatic - you can set a time you want the market calendar window to open.

 

Grids

Tick the relevant boxes to display grid lines, grid hints and alternate grid colors on rows or mark selected row. "Highlight today's up/down on entire row" set the font color for the entire row to the corresponding up/down color. Not just the +/- columns which is default.

Line spacing refers to the space taken by each row in a market window and you can increase to improve readability or decrease to save space.

Charts

 

Market Data

Calculate pre-market +/- values - Calculates change (+/- and +/-%) values in the pre-market period when there have been no trades (and thus no Last price), but the pre-trade Bid and Ask values match. This allows you to see where the market will open for each symbol that has pre-market orderbooks.
Separate tab for Indices in Market windows - Moved all Indices from the tab where all the equities and ETFs are and puts them on a separate tab.
Auto-save quote list pr feed - autmaotically save the list you build up on the List tab in a market window.
Show trading halt alerts - Warning if a symbol is halted on the exchange

Put/Call settings

Quick-search fields within Window

 

Regional

In the Regional page of the Tools | Preferences | User Interface Settings dialog, you can select your preferred default country. The default value will be taken from your Windows locale settings.

Note that the list of countries only includes countries from which you have access to streaming quotes. The selected country is used for the first two pages when creating a new automatic workspace (File | Create New Workspace). It also determines what country is shown at the top of the Select Market and Select News dialogs.

Browser

Choose internal or external browser and decide if you want to allow pop-ups or not.

Dialogs

Tick off the check box to restore all optional dialogs.

Choose dialog font size from the scroll menu.

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02.02.2015