Time & Sales window

NOTE: Standard Edition is limited to 1 Time & Sales window; Professional Edition allows an UNLIMITED number of Time & Sales windows open simultaneously.

A Time & Sales window provides information about every bid, ask, and trade streaming from the market. Each row displayed represents either a new trade, a new bid, or a new ask that is sent by the streaming data source.

Each line in a Time & Sales window is marked with a color to make it easier to distinguish between various conditions.

Coloring rules are:

• light green background means NEW ASK
• light red background means NEW BID
• normal (white) background means NEW TRADE
  
• Red text for bid/ask price/size means that the value is LESS than the previous value of the same category
  (for example, bid price written in red letters means that the new BID is lower than the previous bid price. A green volume field means that the volume of the last trade or ask/bid size is greater than the last trade volume or ask/bid size)
  
• Red last trade price means trade occurring on or below the current bid
  
• Green text for bid/ask price/size means that the value is GREATER than the previous value.
  
• Green last trade price means trade occurring on or above the current ask.
  
• Black text for bid/ask price/size/volume means that the value is the same
  
• Black last trade price means trade occurring inside the current bid-ask range (greater than the bid and less than the ask)
  

Time & Sales window in version 5.30 shows some "recent statistics" regarding trading, namely:

• number of trades and average # of trades per second
• number of trades and shares traded at the ask or above
• number of trades and shares traded at the bid or below
• ask minus bid difference expressed in the number of trades and shares
• ask minus bid difference expressed as a percentage ratio to total trades/total volume traded
  

A little background:
Ask minus bid: the positive numbers represent more transactions occurring on the ASK side than on the BID side. This in theory may mean more buying than selling, but in practice things are largely dependent on the security traded. Especially, dark liquidity pools do not show in order books and may report trades to the tape several seconds later, thus invalidating the relationship between bid/ask and actual trade prices.

IMPORTANT:
These are temporary, short-term stats - they cover ONLY trades displayed in the T&S window since the opening of the window or
resetting stats.

You can reset statistics using the right-click menu: "Reset Stats"