Setting Orders and Positions Display Preferences

To open these preferences, click the Setup button, and then click Orders and Positions Preferences.

Preferences that apply to all trading entry displays are described in Trading Display Preferences. Other trading preferences, such as notifications and risk, are described in Setting Trading Preferences.

See also: Setting O&P Functions Preferences

Preference

Description

Choose panels to display

Choose to display the Orders pane, Account Summary pane, or both.

Select the check boxes to display the Accounts and Filter panes.

Choose columns to display

Click a tab, then select the check boxes for the columns and buttons you want to add to the display. You must use the scroll bar down in order to see the columns. Use the arrow buttons to move columns left and right.

See column lists after this table.

In addition to choosing columns, you can also choose which buttons to add to order windows (Other Functions). The options vary depending on the window. These options are for the Working orders window:

The buttons look like this on Orders and Positions:

Price Display

Select these check boxes to display various prices and buttons on the Orders pane.

If you select Net Change and Yield, then column options for net change and yield (order price, limit price, average fill price, average buy price, average sell price, etc.) are activated in the column selection section of display preferences,

The system displays price if Net Change and Yield are not selected. It’s only when at least one of those options is selected that you can unselect Price.

Font size

Click a button to choose one of four font sizes.

List of Orders columns

      Account

      Account Nickname: name given to account in Account Settings.

      Average Fill Price: calculated as the number of filled lots times the fill price for each filled order divided by the number of filled lots.

      Buy/Sell

      Counterparty: identifies party on opposite side of trade

      CXL Time

      Duration: For DAY GTT orders, displays time <MM/YY HH:MM:SS> on the working orders window.

      Exchange

      FCM

      Fill Time

      Hedge Type = Introduced in response to MiFID regulations. It is relevant only if Speculation Type applies to the instrument or leg instrument (in the case of strategies) in use.

      Limit for Stop/Limit Orders

      Limit Price

      NC Average Fill Price (NC = net change)

      NC Limit Price (NC = net change)

      NC Order Price (NC = net change)

      NC Price (NC = net change)

      Order #

      Order Check Mark (Adding and Managing Order Comments)

      Order Comment

      Order Filled Size

      Order ID

      Order Price

      Order Size

      Order Type

      Order Working Size

      Park Until (Parked window): date and time or only time if for current day

      Place Time

      Price

      Status

      Symbol

      Sys ID

      `Take Ownership is used if two or more traders are trading the same account and, for example, the first trader's shift ends and a second trader can "take ownership" of an order.

      Ticket #

      Time till Active (Parked window, Strategy Manager All window): day, hour, and minute or only hour and minute if current day; value automatically updated each minute

      Type/Dur: combined type and duration in one column. For DAY GTT orders, displays time <MM/YY HH:MM:SS> on the working orders window.

 

      User: user name

      Visible Size: used with iceberg orders

      Yield Average Fill Price

      Yield Limit Price

      Yield Order Price

      Yield Price

List of Strategy Manager columns

      Average Fill Price

      BA Qty

      BB Qty

      Best Ask

      Best Bid

      Buy/Sell

      CXL Time

      CXL/RPL Counter

      Duration

      Exchange

      FCM

      Formula

      Limit for Stop/Limit orders

      Limit Price

      NC Average Fill Price

      NC Limit Price

      NC Order Price

      NC Price

      Order #

      Order Check Mark

      Order Comment

      Order Filled Size

      Order ID

      Order Price

      Order Size

      Order Type

      Order Working Size

      Place Time

      Price

      Q Name

      Q Number

      Server Order #

      Status

      Symbol

      Sys ID

      Ticket #

      Type/Dur

      User

      Visible size

      Yield Average Fill Price

      Yield Limit Price

      Yield Order Price

      Yield Price

List of Summary columns

      Average Buy Price

      Average Sell Price

      Clearing Position: For outright contracts, this column displays the outright clearing position. For spreads, this column displays leg clearing positions separated by a comma. Leg positions are separated by a comma. Long positions have positive number; short positions have negative. This column is displayed only if Group spread positions by filled spread orders is selected in Strategy Order preferences. If you have this column turned on and you turn off group by spread orders then turn it back on, this column also returns to its “on” state.

      Filled Buys (FILLB)

      Filled Sells (FILLS)

      Incomplete

      Incomplete Buys

      Incomplete Sells

      Message: contains the total number of messages submitted for each executed contract. Hover the mouse over the working, filled, and position columns to display a tooltip.

      NC Average Buy Price

      NC Average Sell Price

      P&L+OTE/MVO

      Position

      Position Long (Long)

      Position Short (Short)

      Symbol

      UPL (unrealized profit/loss for options)

      UPL in Reporting Currency

      Volume Ratio: calculated as the total number of transactions placing, canceling, and modifying a symbol's orders divided by the number of filled lots for the symbol. It is displayed as the ratio [value] : 1, where [value] is the volume ratio specified with two-decimal precision (e.g. 0.1 : 1 and 2.50 : 1). This ratio is calculated for the current trading session only.

      Working Buys (WKGB)

      Working Sells (WKGS)

      Yield Average Buy Price

      Yield Average Sell Price

Other functions

Buttons available for each window:

Button

Working

Filled

Cancelled

Exceptions

Parked

All

Cancel

x

x

x

x

Replace

x

x

x

Convert to Market

x

x

x

x

Suspend

x

 

 

 

 

x

OCO

x

x

Duplicate

x

x

x

x

x

x

Activate

x

Care Fill

 

 

 

 

x