10. Level I

To bring up the Level I window, go to the menu bar Quote -> Level I or click on the toolbar icon.

General

To get steaming level I quote of a symbol, just simply type in your stock symbol into a cell in the Sym column the first column. Once you type in a symbol, it will be saved to your stock list. Your stock list will be retrieved automatically every time your login. To delete a stock from your stock list, just delete the symbol from the Sym cell and hit enter. (Figure 10.1)

For different type of securities, OpenEx use different prefix to identified their symbols.

Stock – no prefix, such as MSFT, GE, etc.

Options – “+” prefix. For example, to quote a particular MSFT option in the Quote window, use “+MSQAT”. The prefix is not necessary in the Options Order Entry form.

Futures – “/” prefix. For example, to quote a particular index future in the Quote window, use “/ESZ2”. The prefix is not necessary in the Futures Order Entry form.

Currency – “#” prefix. For example, to quote a particular foreign currency in the Quote window, use “#JPY” or “#EUR”. Since currency shares the same Order Entry form as stock, you need to put in the “#” prefix in the symbol field when placing a forex order. To Quote a Currency Pair, use the format “#XXX/YYY”. For example, #EUR/USD or #USD/JPY. See chapter 15.1 Forex Quote for more information.

Figure 10.1

Right click on the L1 window, you will see a drop-down menu (see Figure 10.2). Use these options in the drop-down menu to customize your Level I.

Figure 10.2

Show Major Indices

By default, you get streaming updates of the three major indices DOW, NASDAQ and S&P 500 at the bottom. You can choose to have this feature turned off in the right click drop-down menu.

Add/Remove Columns

You can use this option to add or remove columns in your Level I display. You can also use it to change the order of the columns displayed. Please read section 2.4 General Functionality for its detailed instruction.

Level II View and Option View

Right click on a row and left click to choose Level II View or Option View from the drop-down menu (for example, MSFT as in Figure 10.2). This action will bring up the Level II window or Option Quote Chain of the selected symbol.

Import/Export Symbol List

If you have a list of symbol, you do not have to type each symbol in. Simply use the Import Symbol List function from the right click drop-down menu to import the symbol list from a text file. Vice versa, you can export the symbols in your Level I window to a text file by using the Export Symbol List function.

Clear Symbol

Use this function in the right-click drop-down menu to clear all symbols in the Level I display at once.

User Preferences

Right click on the Level I window and then left click to choose “User Preferences” from the drop-down menu. You will see the User Preference window for Level I (Figure 10.3). You may change the General Preference and Display Preference here. You can click on the blue icon button to restore to default value. When you finish setting your preferences, click Apply for your change to take effect, then click OK. Click Cancel to disregard the change.

Figure 10.3