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By default the most common columns are visible in a new Quote board many more columns are available and can be added in the Quote board properties.
Default Columns¶
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| Contract | The contract description. |
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| Market | The contract month being quoted. |
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| Market Mode | Displays the status of the market. |
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| Open | The market is open for trading. |
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| Blocked | Risk management is actively blocking the account because it violates at least one of the rules set up by your Administrator. |
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| PreClosed | The pre close period has been entered for the current market. The market is still open but will close very soon. |
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| PreOpen | The pre open period has been entered for the market. Orders may be entered but no fills will occur. |
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| Closed | The market is currently closed for trading at the exchange. |
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| Failed | The market has failed at the exchange. |
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| Halted | The exchange has halted all trading of the market. |
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| RestrictedOpen | The market is open but the exchange has placed restrictions on trading. |
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| Suspended | The exchange has suspended trading of the market. |
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| Net Change | The net change of the market for the current trading day. This would be the difference between the previous trading day’s settlement price and where the market is currently trading. |
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| History | A histogram of the last 1-100 trades |
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| Last Trade Price | The price at which the most recent trade occurred. |
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| Last Trade Volume | Last Trade Volume can be displayed as the last trade volume or the total volume of consecutive trades at the current price |
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| Bid Price | The best bid price. This will be the highest bid price that has volume. It will be the first of all bid volume to trade. |
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| Bid Vol | The number of contracts available at the best bid price. |
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| Offer Price | The best offer price. This will be the lowest offer price that has volume. It will be the first of all offer volume to trade. |
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| Offer Volume | The number of contracts available at the best offer price. |
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Other Account Columns¶
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| Loss Limit | The amount of cash you are able to lose in a single trading day. If this value is blank then you don’t have a loss limit. |
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| Loss Limit % | The amount of cash you are able to lose in a single trading day as a percent of your Total Balance. |
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| Min Balance | The minimum balance the clearing firm is requiring you to keep in your account at all times. This amount is subtracted from your balance when checking margin requirements. |
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| Total Balance | The start of day balance of your account. |
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| Total Margin | The total margin you are being required to pay for all the positions for the account. |
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| Total Overnight UP&L | Unrealized profit and loss for your accounts overnight positions. This is the P&L between any fills from previous days and the last settlement price. |
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| Total RP&L | Realized profit and loss for your account. This is the profit and loss for positions that have been closed out. |
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| Total UP&L | Unrealized profit and loss for your account. This is the P&L between any open position fills and the current best bid or offer prices. If no bid or offer price is available then the last trade or settlement price is used. |
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| Warning Loss Limit | Indicates account is close to loss limit for the day |
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| Warning Margin | Indicates account is close to margin limits for the day |
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| Warning P&L | Indicates account is close to P&L loss for the day |
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| Warning Summary | Summary of all account warning parameters |
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Other Position Columns¶
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| Buys | The total number of contracts bought in the market for this trading day. |
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| Margin | The amount of margin required for your position and working orders in the market. |
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| Overnight UP&L | Unrealized profit and loss for your overnight positions in each market traded. This is the P&L between any fills from previous days and the last settlement price. |
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| RP&L | Realized profit and loss for your positions in each market traded. This is profit and loss for positions that have been closed and the prices are known. |
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| Sells | The total number of contracts sold in the market for this trading day. |
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| UP&L | Unrealized profit and loss for your position in the market. This is the P&L between any open position fills and the current best bid or offer prices. If no bid or offer price is available then the last trade or settlement price is used. |
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| Working Buys | The number of buy contracts you have working in the market. |
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| Working Sells | The number of sell contracts you have working in the market. |
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| Worst | Your worst case position in each market if some or all of your working orders get filled. |
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