Quotes
Last updated
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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.
| Menu item | Description |
|---|---|
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. |
| Menu item | Description |
|---|---|
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. |
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.
| Menu item | Description |
|---|---|
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. |
| Menu item | Description |
|---|---|
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:
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Arrows at %change | Hide/Show arrows when updating information about price changes. |
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
