3. Order Manager To bring up the Order Manager window, go to menu bar Trade -> Order Manager or left click on the toolbar icon. This is the window where you can manage your open orders, view trade blotter, messages, execution and cancel history, etc. The Order Manager window has four tabs to lead you to four different panels – Order, Message, Execution and Cancel. In each panel, there is an optional Search bar on top of it. You can use the Search bar to search for orders, messages, and executions and canceled tickets by Account, Order ID and Symbol. Choosing the options from User Preferences can hide the Search bar. At the bottom of the windows, the status bar shows the current ticket counts and volume. Order The first tab is the Order Panel. There is a split bar in the middle. The upper portion of the window shows all the Open Orders under the control of the current logon user. The lower portion shows the last three messages occurring on the system (See Figure 3.1). By default, a Buy order will appear in nlime-greenn while a Sell order order will appear in ppastel-redp and a Short order in xyellowx. Each order has a unique order ID. When you need to investigate your order status with your service provider, you must use the username and order ID as references.	Figure 3.1
An order entered into the system will have an initial status as Pending. Once the exchange acknowledges the receiving of this order, the order status becomes Open. When an order has a partial fill, your outstanding quantity (Qty) will be adjusted; and the order status will be Partial Fill. When an order is fully executed, that entry will disappear from the Order Window. You can cancel an open order by double-clicking on it or by highlighting it and then right clicking on it to choose from the drop-down menu. You may also replace an order from here. Marketable Order When a order becomes marketable, the entire row of the order flashes in nbluen once per second to raise dealer or market maker's awareness (See Figure 3.1).
Message The second tab is the Message Panel (See Figure 3.2). A message of order entry or cancel instruction sent to the server will appear by default in nbluen. A Bought execution message will be nlime-greenn. A Sold or Sold Short execution message will be ppastel-redp. A Cancel confirmation message will be in oorangeo.	Figure 3.2
Execution and Cancel The third tab is the Execution Panel (Figure 3.3), where all the executions are shown. The fourth tab is the Cancel Panel (Figure 3.4), where all the cancellations are shown.
Figure 3.3	Figure 3.4
User Preferences Right click on the Order Manager window and then left click to choose “User Preferences” from the drop-down menu. You will see the User Preferences window for the Order window (Figure 3.5). In the Action Settings section, you can hide/show the Search Bar, apply Double-Click to cancel, bypass the Cancel Confirmation routine. At the bottom of the window, there is a Restore Defaults action buttons, which can be used to restore to default setting. You can also customize the display settings such as header color, background color, font color, grid line color, grid line style, font, marketability color, buy/sell/short/cancel color, etc. The Action Settings and Display Settings apply the changes to all four tabs in Order Manager window. You may customize display settings and save it as your own Display Scheme. First, customize your display settings. Then on the right of Display Scheme drop-down menu, click on Save As button to bring up a dialog which lets you enter the name for the new scheme. Enter a scheme name and click Save button on the dialog, and then your customized scheme is saved into the system. You can retrieve the customized scheme from Display Scheme drop-down menu at any time. When you finish setting your preferences, click Apply for your change to take effect, then click OK. Click Cancel to disregard the change.	Figure 3.5