Trade Ticker

How to open

•Open "Horizontal Ticker" or "Vertical Ticker"  from the main menu under Discover > Show more .

Description

Similar to the trades tab in the symbol overivew, the trade ticker displays time and sales information. Instead of just showing trades for one symbol, the trade ticker can show trades for many symbols from a number of markets and asset classes.

To only show trades in symbols in your custom list, select "Filter on My List only".

Trades Ticker Setup

Setup is available from the window tool menu.

•The contents tab specifies which markets and asset classes (symbol types) you would like to see in the trade ticker. You can also select to only see symbols from a custom list.

•The Display tab, contains options for which columns to show and also configures behaviour such as smooth scrolling and color changes.

▪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.

•The Filter tab can be used to remove uninteresting trades or to only show interesting ones. Options include minimum volume and value, broker codes and trade types.

Columns

Setup is available from the window tool menu.

Available columns are:

•Flags (country associated with the symbol's market)

•Symbol (ticker code)

•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.