The Order Ticket

When you click the  button or the  button from the toolbar, the Order Ticket dialog box appears (see Figure 4.1 below).

    

Figure 4.1: Buy and Sell Order Tickets (partial view)

Note that the Buy Order Ticket dialog box has a blue background, whereas the Sell Order Ticket dialog box has a red background.

The order ticket title displays the selected contract, and the number that follows Pos: is the number of positions you currently have in this contract.

If you click the double arrow  (on the top line in the blue/red left hand side of the dialog box), you can toggle between a partial view of the Order Ticket dialog box (see Figure 4.1) and a full view which includes the Exit Strategies and Order Managements pane (see Figure 4.2 below).

 

 

Figure 4.2: Buy and Sell Order Ticket (full view)

The partial view is all you need in order to place a simple order (see Placing Simple Orders on page 25). You need to use full view when you want to use a bracket (see figure above).

The Order Ticket dialog box (full view) is divided into several areas, as described in the following table:

Table 4.1: The Order Ticket Dialog Box

Area	Fields	Use this field to:	Remarks
Type	Market	Select market order
	Stop	Select stop order	Simulated on our server
	Limit	Select limit order
	Stop limit	Select stop limit order	Simulated on our server
	MIT	Select a Market If Touched order	Simulated on our server
Details	Lots	Set number of lots
	Stop	Set stop price	Enabled for Stop and Stop Limit orders only
	Limit	Set limit price	Enabled for Limit orders only
	Stop Limit	Set stop limit price	Enabled for Stop Limit orders only
Action		Switch between Sell and Buy orders
Bid		Display only	Current bid price for this contract
Ask		Display only	Current ask price for this contract
Price		Display only	Current price for this contract

 

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