rice dairy platform guide 5.… · • single action order entry (licensed from trading...

RICE DAIRYPLATFORMUSER GUIDE

About RDP Page 2Order Management/Account Info Page 3Quotes, Charts & Data Page 6Custom Workspace 3

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• Consistent user interface with multiple methods of interaction, including icons, drop-down menus and keyboard shortcuts.

• Efficient, intuitive and consistent order entry: left click=buy, right click=sell. Unlike other products that display useless eye candy, the order entry function is simple and concise. It is truly a “single action” operation.

• “Workspace” metaphor with multiple tabbed workspaces divided into one or more internal frames. Frames can be pulled into external windows.

• Multiple monitor support.

• “Mobile Desktop” allows users to save a copy of their desktop and to log in from another location and retrieve the exact desktop that they saved. Work from home or the office using the same screen layouts and configuration.

• Infinitely configurable colors, layouts and font sizes.

• “Themes” functionality allows user to easily create a unified color scheme throughout all the screens of the application.

• Templates for multiple frame workspaces, trading workspaces, and chart-link workspaces.

• Context sensitive month selection. Type a contract, and the valid month/year pairs appear in a window. Contract selection system allows search by category, exchange, description and symbol. Simply click on the symbol to enter it.

• Contract details shows exchange, contract value, minimum tick size and value, open/close time and margin requirements.

The Rice Dairy mobile app for the Rice Dairy Platform is the newest way to keep the markets at your fingertips for all types of mobile devices. This “mobile desktop” allows users to log in from another device and be able to work as if you are at your desktop. By having this unique feature, you are able to monitor the markets while you are away from your desktop with the same ease.

Application Features

Mobile Dairy Trading

ABOUT RDP

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Order Ticket

• Streaming Last Tick

• Order Templates for fast recall of common orders

• Configure order types by contract and price position. Example: Buys above the market are stops, Buys at the market are market orders, buys below the market are limit orders.

• Customize limit or market order when clicking on last, bid or ask.

• “Fat Finger” settings for single click or double click to trigger an order.

• Order placement options to show the order ticket, preview the order, or enter orders directly.

• Options to show an order review screen, order number after placement, cancel confirmations, etc.

• Notification options for pop up, pop under, or none.

• Set default session for composite symbols.

Buy Sell

Order Entry/Management

Order Entry Properties

Order Management/Account Info

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Order and Positions Monitor

Orders (white rows):

• Group orders by working, canceled, rejected and replaced.

• Group and color code orders based on proximity to market.

• Filter orders by contract, cancels, rejects and replaces.

• Sort orders by any column.

• Sort orders by proximity to market.

• Select columns to display.

• Organize columns by drag and drop.

• Export orders to Excel.

• Import and place orders from Excel.

• Set colors, font size and display properties .

• Cancel, Cancel/Replace and Cancel/Replace to Market from right-click menu.

Positions (blue rows):

• Display positions individually or net amount long or short.

• Real-time calculation of futures, options and net profit/loss

• Group and color code positions based on profitability

• Filter positions by contract

• Sort positions by any column (position, contract, p/l, etc.)

• Sort positions by profitability

• Select columns to display

• Organize columns by drag and drop

• Set colors, font size and display properties

• Set Default Currency

• Offset and Reverse positions from the right-click menu

Orders & Positions Screen• Single screen shows all orders and positions

• Display positions individually or net amount long or short

• Real-time calculation of futures, options and net profit/loss

• Filter by fills, open positions, working orders, cancels/rejects and replaces

• Sort by any column


• Organize columns by drag and drop


• Set default currency

• Cancel, Cancel/Replace and Cancel/Replace to Market from right-click menu

• Offset and Reverse positions from the right-click menu


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Risk Management

Alarms

Account Information• Invalid order requests are stopped and the user is

notified before the order is ever submitted. Invalid orders are prevented from being routed to a firm’s reject printer.

• All prices are displayed in a consistent format, with the correct decimal and minimum tick. One-click trading means the user typically doesn’t type in the price, but can easily modify it.

• Options, as well as futures contracts display the currency value of the instrument, not just the last trade.

• Extensive feedback from users in live trading environments has resulted in numerous tweaks and modifications that, in aggregate, result in large reductions in errors. This includes color schemes, font sizing, dialog sequencing, etc.

• Audio and custom text message notification options

• Alarms on futures, options and indices

Real-time account calculations including:

• Long Option Value

• Short Option Value

• Net Option Value

• Start-of-day and Marked-to-market account balance

• Start-of-day and Marked-to Market open trade equity

• Start-of-day and Marked-to Market total equity

• Securities on Deposit

• Net Liquidation Value

• Excess/ funds/Purchasing Power

Recalculated in real-time with each new tick or fill:

• Initial and Maintenance Margin Requirements

• Unfilled Initial and Maintenance Margin Requirements


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Market Data Coverage

Charts

• All North American futures exchanges, including CME, CBOT, NYMEX/COMEX, NYBOT, KCBT, MGE, WCE.

• Delayed-only U.S. Equities including NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX.

• All other U.S. and international exchanges supported by Rolfe & Nolan and Trading Technologies.

• Integrated international futures and equities from a third-party.

• Create charts on futures, options and spreads (both ratio and arithmetic)

• 39 Technical Indicators with programmable parameters (more coming)

• 15 different drawing tools such as trendlines, channels and fibonacci retracement

• Text annotation

• Tick, intraday, daily weekly and monthly time resolutions

• Bar, Line, Area and Candlestick and Point & Figure chart types

• Pan & Zoom both the price and time scales

• Tabular Data with export to Excel

• Information Box with Time Interval, Session, Indicator and P&L

• Customizable cursors and informational tooltip

• Export to graphics file

• Set default colors and display properties

• Globally modify colors and properties for charts

• Print charts on paper

Order Entry Features:

• Plot trades on a chart, w/color coding for profit, loss & scratch trades

• Enter orders directly from charts with a click of the slide bar

• Customizable display of working orders on charts

• Drag and Drop to cancel/replace working orders

• Quick buttons to Flatten, Reverse, Cancel Buys, Sells and All Orders

Quotes, Charts & Data

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Custom Streaming Quote Monitor

Features:

• Export to Excel file

• Live Quote Link to Excel spreadsheet (DDE)

• Launch Charts or Option chains

• Contract Details

• Print out quote pages

• Price Alarms

• Synthetic and Arithmetic Spreads

• Enter orders by clicking on last, bid or ask.

• Enter spread orders by clicking on last

Customizable:

• Create multiple tabs

• Insert titles and blank rows



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Price Ladder DisplayFeatures:

• Prices organized in a static column

• Real-time display of position, average price and profit/loss

• Optional display of cumulative bid/ask columns

• Optional display of profit/loss on exit of existing position at each price in the ladder


• Single Action Order Entry (Licensed from Trading Technologies® under U.S. Patent Nos. 6,766,304 and 6,772,132, U.K. Patent Nos. GB 2,377,527 and GB 2,390,451 and European Patent No. EP 1 319 211) or “Lock and Load” dual action order entry

• Cancel/Replace by drag and drop.


Customizable:




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Market Depth Display

Features:

• Best bid and best offer float at the top of the display

• Configurable pause freezes the display when mousing over configurable regions of the display

• Real-time display of position, average price and profit/loss

• Optional display of cumulative bid/ask columns

• Optional display of profit/loss on exit of existing position at each price in the market depth display


• Single or Double click order entry

• Cancel/Replace by drag and drop.


Customizable:




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Time & Sales

Fixed Format Quote Pages

• Streaming real-time

• Vertical or horizontal display of output

• Color-coded price search

• Color-coded high and low

• Double click a price highlights all other trades at that price

• Timeframe adjusts automatically based on the opening time of the contract when it is entered.

• Launch Charts

• Print out Time & Sales

• Streaming or Snapshot modes

• Launch Charts, Option chains or market depth windows by right-clicking


• Print out quote pages

• Enter orders by clicking on the last trade


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Real-time News

Custom Option Chain Monitor

• Dow Jones, Reuters and QT news feeds


• Configurable categories

• Custom search terms and categories

• Custom news searches are saved and organized in a separate tab for each search so you don’t need to re-enter them when you log back in

• Print out news stories

Features:

• Displays futures contract as well as all strikes vertically, with both calls and puts arranged horizontally

• Display and real-time calculation of “Greeks”

• Options Calculator based on Black-Scholes formula allows custom calculation of theoretical value, implied volatility, etc.

• Full support for options charting

• Monetary value of calls, puts and straddles


• Print out options pages


Customizable:

• Configure futures and options columns

• Set columns fixed or scrollable



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Contract Lookup

Snapshot Quotes

Custom Scrolling Ticker

• Popup windows show valid month/year pairs anywhere a contract is entered, as it is entered

• Contract lookup screen organizes contracts alphabetically by description or symbol, by category (Currencies, Financial, Energy, etc), or by exchange

• Only valid month/year pairs are enabled for a particular contract

• Calendar “Strip” selection to input all months of an instrument in one easy step

Features:

• Refresh Button

• Launch Chart


• Enter spread orders by clicking on last

• Real-time snapshot quotes available by monthly subscription or for a per-quote fee for RANorder users

Customizable:

• Select columns to display and arrange with drag and drop

• Set colors font size and display properties

• Symbol, Last, Net Change and Net Change %, each at any font size

• Compact Data View option

• Customizable colors


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Trading Workspaces

Chart-Link Workspace

The Trading Workspace is a powerful and convenient combination of a streaming chart, market depth window, working order monitor filtered to the, positions monitor filtered to the contract, and news page. Combined with the tabbed Workspace, users can easily arrange their trading by contract, jumping from one instrument to another by clicking on a tab. Alternatively, the user can rename the tab to a different instrument, and all the windows will change to that instrument. The template of the Trading workspace is configurable, so users can customize it to suit their tastes.

The Chart-Link Workspace allows users to combine a Quote Monitor, Quote Board and/or Option Chain Monitor with any number of charts of varying resolutions. The charts can contain technical indicators. The user simply clicks on a quote in one of the Quote monitors, and each chart automatically changes to that instrument. This allows the trader to quickly and easily cycle through different instruments, applying the same technical indicators to each.

Custom Workspaces

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