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Setting Order Placement Preferences

These settings allows to you choose whether to use DOMTrader or Order Ticket for order placement, which columns and buttons to display on the trading applications, and which order placement methods should be enabled. You can also choose the price scale behavior for DOMTrader and font size for Order Ticket.

DOMTrader or Order Ticket

 

Click the button for either DOMTrader or Order Ticket to choose which is displayed in CQG Trader.

DOMTrader or Order Ticket Columns

 

 

Select or unselect the check boxes to choose the columns that are included on DOMTrader or Order Ticket.

DOMTrader Additional Features/Order Ticket Split Market Tool

This image is from DOMTrader preferences. Order Ticket has only one additional feature: split market tool.

These features are on by default.

To remove the Split Market tool from the display, unselect the check box. Learn more about the Split Market tool

To remove the net change or cumulative volume from the top-right corner of the window, unselect the relevant check box.

Confirmations

If Confirm orders before submission is selected, then confirmation messages are displayed when any order is placed, modified, canceled, or activated. This setting is on by default. If this setting is on and disabled, your FCM does not allow you to skip confirmations.

You have the option of showing confirmations only when multiple orders are impacted by the action or only for bracket orders.

If Enable order comments is selected, an order comment field is added to the confirmation window. In order to add comments, confirmations must be enabled.

DOMTrader Price Scale

For a dynamic price scale, select the Dynamic Price Scale button. The current price stays centered on DOMTrader window.

Order Ticket Font Size

Select Small, Medium, or Large font size.

Function Buttons

Select the check boxes to choose the buttons to include on DOMTrader or Order Ticket.

DOMTrader:

Order Ticket:

DOMTrader Order Placement Methods

Select or unselect the check boxes to enable Fast-Click, keyboard trading, and sweep mode.


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