Quotes
Last updated
Last updated
Quotes, which represent the price at which a seller or buyer is willing to make a deal, are one of the most important indicators of the current state of the market. The Quotes window displays not only the latest data for each of the selected financial instruments, but also other information characterizing the current state of the trading session. The Quotes window can be opened from Main Menu | View | Quotes.
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The properties of the Quotes window can be opened using the context menu or using the Properties button located on the window title bar.
Attention! The settings of the "Background row color" and "Font settings" properties that you have chosen can be returned to default using the "Select default settings" button located to the right of the drop-down menu for this property. The application of custom settings is indicated by a red indicator on the "Select Default Settings" button.
Instruments - Adding instruments to the tracked list.
Fields of the Select Instruments window:
Data provider - Select a Data provider
Type - Selection of instrument type.
Market - Market selection.
Instruments - List of available Instruments. The Add Instrument button adds the Instrument to the Selected Instruments list. This list will be displayed in the Quotes window.
Selected instruments - List of selected instruments. The "Up" arrow moves the selected element up in the list of added tools. The "Down" arrow moves the selected item down in the list of added tools.
Extra options.
In the Instruments field, you can filter using a search mask. There are 2 types of matching available: mask and symbol.
Do not show strikes - excludes strikes from the list of instruments.
Do not show the expired ones - excludes expired instruments from the list of instruments.
Expiration - Select the type of expiration:
after;
before;
exactly.
Choice of expiration date. If the market you select is too large and the server disconnects you, try selecting/adding instruments in small increments.
You can apply filters in the "Quotes" window table.
Using the SHIFT button, you can select a group of tools in the table. For example, in order to remove experienced futures market instruments or those that you are not interested in and do not work with.
The "Quotes" window supports the Drag&Drop technology, which allows you to transfer elements from quotes to the "Chart" window, and if there are several sources on the chart, you will be asked to choose which of these data sources to link the security to.
Select a quote. By holding the left mouse button, drag the quote to the open chart. The chart will load instrument
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Instrument
The name of the instrument.
Ticker
Ticker (unique code or symbol) of the issue (financial instrument).
Market
The name of the trading platform.
Data provider
The name of the data provider.
Lot size
The number of securities in the lot.
Price
The price of the last transaction in the market.
%change
The relative change in the price of the last trade compared to the closing price of the previous trading day.
Volume
The trading volume for the financial instrument, fixed on the current trading day (number of pieces).
Bid
The best demand price on the market.
Ask
The best offer price on the market.
Open price
The opening price of a financial instrument, fixed on the current trading day.
Weighted average
The weighted average price of transactions in a financial instrument, fixed based on the results of transactions of the current trading day.
Close price
The closing price for a financial instrument, fixed on the previous trading day.
Change
The absolute change in the price of the last trade compared to the closing price of the previous trading day.
Max
The maximum price of transactions for a financial instrument, fixed on the current trading day.
Min
The minimum price of transactions for a financial instrument, fixed on the current trading day.
Turnover
Trading volume for a financial instrument, fixed on the current trading day, number of pieces.
Trades Qty
The number of deals on a financial instrument during a trading day.
Previous Price
The price of the previous trade.
WAChange
The absolute change in the weighted average price indicator, calculated based on the results of transactions of the current day, compared with the same indicator for the previous trading day.
SumBid
The total volume of demand in the market for a financial instrument (number of pieces).
The total number of lots to buy in the order queue. Cached in ticks. For work it is better to use second bars. 1 minute = 60 seconds. To work on crypto markets, you need to open a queue of applications. Block in the editor "Total demand"
Orders to buy
Cumulative number of purchase orders.
The total number of purchase orders in the order queue. Not cached. It does not work on crypto markets. Block in the editor "Total Demand"
SumAsk
The total volume of supply in the market for a financial instrument (number of pieces). The total number of lots for sale in the order queue. Cached in ticks. For work it is better to use second bars. 1 minute = 60 seconds. On crypto markets, you need to open the order queue window, in which case the value will be filled in the Quotes window. Block in the editor "Total offer"
Orders to sell
The total number of orders to sell.
The total current number of sell orders in the order queue. Not cached. To work, you can additionally use the Save to global cache block. Does not work on crypto markets. Block in the editor "Total offer".
Buy deposit
Buyer's basic margin on covered positions (only for futures and options). In Spot cryptoconnectors, the value of the instrument is given in bitcoins. On crypto futures, the value of the minimum lot or contract in the collateral coin is supplied, depending on the market.
Sell deposit
Basic margin on uncovered positions (only for futures and options). In Spot cryptoconnectors, the value of the instrument is given in bitcoins. On crypto futures, the value of the minimum lot or contract in the collateral coin is supplied, depending on the market.
Upper limit
Upper limit of order prices (for FORTS). "Market bar from above" in the current session.
Lower limit
Lower limit of order prices (for FORTS). "Market bar from below" in the current session.
Open interest
For deals with a premium and deals for a period - the number of outstanding contracts with a premium at a certain time, the term of which has not expired (for FORTS).
Volatility
Financial instrument volatility, in % (for FORTS options).
Theoretical Price
Theoretical price (for options).
PriceStepCost
The cost of the minimum quote step of the instrument in the instrument's nomination currency.
HighestBid
The highest bid price during the trading session.
LowestAsk
The lowest offer price during the trading session.
Status
The current status of trades in the financial instrument (trades, auction, secondary trades, blocked, etc.).
TradingOn
A mark on the presence of trades (if the information is provided by the broker).
Updated
The time the data was last updated.
Custom window title
The name of the window displayed on the tab
Use alternating row colors
Highlighting every second line with an alternative color.
Background row color
Table row background color
Font settings
Select font type and size.
Window caption in floating mode
Hide/Show the title bar of the window.
Columns caption
Hide / Show table column names.
If price changes
Changing the type of animation used to display a change in the price of a security:
"no animation" (no animation when the security price changes);
"discrete animation" (discrete change in the highlighting of the colors of the price change);
"animation" (smooth change in the highlighting of the colors of price changes, with a large number of quotes, it can consume a significant amount of computer resources).
Arrows at %change
Hide/Show arrows when updating information about price changes.
Adding quotes to the table of the "Quotes" window.
Moves the quote selected in the table up or down.
Deleting the selected quote from the table of the "Quotes" window.
Properties
Opens the properties of the "Quotes" window.
Orders Manager
Creating an "Orders Manager" window for the selected instrument.
Chart
Creating a "Chart" window showing the price dynamics for the selected instrument.
Depth of Market
Creating a "Depth of Market" window for the selected tool.
All Trades
Creating an "All Trades" window for the selected instrument.
Show at
Moves the Quotes window to one of the existing sheets.
Clone window
Creates a copy of the Quotes window.
