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C H A P T E R 6
J-Trader Tools
The J-Trader tools are those items available from J-Trader’s Tools menu.
Overview of the Tools Menu
The Tools menu on J-Trader’s main menu gives you the following options:
Option
Scroll Ticker
Strategy Calculator
Flex Calculator
List Ticker
Bulk Order Input
Fill Window
What it’s for
Displaying your choice of trades, exchanges, contracts and contract dates in a ticker-style
layout.
See Using the Scroll Ticker (page 63).
Creating and calculating exchange-traded strategies.
See Creating Exchange-Supported Strategies (page 64).
Calculating option-pricing parameters, such as delta and gamma.
Warning: There are known problems with this tool, and you are advised not to use it. For
this reason, it is not described in this guide.
Displaying all options, futures, RFQs, block trades, and strategy trades for any number of
contracts on any number of exchanges: with immediate access to information on pricing
and transactions.
See Using the List Ticker (page 67).
Submitting a large quantity of orders to an exchange in one go, using a pre-prepared
Excel spreadsheet.
See Submitting Bulk Orders (page 68).
Displaying fill alerts as they are received.
See Viewing Fills (page 73).
Using the Scroll Ticker
You can display (but not enter or amend) your choice of trades in a ticker-style scrolling layout.
This function is available only if your organisation has the required permission level. Please contact
your Patsystems Account Manager for more information.
Follow these steps:
1 From J-Trader’s main menu, select Tools Scroll Ticker.
2 By default, all contracts are selected. You can deselect contracts by clicking to open the left
pane...
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