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Market Watch

The Market Watch component is available in the XTrader module within your XCore Portal and can be used for internal as well as external purposes, notably when it comes to checking out prices and sharing price offerings with prospects.

Key Features

  • visibility of the price streams from specific Liquidity Pools, including depth of market in real-time.
  • real-time view of the spreads across all layers of the liquidity book.
  • ability to verify and test different markup settings.
  • ability to verify connectivity to new and existing Liquidity Providers.
  • ability to verify and check price streaming on newly added symbols from specific Liquidity Providers.
  • ability to show liquidity offerings to prospect clients.
  • ability to customize your liquidity offerings tailored to each prospect’s requirements.

Accessing Market Watch

The Market Watch can be accessed as seen below:

Market Watch Initialization

  1. You can select between different connector streams that are available to the XTrader connector to view different pricing streams.
  2. Linking option offers you the ability to link symbols shown in the Market Watch with another component under the Xtrader Module (Trading Panel, Pricing Chart)
  3. The Price Indicators which can be either enabled or disabled showing green and red arrows next to prices indicating whether the price has increased or decreased.
  4. The Hide Empty option offers the ability to hide all symbols that are not receiving quotes.
  5. Filter option to search for a specific symbol

The Market Watch component consists of the following columns

Columns Description
Symbol A particular trading pair (security).
Bid size Represents the quantity of a security that is wanted to be purchased at a specified bid price.
Bid price The price that is offered for the particular security.
Ask size Represents the quantity of a security that is offered to be sold at the specified ask price.
Ask price The price that is wanted for the particular security.
Spread It is the difference between the best bid and ask prices at a particular moment.