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Configuring J-Trader
Tab
Order Type
Enter
Default order type for a trade ticket.
For a description of supported order types, see Order Types (page 27).
Tick Size
Lots Buttons
Colours
How many ticks are displayed in the Hot Quotes tick bar: e.g. Globex Eurodollar frontmonths
trade in quarter-ticks, whereas back-months trade in halves. Using this feature,
you can set different tick-fractions per contract.
The actual tick size for a contract is defined in SARA, a separate application that only
your system administrator can use.
Values for the lots number pad, which appears in trade entry screens.
Set Default resets the values to those hard-coded for J-Trader.
Set Parent resets the values to those set for the item one step up in the tree hierarchy:
e.g. resets a contract date’s number pad to that used for the contract, or a contract’s
number pad to that set for the exchange.
Colours for grid cells (Background) and cell text (Foreground).
How you select colours is the same as in the Display tab (page 12).
Broadcast Message (Exchange level only)
Traded Lots
Reflector
Account
Allows broadcast messages from the selected exchange.
Default volume. You can overwrite this value in trading screens.
Number of price digits for columns on the Reflector screen:
Hold Price Ticks: Price column.
Hold Order Ticks: Order column.
Set default trader account for an exchange, contract or contract date
MEL Template Tab
You use the MEL Template tab of the Settings dialog for creating multi-legged strategies that are not
supported by exchanges: see Using Strategies (MELs) on page 53.
Reflector Tab
The Reflector tab of the Settings dialog looks like this:
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