Orders Preferences

• Globally: Retain the account across the entire workspace.
• Per Window: Retain the account for each TT Desktop window.

Sets the order quantity in floating order entry widgets. When this setting is enabled, clicking a Bid/Ask quantity in Market Grid or Spread Matrix seeds the order quantity with either the market quantity or your maximum order quantity, whichever is less. When disabled, clicking a Bid/Ask quantity seeds your default order quantity.

Sets the order quantity in floating order entry widgets. Dependent on the Seed with market quantity setting. When “Seed with market quantity” is enabled and this setting is enabled (checked), TT sets the order quantity to “0” if the market quantity is greater than your maximum order quantity.

When “Seed with market quantity” is enabled and this setting is disabled (unchecked), TT seeds the order quantity with either the market quantity or your maximum order quantity, whichever is less. This is the default behavior.

Seeds the settlement price in the Order Ticket for an instrument with no bid/ask market available. When unchecked, a price of “0” (zero) is seeded when there is no active market.

When enabled, the account dropdown in order entry widgets (e.g. Order Ticket and MD Trader) always forces the user to select an account when:

(1) The selected profile does not have an account assigned to it in TTUS, or

(2) More than one account is available for the profile/market combination.

When disabled, the account dropdown automatically populates with the first account in the list.

• Original Qty — Use the original order quantity. This is the default behavior.
• Working Qty — Use the working order quantity. When an order is selected, only the remaining working quantity of the order is seeded in the quantity field.

Note: Care orders and held orders always default to the original order quantity when selected in the Order Book or orders pane. However, child orders of care orders will seed the quantity based on this setting.

Note: You may toggle to display the Reject and Execute buttons by selecting the appropriate checkboxes.

These alerts can be refined to trigger with these three options:

• All orders
• Your own orders
• Orders that are not your own — Allows you to be alerted about new staged orders from other users without being unnecessarily alerted when you create a staged order.

• When enabled (checked): Orders entered in the daily and/or monthly prompt will automatically match the working order state with the 3M, TOM, and Cash rolling prompt orders with the same expiry date and vice versa.
• When disabled (unchecked): Orders entered in the daily and/or monthly prompt will not match the working order state with the 3M, TOM, and Cash rolling prompt orders with the same expiry date and vice versa.

The name and contract expiry for the instrument or strategy.

Total order quantity

Price of the order or fill.

Price at which to enter an order (Shown only when an order has an associated Trigger price, such as a TT Stop or TT If-Touched order)

Time In Force for the order.

Account number associated with the transaction.

The type of instrument or options strategy.

The workstation time the order or action was sent. In a shared order book, if users are in different time zones, the Time field will display in the local time of the initiated workstation and will not convert to the workstation times for users in other time zones.

For synthetic and algo orders, the Time field displays the local time based on where the Algo Server is located

TT user name of the trader associated with the transaction

For users who share an order book, this column allows you to determine which user submitted each order. You can also sort the orders by this column.

The type of instrument or options strategy.

Time the order was originally submitted.

Shows your position in queue (PIQ) for each of your orders at a given price level. The column is hidden by default. The PIQ value is displayed when you enable PIQ in your workspace preferences.

Displays an optional, user-defined text value from the Setup app or entered in the TextTT free-form text field in the Order Ticket. The value displayed in this column remains on submitted orders for tracking purposes in the TT system, but is not routed to the exchange.

You can show or hide the Text TT text box for a selected working order in the Order Toolbar. You can add or modify the text that displays in the TextTT column for the selected order.

In the Position Manager widget, you can now edit the TextTT column for Local Fills and Admin Fills. However, this is not available for Admin SODs.

Note: For Autospreader orders submitted by an ADL algo, the value is populated with the order tag of the parent algo order.

When this setting is unchecked, consider the following:

• The Cancel button drop-down menu options (“Cancel Buys”, “Cancel Sells”, and “Cancel All”) are disabled.
• The optional, separate Cancel All button is disabled if shown.
• The optional, separate “Cancel” buttons in Spread Matrix are disabled if shown.
• The Cancel button itself is still enabled and can be used to delete one or more selected orders in the Order Book, Orders and Fills, and Algo Dashboard widgets.
• The “Cancel” buttons in MD Trader and Chart trading are still active.
• Hotkeys set to cancel or delete orders are still active.