Back Office Bridge - User Manual - Trading Technologies

Global Settings1. Capture price calculationFigure 13: Global Settingsa. Average – If the trader‟s position in a contract is long for the day, the internalposition price will be calculated by taking the average of all the buy fills forthat day for that contract. If the trader‟s position in a contract is short for theday, the internal position price will be calculated by taking the average of allthe sell fills for that day for that contact.b. FIFO – If selected, fill matching is done on a First In, First Out basis. Positionprices are calculated by taking the average price of the remaining openposition.c. LIFO – If selected, fill matching is done on a Last In, First Out basis. Positionprices are calculated by taking the average price of the remaining openposition.2. Risk Manager timeout (in minutes) – Allows the user to specify how long to givethe Risk Manager to download the traders from Guardian before closing Back OfficeBridge. This allows TT Chron to re-launch Back Office Bridge so that the Risk Managercan log in again, in case it had not properly connected the first time. This value shouldbe set long enough so that Back Office Bridge is not restarted if the trader download isproceeding slowly, but short enough so that if the Risk Manager login did not properlyconnect to Guardian and is not downloading traders, no task events (Captures orPublishes) are missed before Back Office Bridge can be restarted.3. Delete files older than – If checked, this option gives the user the ability to have logand capture files automatically deleted after the specified time. These files are foundin C:\tt\Prof Serv\Back Office Bridge\applog and C:\tt\Prof Serv\Back OfficeBridge\positions\.4. Never publish – Tells Back Office Bridge to never publish a task to the server. Thissetting applies to all Tasks. This is mainly used for testing purposes. With this optionchecked, the publish action will run all the internal processes of a normal publish butwill not publish the records to Guardian. For positions, the publish file contains the setof records that Back Office Bridge would have published if this flag had not beenchecked. For currencies and margins, the publish file contains the updates that wouldhave been published to Guardian. By default, Never publish is checked.20 Back Office Bridge TM System Administration ManualTrading Technologies International, Inc.