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Trading With J-Trader
Field, etc
Lots
Enter or Select
dropdown selection list, using the Accounts tab (page 25).
Select or type the number of lots to trade.
5 To trade, click any of the following:
You can set a default number of lots per exchange, instrument and contract, using the
Settings screen, Contract tab (page 20).
Clicking here
Contract
Does this
Double-clicking on the Contract column calls up the DOM screen (page 32), from
where you can view the current depth of market, and enter orders. The screen displays
all bids and offers in the market in real time, with the best ones at the top of each list.
Tip: The DOM screen is a quick and convenient way to view depth of market. For
trading, however, the Patsystems Reflector screen, accessed by clicking Reflector,
offers more features.
Bid
Offer
Bid Vol
Offer Vol
Last
Creates limit orders.
If General tab (page 14) Disable Tick Bar is unticked, you get a tick bar for selecting
different bids/offers.
Creates an order whose type (market or limit) and volume (in the grid, or in the Lots
field) depend on which of the –Clicking on Size - Action— radio buttons you selected in
the Trading tab (page 16).
(Information only)
Shows you the 20 most recently traded prices, where Last + O is the last-traded price,
Last + 1 the last-but-one traded price, etc.
For MELs only, clicking in the Last cell gives a screen for calculating the price.
Reflector
Trade
Calls up a Patsystems Reflector screen, from where you can view depth of market,
join bids and offers, and take offers and hit bids.
Opens a trade ticket. From the Ticket > button on the trade ticket you can select: Basis,
Block, Against Actual, OCO and Cross trade types.
Note the following two buttons:
Block, Basis and AA are available only if the selected contract supports these trade
types.
Subscriber Depth opens a screen that breaks market depth into individual order volumes.
At Best (Sydney Futures Exchange only) opens a screen showing, for the best price, where
volumes are in the queue. Implied prices are shown with an asterisk.
6 To pull orders (ie, withdraw them from the exchange), you can use the following buttons:
^ Pull pulls bids only, offers only, or all the bids and offers for the selected contract.
Pull All pulls all bids and offers for contracts in this trader account (Account field).
In the Status screen, pulled orders move from the ‘working’ part of the screen to the ‘completed’
part.
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