Order book and tick tape

Order book settings, densities, rulers, tick tape.

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Order book display settingsWhat the order book panel consists of, what its elements mean and where which settings are: personal for the panel or common for all.

Order book depth and auto-centeringHow many levels the order book receives, how it scrolls and when it returns to the spread on its own.

DensitiesA density is a large order at one level. SmartDOM shows densities as a bar in the row, as highlighting and as markers outside the screen.

Measuring and hover rulerThe order book has two rulers: the measuring ruler, which you enable with a key, and the hover ruler, which appears on its own when you point at a price.

Tick tapeThe tick tape is the stream of exchange trades next to the order book. Each trade sits at its price opposite the order book row, new ones appear on the right…

Sweep tape (order book sweeps)The sweep tape shows not individual trades but sweeps: large market orders that went through several prices at once.

Tick line and volume as a numberThe tick line is a micro-chart of the price along the tick tape, and volume as a number is the label on each print.

Sweep depth and extreme sweepsHow the sweep tape labels the sweep depth and marks the strongest sweeps.

Large volume notificationsHow the terminal reports a large trade in the tick tape and how it marks large prints.