Preferences

General Preferences

General preferences

Display

Click each preference in the Display section to see a list of options.

Preference	Description
Color Theme	Sets the color theme for each widget you open in your workspaces.
Language	Sets the language for your workspaces.
Background	Sets the background theme and color for your workspaces.
Context help	Enables tooltips for widgets. Select one of the following options: None -- Do not show tooltips. Simple -- Display tooltips as short descriptions of a widget, where available.
Product Symbology	Determines which type of product symbol to display in your workspace. Select one of the following: Exchange — Sets your workspace to show only the exchange symbol for products (e.g., "CL" for CME Crude Oil Futures products). Exchange (Bloomberg) — Sets the exchange symbol as primary. Products are displayed with the exchange symbol first and the Bloomberg symbol in parentheses (e.g., "CL (CL1)" for CME Crude Oil Futures products). Bloomberg (Exchange) — Sets the Bloomberg symbol as primary. Products are displayed with the Bloomberg symbol first and the exchange symbol in parentheses (e.g., "C01 (BRN)" for ICE Brent Crude Futures products). Notes: To use this setting, Bloomberg symbology must be enabled for your company by TT. Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this functionality. You must reload your workspace for this setting to take effect.
Use ClearPort symbology for CME	Sets the Trade application to display contract names recognized by CME ClearPort. Some ClearPort contract names use symbology that is different than what is used in CME Globex. For example, Natural Gas options (European) are listed as "LN" in Clearport, but listed as "LNE" in Globex. Check this option to enable the display of contract names using ClearPort symbology. When unchecked, contract names are displayed using CME Globex symbology. This option is unchecked by default. Note: Reload your workspace after changing this preference to apply the change. To reload, select File \| Refresh in the workspace title bar.
Display Spread/Strategy legs instead of Alias	Sets whether to display the commonly used alias name, or to display all legs of the instrument, including expiries, strikes, and quantities of individual legs.
Show titlebar clock	Sets whether to show the clock in the workspace menu bar.
Show scrollbars on workspaces	Shows/hides workspace window scroll bars. When this preference is checked (enabled), scroll bars are visible within the workspace. When this preference is unchecked (disabled), scroll bars are not visible and widgets will automatically move to remain visible within the workspace if you resize the workspace window to make it smaller. This preference is checked by default and scroll bars are visible.
Support high resolution displays	Sets whether to improve text display in grid-based widgets for very high-resolution monitors or displays, such as a MacBook Retina display. Note that the preference has no affect on other types of displays.

Prices and Quantities

Preference	Description
Display spread/strategy positions	Sets whether to display positions in exchange-listed spreads in addition to the positions of the spread legs. Note: To display the spread position as a spread SOD, the Create SOD records for Spread/Strategy Positions preference on your account must be enabled in the Setup application.
Show implied prices or quantities in pre-open	Sets whether to display implied prices and quantities when a contract is in a pre-open state.
Show decimal prices for fractional prices/ticks	Shows prices as decimals for instruments with fractional ticking and apostrophe price display. Note: If you change this setting, you must reload the workspace to see the changed display.
Increase/decrease prices and quantities with right/left mouse clicks	Sets whether the price and quantity controls adjust their values when left/right clicking your mouse buttons in the edit box. This feature defaults to checked meaning that the price and quantity values decrease when left-clicked and increase when right-clicked.
Average price rounding	Sets the rounding precision when displaying average fill prices. Select one of the following: Nearest Tick to round to the nearest tick Decimal places to display the selected number (1-8) of decimals
Quantity display decimal places	Sets the preferred number of decimal digits to show for fractional quantities. Click the selector to choose 0-8 decimal digits to display. If additional quantity is available, a "+" is shown to indicate the extra digits (e.g., 1.005+). The default value is "3" decimal places.
Quantity display thousands separator	Displays a comma or period thousands separator within large numeric quantity values. This setting does not apply to price values.
RFQ Quantity	Sets the default seeded quantity that appears when using the Submit RFQ Quantity context menu option. You can set a different value when using this functionality in the widget. Note This only affects widgets that support Submit with RFQ functionality.

Energy Quantities

Preference	Description
Contracts	Represents trading quantities for energy products as the entire delivery amount.
Flow	Represents trading quantities for energy products as the amount to be delivered in each delivery period.

Data Caching

Preference	Description
Cache instrument data locally	Sets whether to cache the instrument information downloaded when starting the Trade application. The setting is enabled by default to reduce bandwidth and improve performance, as most instrument definitions do not change frequently. Note: You can update an instrument definition manually, if needed, from the MD Trader or Spread Matrix context menus.

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