time and sales colors

[vulis]

is it possible to change the backround of time and sales colors?

for example i want full red and full green backround when there are buys or sell on bid/ask

[Jerry Medved]

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We do not have customizable color sets for Level II. Best I can do is give you the XML file for defining the colors and you can customize it yourself. If you want it, email us (support...)

[Adventures In .NET]

Can you help me understand the conditions that Raw Data uses these styles? I've changed my scheme to this.

      <GridStyles>
          Normal{Font:Arial, 9pt;BackColor:2,22,49;ForeColor:Silver;Border:Flat,1,70,83,100,Both;}
          Alternate{BackColor:3,13,27;}
          Frozen{BackColor:3,13,27;}
          SubRow{Font:Arial, 9pt, style=Italic;BackColor:2,22,49;}
          EmptyArea{BackColor:2,22,49;Border:None,1,ControlDarkDark,Both;}
          NegativeBorder{Margins:1, 2, 1, 2;Border:Double,3,255,58,40,Both;}
          PositiveBorder{Margins:1, 2,  1, 2;Border:Double,3,100,100,255,Both;}
          Fixed{BackColor:20,20,20;ForeColor:White;TextAlign:CenterCenter;Border:Flat,1,70,83,100,Both;}
          Search{BackColor:Highlight;ForeColor:HighlightText;}
          GrandTotal{BackColor:2,22,49;ForeColor:White;}
          Subtotal0{Font:Arial, 10pt, style=Bold;BackColor:Black;ForeColor:White;}
          Subtotal1{Font:Arial,  8pt, style=italic;BackColor:2,22,49;ForeColor:White;}
          Subtotal2{BackColor:2,22,49;ForeColor:190,  190, 190;}
          SelectedRowHeader{BackColor:38,77,115;ForeColor:White;}
          HighlightFullRow{BackColor:38,77,115;ForeColor:White;}
          HighlightHeaderOnly{Margins:1, 2, 1, 2;Border:Double,2,38,77,115,Horizontal;}
          NegativeValue{ForeColor:255,0,0;}
          PositiveValue{ForeColor:255,255,87;}
          NegativeHighlightValue{ForeColor:243,105,108;}
          PositiveHighlightValue{ForeColor:146,213,87;}
          NegativeFill{BackColor:184,58,40;ForeColor:White;}
          PositiveFill{BackColor:146,213,87;ForeColor:Black;}
          LastPriceRangeText{ForeColor:Black;}
      </GridStyles>

And it looks like this

I see that sometimes the text is gray with or without blue outline. It can also be yellow with or without outline, red with or without outline.

I'm also not able to get Last to be solid - even with the setting in Appearance settings. I could use the XML styling to do it though.

 

[Jerry Medved]

cannot tell exactly what is up without 

1) seeing bid and ask columns

2) what the Highlight options are set to on the view tab

[Adventures In .NET]

[Adventures In .NET]

Here where the Last = 4.01 and Bid = 4.00 and Ask = 4.02, there are different text color and times where there is an outline and times when there isn't.

[Adventures In .NET]

Here's what I'm seeing today with those settings. Would you please explain the conditions that trigger a text color change and when there's a green(blue) vs red(yellow) outline in Last/Bid/Ask?

[Jerry Medved]

Bid/ask highlighting - just shows red outline if bid goes down, green if it goes up (same setting as on portfolio)

TIME and PRICE column - 
    TEXT COLOR is red if LAST <= BID, 
    GREEN if >= ASK. 
    Unchanged otherwise (gray in your case) 
    NOTE: you hav the green set as yellow it seems.  AND it looks at previous tick's bid/ask, not the current tick.

PRICE OUTLINES - that is just the LAST CHANGE. Same as bid/ask highlighting. NOTE: you may want to make it show more than 2 decimals. Otherwise sometimes you will see MT show a change even though the displayed values did not seem to change

[Adventures In .NET]

I think what threw me off is that it includes filtered-out sales (below block filter size) and that ends up highlighting unexpected values.

Here's with block filter enabled (lots of ask changes but no highlights).

and here's without 

 

Thoughts on only applying the colors and borders only to visible orders?

 

[Jerry Medved]

not something we will be doing anytime soon.