Broker Workstation allows a market maker to take orders from his order book, cross orders in the order book, as well as send orders to and recall orders from an exchnage..
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In the top of the table you have four buttons: "Activate/Deactivate"- to activate the account manipulation, "Take/Cede Control"- to take or cede control of an order book, "Group Details"- to see the information about the accounts in the order book group and "Refresh" to refresh the group's order book.
If you right click a row a menu will appear. You can select to cross between two orders of the same contract. |
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You can also choose to take, reject, send to exchange or recall from exchange an order.
The table can be sorted as you wish. Clicking on a column header will sort the data in the table ascending or alphabetically, depending on the type of the column. Clicking again on the same header, will sort the data descending/reverse alphabetically. A little arrow will appear to show how the data is sorted.
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In the upper-left corner of the frame, there is an expand/collapse cross. You can use that to expand or collapse all net positions shown:
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There are eight filters in the form of checkboxes you can use. By checking or uncheck them, you can choose to show/hide fill positions, open positions, working orders, rejected orders, cancelled orders, cancel/replaced orders, parked orders or suspended orders.
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In the lower part of the frame, there is a status bar. It displays the futures, options and net profit/loss.
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All values should be considered for illustrating the functionality of the software and should not stand as a real-life example.
