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Unit 10: The Trader Workstation

security defaults in the selection screen or else the current position in the market watch Notes
defaults. The first line for the screen gives the Instrument type, symbol, expiry, contract
status, total traded quantity, life time high and life time low. The second line displays the
closing price, open price, high price, low price, last traded price and indicator for net
change from closing price. The third line displays the last traded quantity, last traded time
and the last traded date. The fourth line displays the closing open interest, the opening
open interest, day high open interest, day low open interest, current open interest, life
time high open interest, life time low open interest and net change from closing open
interest. The fifth line display very important information, namely the carrying cost in
percentage terms. Figure 10.7 shows the Market Inquiry screen of the NEAT F&O.

Figure 10.7: Security/contract/portfolio entry screen in NEAT F&O

3. Previous Trades (PT): The purpose of this window is to provide information to users for
their own trade.
4. Outstanding Orders (OO): The purpose of Outstanding Orders is to enable a Trading
Member to view his/her own outstanding buy or sell orders for a security. An outstanding
order will be an order that was entered by the user, but is not yet completely traded or
cancelled.
5. Activity Log (AL): The Activity Log shows the activities that have been performed on any
order of the Trading Member such as whether the order has been traded against fully or
partially, it has been modified or has been cancelled. It displays information only of those
orders in which some activity has taken place. It does not display orders, which have
entered the books but have not been matched (fully or partially) or modified or cancelled.
6. Order Status (OS): Order Status enables the user to look into the status of a specific order.
Current status of the order and other order details are displayed. In case the order is
traded, the trade details are also displayed.

7. Market Movement (MM): The Market Movement screen provides information to the user
regarding the movement of a security for the current day. It gives details of the movement

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