Trading settings

Default volume

Set the default board lots you wish to see in the "Order Entry" window. (A board lot is a standardized number of shares defined by a trading venue as a trading unit).

Default valid

The number of days an order should be valid for.

Default order type

When opening an "Order entry" window, this setting allows you to specify the default order type.

Default portfolio

Useful if you have access to more than one portfolio.

Default active

Orders can be sent as active or inactive to your trading service.

Default comment

Some trading services allow for sending comments. Use the "Default comment" field if you want to include information in a comment by default.

Default broker

Select your preferred broker.

Custom volume increment

The volume field of an "Order Entry" window can be made to increase or decrease by a certain amount when clicking on the up and down arrows or using the up and down arrows on your keyboard.

Limit per order

Set the currency value per order as a limit. If you exceed the limit per order, the gross price field will highlight in red and you will receive a warning.

Limit per day

As with the limit per order, you can also specify a currency value limit per day. You will also receive a warning.

Limits currency

Set the currency of the limits.

Confirm order request

If this checkbox is selected, you will be asked to confirm before the order is placed.

Fat finger alert

Specify how far away from the current bid/ask spread the price you enter should be before it triggers a warning. This is useful to safeguard against typing in extra numbers by accident. For example , the user my have entered 2000 instead of 200 as the price.

Short selling warning

Checks the volume of long positions in your portfolio for an instrument you are selling and warns you if you are selling more than you own.

Confirm order executed

Get a confirmation when the trading service confirms your order as executed.

Tick size warning

Warns you when the price you enter violates tick size rules of the trading venue.

Show alert on incoming care order

Get an alert if a care order was received from the trading service.

Allow multiple windows

By default, only one is shown in the Infront Professional Terminal.

Keep open

When an order was placed, the default is to close the new "Order" window. Use this setting to keep the new order window open.

Set background color for buy/sell

When placing a buy or sell order via the right-click menu or via keyboard shortcuts, the background color of the new order window will be colored green for buy orders and red for sell orders.

Shows advanced fields

When opening a new order window, defines whether the advanced fields should be shown immediately or hidden until you click the "Adv" button.

Auto-expand advanced fields

If the "Shows advanced fields" checkbox is cleared, tabbing with your keyboard through the new order window will make the advanced fields show up automatically after gross price.

Enable gross price field

The gross price field is displayed in an order entry window. This option switches on the ability to type in your own gross price. If you have also entered a price, then the closest volume corresponding to the gross price will be calculated for you. In the example below, a price of 347 and gross price of 100,000 was entered. The terminal then calculated a volume of 288 automatically.

Do not resize linked order windows

In a compact workspace, it may be desirable to not resize the new order window when changing instruments.

Hit orderbook, Join orderbook

When opening an new order window buy clicking the "BUY" button (or "SELL" button):

• "Hit orderbook" will place the price at the best ask price (best bid price for SELL orders)

• "Join orderbook" will place the price as the best bid price (best ask price for SELL orders)

Price Tick Size Factor

(Available for FX RFQ trading only.) When increasing or decreasing the price of a new order with the up and down arrows, this will multiply by a factor of X with the tick size rules.

Example: If the factor is set to 3, and the tick size is 0.0001, then clicking the up arrow on the price field will increase the price by 0.0003.

Buy/Sell button

When opening a new order window by selecting BUY or SELL from a right click menu or using keyboard shortcuts. This setting defines the behaviour of the BUY and SELL buttons.

• "Normal": Both "BUY" and "SELL" buttons show up and function as normal.

• "Make default": The "BUY" or "SELL" button (depending on what you choose) will be highlighted and pressing <ENTER> on your keyboard will cause the order to be placed.

• "Disable other": Will show you but not allow you to click on the SELL button if you have chosen to BUY from the right-click menu or keyboard shortcuts. Or it will disable the "BUY" button if you have chosen to sell.

• "Hide other": If you have chosen "BUY" from the right-click menu or keyboard shortcuts, then the SELL button will be hidden. Or the the "BUY" button will be hidden if you have chosen to sell.

Hit on volume

• In orderbook

• In new order

Allow multiple windows

The default is to only show one.

Keep deleted orders

If selected, deleted orders will also be shown on the "Orders" tab.

Column filtering

Allows the user to filter orders based on various criteria. Below is an example where it is possible to choose to only show portfolio positions in a particular currency.

Allow inline modification of order

Allows the user to edit an order's price or volume by clicking in the field ("Orders" tab) without having to open an order window.

Show fractional prices

For some markets, the convention is to use fractions instead of decimals.

Show Turn Order buttons

For active orders, this feature allows you to change a buy order to a market sell order (turns sell orders to market buy orders). These buttons show up on the "Orders" tab.

Show Multiple Delete Buttons

If this feature is turned off, then only one "Delete" button is shown. Select the order and delete it. If it is turned on, three extra options are available: "Delete Buy", "Delete Sell", "Delete All".

Blink for new orders

New orders placed will blink on the "Orders" tab.

Blink for new partially filled orders

Partially filled orders placed will blink on the "Orders" tab.

Automatically refresh portfolio

When an order is placed or executed, check for updates to the portfolio.

Request market data

Infront Professional Terminal will request the market data even if the user has not opened the market in their workspace. Turn this off for a small performance boost if you have a very large portfolio.

Live market data

Enable live market data updates.

Support order VWAP column

Show the VWAP column.