Trade Ticker

Description

The Trade Ticker provides all trades from a defined market / exchange / source either in realtime or delayed depending on your account. The caption of the Trade Ticker window now more clearly shows how it is configured and what type of filtering is in effect.

How to open

To open a trade ticker line select File | New | Horizontal/Vertical Ticker from the main menu. The trade ticker displays all trades (or other instruments such as indices) from one or more markets. Available columns are:

•	Source Flag (country of origin)

•	Quote Symbol (ticker code)

•	Quote Description (instead of ticker code)

•	Price (last trade)

•	Arrows (indicates whether the last price is up or down compared to the previous trade)

•	Volume (trade volume)

•	B Id (Broker buyer ID. Only available for selected sources)

•	S ID (Broker seller ID. Only available for selected sources)

•	Bid (bid price at the time of the trade)

•	Ask (ask price at the time of the trade)

•	Time (time for the trade. Can be setup with seconds)

•	Trades outside bid/ask price range are marked with a diverging color. To change colors click on the wrench icon followed by Edit Colors and Fonts.

Setup

Click on the wrench icon in the ticker window and select Setup. Three tabs appear:

Markets and Symbol setup

Define your preferred markets and symbols (depending on user account). Click on the check boxes to include all markets and/or symbols or choose from the lists.

Display settings

Define the layout of the ticker by clicking on/off the check boxes:

•	Flags: Displays a flag with country of origin for each trade.

•	Full name: Displays quote description instead of quote symbol.

•	Arrows: Displays an Arrow for each trade. An Arrow indicates whether the price is up or down compared to previous trade.

•	Broker: Show broker ID for each trade

•	Bid/Ask: Show Bid/Ask price for each trade

•	Time stamp: Show time stamp for the trade. It is also possible to display Seconds.

•	Reverse direction: Default direction is down for a Vertical tickerline or from right-to- left for Horizontal tickerlines.

•	Smooth scrolling: Will make the display of the ticker smoother.

•	Color changes: indicates whether each Trade is to be displayed in colors if the price is up or down compared to the previous trading day.

Filter on Broker

You can filter trades on one or more brokers. Tick off your preferred broker(s) or tick off to include all brokers.

”List” Trade Ticker

It is possible to define a personalized List trade ticker with a selection of quotes. In the List window, right-click and select ”List Ticker”.

Composite Trade Ticker

It is possible to define a ”Composite” trade ticker with a selection of quotes. In the Composite Window right click and select ”Composite trade ticker”.

The vertical and horizontal Trade Ticker windows have been expanded to support symbol list filtering and linked window functionality.

You can use the Composite window to create and save any number of named symbol lists (saved as .sl files in your Ontrade\Setup folder). You can right-click a composite window and select Composite Trade Ticker to create a Trade Ticker window that is linked to and filtered by the symbols in the Composite window. If you close the Composite window the Trade Ticker window will also be closed.

Now this has been enhanced to allow a Trade Ticker window to explicitly be filtered by a specific saved symbol list. To do this, open a Trade Ticker window ( More | Horizontal Ticker), click the wrench icon in the window caption and select Setup. On the first page, check [X] Use Symbol List and select the list from the available list.

Only new trades on symbols from the list will be displayed in the Trade Ticker window.

Change column order

In the vertical ticker window, you can now change the order of the columns by dragging and dropping them using the mouse.

You can now filter on a specific set of broker codes no matter how many markets you include. You configure this on the Filter on Broker page of the ticker window setup dialog. Just enter the list of three-letter broker codes using comma as a separator.

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9/20/2011