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Order Book

The Order Book displays all the orders for all the accounts that you have access to for the current trading day. The most common columns are visible by default. Each order listed will have a submission time, market description, buy/sell volume, price, order type, and status. Buy orders are displayed in blue, sell orders in red. A list of fills will exist if the order has been partially or completely filled. Order status provides you with important information regarding the current state of your order. Many additional Columns are available in Order Book Properties, Columns Tab.

Filtered views of your orders are provided by the View Tabs at the top of the screen. Simply click the view you desire and Order Book will display the appropriate orders. The default, All view, is an unfiltered view showing you all orders placed during the current trading day. The Working view displays only the working orders. The Filled view shows only orders that are partially or completely filled. Refer to the View Tabs section for a more detailed description of Order Book views.

The Order Book also allows you to print the contents of a view, pull or revise orders and retrieve additional Order Details.

To open a new Order Book, Click Order Book from the Main window’s New Item Menu.

TIP: You can now enable keyboard based order entry and revision tickets. To enable them go to Main window properties, Main tab and enable the 'Keyboard Order Entry' setting. This will display a simple order ticket at the bottom of the Order Book.

  1. Properties Brings up the properties for the orderbook
  2. Print Toggle between print, copy to excel, copy to clipboard, and check options
  3. Default Sort Sort descending by order submission time
  4. Sort Lock Locks the columns and does not allow you to sort them.
  5. Pull All Pulls all the orders out of the market
  6. View Tabs Change tabs to view different order books
  7. Total Orders Total number of orders displayed in the current view
  8. Columns Columns to display. You can add or remove the columns in the Order Book Properties
  9. Filter Bar Gives you the ability to filter the order book by exchange and to filter accounts. This is helpful if you have multiple accts and only want to see one accts activity not all.

View Tabs

The view tabs are used to switch between filtered views of your orders. Simply click the tab for the orders you desire to see. If you want to see multiple views at the same time create a new Order Book and set the additional view.

Columns

By default the most common columns are visible in a new Order Book. Many more columns are available and can be added in the Order Book Properties, Columns Tab.

Submission Speed

Located in your Orderbook Properties You can add a column that will tell you the round-trip time of your order submission in milliseconds.

TIP: This is in real time and it is telling you the full round trip time from the order being generated (clicking to submit) and receiving a confirmation from the exchange.

Column Layout

The Order Book’s column layout is fully customizable. Drag the column header to move, drag the column header side border to resize, and click the column header to resort.

Moving Columns

Move a column within the grid by dragging the column header with your pointer or mouse.

Resizing Columns

Resize the width of a column within the grid by dragging with your pointer or mouse.

Sorting Columns

Click on a column header to sort the grid. Click again to reverse the sort.

Note: not all grids can be sorted.

Descending order.

Ascending order.

Account Toggle

The account toggle is only useful if you have multiple accounts. By clicking the toggle you switch between viewing the orders for just the Currently Trading Account and the orders for all your accounts. This can help you focus on the specific account you are trading for.

Toggle between viewing orders for all accounts and orders for the Currently Trading Account.

Order Book Menu

The Order Book menu is opened by right clicking on one or multiple orders. The menu items only act upon the selected orders. The following options are available from the Order Book menu:

Order Details

The Order Details window has multiple panes for displaying a detailed history of your order. If multiple orders are selected then one Order Details window will be opened for each order. All available order detail is displayed. The columns will be the same as what are available for an Order Book. For a description of the columns see the Order Book Columns section. The detail displayed is just a snap shot at the time the window is open. You may need to refresh the information to be sure it reflects the latest state of your order.

Create by using the Order Details option of the Order Book Menu.

  1. Copy to Clipboard Copy data into the clipboard in order to paste it into any other document
  2. Excel Button Save trade details to an excel spreadsheet.
  3. Trade History Lists any fill details for the order. Since an order can be filled at multiple prices you can review the volumes and prices of each individual fill.
  4. Trade Legs Lists any leg fill details for the order. This only applies to strategy orders where the exchange provides fill details for the individual legs of the strategy. For example a March-June spread would provide trade information for the strategy itself, plus it may provide the trade information for the individual March and June legs.
  5. Order History Displays the history of the order, from submission to completion, including details of any revisions, fills and pulls.
  6. Scroll Bar Move scroll bar to view additional trade details.
  7. Refresh Trade Information The Order Detail window does not update dynamically so if the order has changed since the window was opened then you need to click Refresh to see the most recent details.
  8. Close Window Closes the Order Detail window.

Accessories Dropdown

The print button allows you to print directly from the Order Book. You can print as many or as few orders as you want. Select the desired orders in the Order Book and then click the print button. To print the entire Order Book leave all the orders un-selected and then click the print button.

Drop Down Arrow:

Print:

Save to PDF:

* Saves orderbook data to a PDF format

Copy to Clipboard:

Save to Excel:

Open Checked, Save Checked:

Default Sort

Click the Default Sort button in the upper left corner of the Order Book to sort descending by order submission time.

Pull All

Click the Pull Button to pull all the orders out of the market. This can be movoed or removed by going to the global properties/Order Book.

Order Book Properties

Some Order Book properties can be configured in the Order Book Tab in the Main Properties window. The Order Book property pages are used to further customize how information is displayed. Columns can be added, removed, and reordered. The view’s font can also be increased or decreased.

Click the Properties button in the upper left corner of the Order Book to open the Order Book Properties.

Layout Tab

The Layout tab is used to override the default grid font. You are able to set a custom font size for a specific Order Book.

Columns Tab

The Columns tab is used to add, remove Order Book columns.