General

Modified on 2017/04/12 09:30 by Rob Rrickson (CTS) — Categorized as: Uncategorized

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  1. Change Password Change Password for your T4 login.
  2. Save Workspace to File Save your current workspace to a local xml file for later use and/or personal backup.
  3. Load Workspace from File Load your T4 workspace from the saved location.
  4. Load Workspace from user Load a previously saved workspace by username.
  5. Dual Workspace Allows user to save two different workspaces called Primary and Secondary. More than two work spaces can be used but any more than two must be saved locally on the client PC.
  6. Current Workspaces This is your current active workspace. Also allows you to switch between system layouts without having to restart.
  7. Force Right Click Displays a toggle on the main window that when checked causes the next left click to be treated as a right click.
  8. Top Most Whether T4 windows should be set to Top Most to say on top of other applications.
  9. Owner Form Enabled Allows you to minimize your main window without minimizing your entire work space.
  10. Last Trade Includes Spreads Whether or not last trade details include spread data or not.
  11. Implied Price Display Indicates with ( ) that some of the volume is implied through a spread. Implied prices can now be turned off completely.
  12. Implied Spread Positions Whether to display implied net position for spread markets or not. Account must be configured by Account or by Contract. (Contact your firm Administrator to check how your account is configured.)
  13. Use Held Settlement Some markets broadcast their settlements after the market is open. If enabled the late settlement will instantly be used in calculations.
  14. Use Implied Settlement Some strategy markets do not get settlement prices from the exchange. Enabling this allows the display of settlement prices implied from the strategy legs when there is no exchange provided settlement price.
  15. Depth Buffer Adjusts the market data refresh rate. Depending on market conditions and the buffer settings the refresh rate can go from 1 update a second to 20+ updates a second.
  16. Bandwidth Normal or Reduced. Reduced eliminates some market messages.One example is a wireless user would be more efficient.
  17. Trade Summary Some markets broadcast both the trade summary and a breakdown of individual order volumes that were part of the trade. if enabled only the summary volume is used. If disabled then the individual volumes that made up that trade are used.
    e.g. a 10 lot trades against two 5 lots. Trade Summary enabled will show a 10 lot trade. Trade Summary disabled will show two 5 lot trades.
    You may need to restart the application to see this change take full effect.
  18. Price Display(restart required) How to display prices. Click here to see the choices and examples. A save and restart of the platform is required.
  19. Strike Display(restart required) How to display prices. Click here to see the choices and examples. A save and restart of the platform is required.
  20. Contract Display Allows you to change the display names for the contracts. Click here to see the choices and examples. When you make the change you need to save your settings and log oout and back in for the change to take effect.
  21. Expiry Display Allows you to change the display of the Expiry Dates. Click here to see the choices and examples. When you make the change you need to save your settings and log oout and back in for the chnage to take effect.
  22. Account Messaging Whether or not account specific system messaging has been suppressed by the user.
  23. Bid/Offer P&L Display When enabled P&L is calculated and displayed off of bid/offer. Otherwise last trade is used.
  24. Advanced Whether the order ticked is displayed with advanced features.
  25. Price Protection Displays message that indicates if the order will be filled instantly.
  26. Submit Valid Only The order ticket will submit orders that are valid leaving invalid orders still in the list.
  27. Revision tracking The order ticket will stay open until manually closed or the orders are complete.
  28. Enabled Hide or show the keyboard entry tickets.
  29. Account Display Allows you to change how your acct is displayed.
  30. DDE Buffer Adjusts the market data refresh rate specific to the DDE feed. Depending on market conditions and the buffer settings the refresh rate can go from 1 update a second to 20+ updates a second.
  31. Replace Empty String The string that is returned in place of empty string when the calculated result is empty string.
  32. Open Office Whether the DDE format should be changed or Open Office support. This only effects how DDE formulas are built and copied into the clipboard. It does not prevent use of Excel and Open Office at the same time from a data streaming point of view.