Preference

Description

Confirm

Choose whether to receive confirmation messages before you place, cancel, modify, and park orders. You do not have the option of turning off notifications for Order Desk or Split Quote Board.

You can change the confirmation window in two ways:

•      Displaying Account Picker gives you the option of changing the account directly on the confirmation window before you complete the order action.

•      Enabling editing allows you to change the order size and price on the window before completing the action.

Preference

Description

Confirm

Select the confirm check boxes to receive confirmation messages for the listed situations.

If confirmations for placing, cancelling, modifying, and parking orders is turned on, then the notifications check boxes on smart order preference windows are automatically turned on and inactive.

Note: In rare cases, it may be necessary for the system to change order duration to DAY. For example, a LMT order placed with a FAK duration. The system may allow the order, but the duration is changed. In those unusual cases, you receive a confirmation message even when confirmations are turned off.

Popups

Select check boxes to receive notification when orders are filled or partially filled and when an order hasn’t been acknowledged or filled in a certain amount of time. When an order is filled or partially filled, the Fill Report window serves as the notification.

Rejected orders result in a warning displayed in Message Center.

Other warning messages may be generated from the trading gateway or by another part of the system. The list of possible warnings is too long to document, but examples include “Ticked at n but order not filled” or “Compound order chain is about to be cancelled.”

To eliminate warning message notifications, unselect the warning message check box.

Change Trading Interface Background Color

Changing the background color of the trading application is another way to be notified of order-related activity.

You can be notified when an order is filled or partially filled by blinking, highlighting, or both.

A highlight is an uninterrupted color change that lasts some number of seconds. If you choose both blink and highlight, then the highlight follows the blink.

Working orders can be identified with a solid background color change. The system uses the Buy and Sell colors (Trading Display preferences).

In this image, there are both buy and sell working orders.

In the case of working orders for strategies, both colors are displayed:

Sounds

Select these check boxes to hear sounds for certain order events.

Several sound (.wav) files are included with your software. Select one from the drop-down menu. You may also select a .wav file from another source by clicking Browse in the drop-down menu.

Warn of potential cross trades

Select this check box to be warned of a possible cross trade.

Display received informational messages

Select this check box if you would like to see informational messages when they are delivered. This setting does not impact whether you receive the messages.

Sound when there is a problem communicating with the order routing system

Select this check box to be alerted to an order routing problem with a sound.

To choose a sound, click the drop-down arrow.

Click the Test button to preview the sound.

Prompt for cancel at logoff

If you would like to be prompted to cancel working orders when you log off, select this check box.

When you log off, you are asked to confirm your action.