4.5 Orders Window

The Orders window displays all orders placed by your Trader Group including their status. You open it by selecting Window > Orders in the Main menu.

Long orders (orders entered on a previous trading day that are still alive) are also displayed.

Right-clicking one or several orders will open the context menu which provides you with the following actions:

Function Description

Filter Settings

There are three ways to filter the window:

  1. Filter on Market or Instrument in the drop-down list. This setting is labeled Scope in the filter bar at the bottom of the window.

  2. Right-click a grid cell and select Show only rows where….and then an appropriate option. In the following example, a Price cell was right-clicked, allowing the user to filter according to a number of price related options:

    For example, if you in this case would select the fifth option in the figure above, the window would only show orders with a price larger or equal to 10 SEK. Right-click a Date cell and you will be able to filter in a similar way on dates etc.

  3. Enter a filter manually in the Filter field, which is a free text field. Press <Enter> on your keyboard to activate it. For example:

    • Type the letter A to find all rows that have the letter A in any of their fields.

    • Type AB to find all rows that have AB in any of their fields.

    • Type the number 5 to find all rows that have 5 in any of their fields.

    It is also possible to limit your search criteria to a specific field. For example:

    • Type Price:23 to find all rows that have the value 23 in the Price field.

    • Type Price:> 23 to find all rows that have a value greater than 23 in their Price field.

    • Type Price:< 23 to find all rows that have a value smaller than 23 in their Price field. You type it like this:

    It is also possible to specify search criteria for two (or more) fields. For example:

    • Type A B to find all rows that have A OR B in any of their fields.

    • Type NG-1 NG-2 to find all rows that have NG-1 OR NG-2 in any of their fields. You type it like this:

    • Type A Price:< 23 to find all rows that have the letter A in any of their fields AND a value smaller than 23 in their Price field.

    • Type A B Price:< 23 to find all rows that have the letter A OR B in any of their fields AND a value smaller than 23 in their Price field.

    • Type status:active side:buy to find all rows with Order Status field set to Active and Side field set to Buy. You type it like this:

    • Upper/lower case is ignored as indicated above

At the bottom left corner of the Orders window, the filter criteria are displayed. At the bottom right, the number of displayed rows and the total number of rows is shown. For example: “Rows 9[17]” would mean that an unfiltered window would display 17 rows, and that the current filter displays 9 out of these 17 rows.

Click the No Filter button, or press the <Esc> key on your keyboard, to clear all filters.

Note: Filters are applied on all columns, not just the visible ones.

Field Description

To view field descriptions, do the following:

  1. Open the Properties window in the client

  2. In the Orders window, click an Instrument.

  3. In the Properties window, right-click and ensure that the Description Area is shown.

  4. To display a field description in the Description Area, click the field.

Multiple Instances

You can have multiple instances of the Orders window open at the same time. The purpose of this is to allow you to apply different filters for each instance.

To open a new instance of the window, simply select Window > Orders in the Main menu again.

Scroll Documents

Documents in this context means the instances of the Market View, Orders, Trades and Order History windows. You can scroll through these instances by clicking the left or right arrow buttons, or you can open a list of all documents by clicking the down arrow button.

Columns

The Orders window has a number of columns that are displayed by default. You can sort the displayed information by clicking the column headings, and you can rearrange the columns directly in the window by drag and drop. To add or remove visible columns, right-click a column heading to open the Select Visible Columns dialogue.

Export

The Export-button in the upper right corner allows you to export the contents of the table to a file (Excel, CSV). The current sorting order and filtering will be respected during the export. An appropriate filename describing the contents and time of generation will be generated for you, but is possible to modify.

4.5.1 Modifying or deleting an order

To modify an order, right-click it and select Modify Order in the context menu, or double-click it, to open the Order Panel, which will be in Modify Order state. The Modify Order state is no different from the New Order state, so for detailed information regarding the Order panel, refer to 4.1 above.

If the order being modified is modified or deleted by the exchange or by another user while displayed in the Order Panel a warning is displayed and if the order was deleted, order modification is canceled.There are three ways to delete an order:

Depending on your application settings, an Order Modification / Deletion confirmation dialogue may appear asking you to confirm your action. Refer to 3.5 above for more information on confirmation dialogues.

Tip:

One way to quickly cancel all orders at the same time is to use your keyboard and do multi select (Ctrl + A) and then press the <Delete> key.

4.5.2 Order modification rules

You may not change the Instrument or side as this will cancel the order and create a new one.

The basic rule is that the priority of an order is retained if the volume is reduced. Increasing the volume or changing the price will result in the loss of priority.

For more information on this, refer to the Member Rules document which is available on the NGM Member Group web page.