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Adding the BookTrader

The BookTrader feature allows you to view deep book data for a selected instrument, and create and transmit orders. You can add the BookTrader to any page in WebTrader using the Preferences window except Search .

You can create orders from the BookTrader. See Creating an Order from the BookTrader for more information.

To add the BookTrader to any page

1. From any page in WebTrader, click the Preferences button.

The Preferences window opens to the Content tab. In the figure below, the Market page is the currently selected tab and the Modules Enabled list shows that only the Market View module is enabled on that page.

2. In the Click the Add Modules section, click BookTrader. The BookTrader module is added to the Modules Enabled list.
   
   
3. You can add a symbol to BookTrader in the Preferences window or from the BookTrader module itself. Click BookTrader in the Modules Enabled list to highlight it, then click Add New Contract.
   
   To remove symbols from the module, click the minus sign on the instrument in the Manage Current Contracts list.

4. Click Save and Dismiss in the lower right corner of the window to save your changes and close the Preferences window.
5. To change the symbol in the BookTrader module once it is displayed on the page, click Edit.
6. To change the exchange, use the Select Exchange drop-down.
   

   

7. In the box that appears, select an instrument. For instrument types other than stock, define additional instrument parameters such as right, strike and expiry (if needed).
8. Apply additional settings in the BookTrader module:

• Click Re-center to keep the best bid/ask price or last traded price always visible in the center of the BookTrader screen.
• Change the default size by editing the number in the Default Size field. Note that this is also defined for each instrument type on the Trading Preferences tab in the Preferences window.
• Select a different exchange from the Select Exchange drop-down.