spark/doc/user/docs/Market.md

#Market

• This is one of the main items on the module launcher
• When hovering over it, it will show 2 different modules which can be launched from it, market view and then, time and sales
• It appears like the below:

##Market View

• This provides a grid of outright, spread, and synthetic products showing real-time market data all in one place
• You can create multiple market view grids and customize the security selection to fit your needs
• All market views are brought up as tabs and can be combined with all other windows within BTS
• You choose which products you would like to view upon launching it, the security browser will appear as shown below:

• Click on individual securities that you wish to view and click add, they will then show up in the selected securities window below.  If you wish to remove a security, simply highlight and click remove to the right of the selected securities window.
• If you would like to view all securities for a particular product, you can click on the symbol and leave the securities section alone and all securities will be displayed.  This will show up in the selected securities window as “<symbol> future at <exchange>”
• Synthetics can be displayed by clicking on exchange “BTS”, then synthetic, symbol, and finally under the securities window.
• Below is an example of an outright, spread, all futures, and synthetic chosen:

• Clicking OK will bring up the Market View with the selected securities you have chosen, in this example, it appears like the following:

• Once a market view is launched and you are viewing data, you can customize the view further by the following:

  • Sorting - by single left clicking on any of the column headers it’ll sort that column in either descending or ascending order
  • Filtering - by hovering over the column header, a filtering box will appear like below:

  

  • All columns let you sort by that columns minimum and maximum information in a box that appears like the following:

  

  • Specifically for the securities column, there is a search box that will appear by bringing up the filtering box, which enables users to type the security in which they are looking for.  This appears like the following:

• Besides viewing the market data, you can do a lot within the market view by utilizing the icons to the left of the main window, these include:

  • Change securities
  • Launch a ladder for one or more securities
  • Launch an order ticket
  • Launch a fills window for one or more securities
  • Launch a time and sales for one or more securities
  • Launching the synthetic window to create a synthetic product

• Change securities

  • Click on the settings icon which will launch the market view security selection.  You can add or remove Securities you have already selected and are shown in the market view.

• Launch an order ticket

  • This is done 1 of 2 ways:

    • Single left clicking on either the Bid Qty, Bid Price, Ask Price, or Ask Qty which will bring up an order ticket pre-populated with either the Bid or Ask price and volume.
    • Highlighting a single security and clicking on the order ticket  icon on the left-hand browser window of the market view

• Launch a ladder for 1 security

  • You can double-click on any security in the market view, besides the Bid Qty, Bid Price, Ask Price, or Ask Qty columns to launch a ladder for that Security.

• Launching multiple ladders

  • If you hold down the Ctrl key and select multiple securities, you can then click on the ladder icon  on the left-hand side to bring up the selected ladders all at once.

• Launching a Fills window for 1 or many securities

  • This is done by either highlighting 1 or many securities and then clicking on the Fills icon  on the left-hand side to bring up a fill window for the selected securities.  

    • Please note - If there haven’t been any fills for the day in that particular security, an empty fill window will be displayed

• Launching Time and Sales for 1 or many securities

  • This is accomplished by highlighting 1 or many securities and then clicking on the time and sales icon  on the left-hand side

• Launching the synthetic window to create a synthetic product

  • This is accomplished by highlighting either 1 or 2 securities and clicking on the Synthetic icon  on the lower left-hand side

    • Please note - If only 1 security is chosen, a create synthetic window will appear, and you will be required to add another leg from that window to create the synthetic

##Time and Sales

• Provides a display of real-time fills as they happen for 1 or many securities
• You can create multiple time and sale windows and customize the security selection to fit your needs
• All time and sales are in brought up as tabs and can be combined with all other windows within BTS
• On launching a security browser will appear, allowing you to choose the products you would like to view.

• From time and sales, you can launch the same items as the market view with the exception of a launching the synthetic window to create a synthetic product