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The ticker tape object is a live object that displays trades or quotes as they arrive on the data feed.  The ticker tape object is associated with a particular quote page object in order to specify which instruments are to be displayed in the tape. The user may limit the trades reported to those that equal or exceed a specified tick volume. This feature is useful when watching for large block trades for stock instruments. You may open as many ticker tapes as you like. The ticker controls shown at the bottom of this window can be hidden using the toggle buttons at the right of the tape (vertical, horizontal arrows).

A ticker tape may report trades on a single instrument, a few, or even thousands. When opening a ticker tape for a large number of instruments, it is advisable to specify the tick volume limit or the tape may move too fast to be readable. Sizing controls are provided on the right end of the ticker. The horizontal size button expands the ticker tape to the full screen width. The vertical size button expands and contracts the window size to reveal the tick tapes controls that reside beneath the tape display area. The back ground color of the ticker tapes is user-controlled as are the colors used to indicate which instruments are up, down, or unchanged in price.

The ticker tape object is a live object that displays trades or quotes as they arrive on the data feed. The ticker tape object is associated with a particular quote page object. When a new ticker tape object is opened, the ticker tape window is expanded to reveal several controls from specifying the properties of the ticker tape. A pull down menu of quote pages is provided. Selecting a quote page specifies the instruments whose trades will appear in the tape.

The user may limit the trades reported to those that exceed a specified tick volume by filling in a value in the space provided. To see all trades regardless of size, enter 0 or clear the tick volume limit edit field. The current tick volume limit, if any, is displayed as part of the window title. Tick volume limit only applies to issues of security type "stock". Thus, if you have other security type instruments mixed in a quote page with some stocks, all trades on the non-stock instruments will appear in the ticker tape.

If the recap check box is checked, the ticker tape recapitulates the current quotes of all tracked instruments alphabetically. Recapitulated quotes show the price and the net change in price. Actual trades show the trade price and the tick volume of the trade.
The ticker tape quotes are displayed color coded when the colors check box is checked. The colors used are the default up color, down color, and unchanged color specified for Quote Page, General Preferences.

The background color of the ticker tape may be specified using Setup:Preferences:General Preferences. This preference setting applies to all open ticker tapes.

Two controls are provided in the upper right portion of the ticker tape, one to zoom the tape to full size horizontally, the other to show or hide the ticker tape controls. As many ticker tapes as you like may be active at the same time.