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The Market Watch Window

The Market Watch window enables you to display the quoted instruments listed on a stock
exchange and all related information.

Market Watch window: list of fields


GL WIN windows: list of main fields
Market Watch window menus

Information is presented in fields organized into lines and columns. You are able to display the
following information :

Field Name Description

Code Instrument mnemonic code

Symbol Instrument symbol

ISIN Code Instrument international code

Name Instrument name

Bid hour Time of last bid

Bid quantity Quantity of the best bid price

Bid price Best bid price


Ask quantity Quantity of the best selling price

Ask price Best selling price

Ask hour Time of last sale

Theo open qty Theoretical opening quantity

Theo open price Theoretical opening price

Theoretical opening variance according to the


Theo open var %
opening price

Last open price Last opening price

Last quantity
Quantity of last transaction
exchanged

Suspension flag Supension status

Group state Status of the suspended or closed group

Time of last price Time of last/best price

Total exchanged quantity by day and by


Volume
instrument

Capital exchanged Exchanged capital by day and by instrument

Opening price Opening price for the instrument

Max price allowed Maximum authorized price

Highest price Highest price of the working day

Lowest price Lowest price of the working day

Last price traded for the instrument. Yesterday's


Closing price
closing price

GL VWAP Average price of the instrument

Group number Group of the instrument

Index coefficient Coefficient of the value in the main index

Number of calls Number of buying options

Number of puts Number of selling options

Open position
For derivatives: number of open contracts
number

Nb Price request For derivatives: number of price requests

Currency Currency of the instrument

Stock type Type of the stock


Quantity of the best purchase price issued by the
MM Bid quantity
Market Maker

Number of orders Total number of orders for the instrument

Total number of lots Total number of lots

Number of lots traded Number of traded lots

Number of trades Number of transactions

Number of messages Number of messages

BLO Number of
Number of blocks of linked orders
linked orders

Uniquote: tool for comparing the price of one


Uniquote Ask
instrument on several markets

GL WIN windows: list of main fields - abbreviations:

Field Name Description

Ask = Ask price Best asking price for the instrument

Qty = Ask quantity Total quantity to sell

Bid = Bid price Best Bid price for the instrument

Qty = Bid quantity Total quantity to buy

B/S = Buy/Sell/Cross Market side buy/sell

Cap. Capital exchanged

Last price traded for the instrument


Close = closing price
Yesterday's closing price

Coef. Coefficient index

Compens. Compensation price

Number assigned by the central trading engine


N CTE
used for internal system purposes

Curr. Currency

Date Order entry date

High Highest price traded today

Infl. Index influence


Code Instrument code

Name Instrument name

Symb Instrument symbol

LOP Last opening price

Last Last traded price

Lqty Traded quantity of the last trade for the instrument

L Limit position

Low Lowest price traded today

Open Opening price for the instrument

Qdisp Displayed quantity

Qexe Quantity filled

Qmin Minimum order quantity

Qrem Quantity remaining, yet to be filled

St Status code

S Suspension flag: status of the market indicator

Tradph Trading phase a stock is currently in

Theoretical opening price displaying the price


TOP
while in the pre-opening phase

TOQ Theoretical opening quantity

Volume Total volume traded for the intrument

TON Trade order number

UID User ID

Valid Order validity type

Var Variation in relation to traded price

TOV Variation % open price

With the horizontal scrollbar, you can move from left to right to display fields that are not visible.
With the vertical scrollbar, you can move up and down to access the market summaries.
An instrument or a group of instruments can be highlighted with a specific color you define in the
Default Setup window. You can also enter a comment by instrument or group of instruments.
In the Market Watch window above:
Dark blue indicates the "71" instrument group.
Yellow indicates the "11" instrument group.
Pink indicates CAC40 instruments.
Grey indicates some index values.

Note:

All event colors are predominant so the suspended instruments are highlighted in red.

An increase or decrease of value for some fields can also be highlighted through specific colors
you define via the Display -> Colors... function. Then activate highlighting by selecting Display
-> Highlighting.
In the following example, every time there is an increase or decrease of the Bid price, Ask price,
Last price, bid Qty and offer Qty, these fields are highlighted in yellow for an increase and in red
for a decrease.
The Market Watch window includes the following menus:
Display
Instrument List
Orders
Sort by
Instrument Info
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