Quote Columns

Column Title

Description

%Change

The percentage change between the Last price and the Old Settlement price (previous session's Close).

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Inserts an empty column in the chart.

Ask

The latest (newest) ask price from the exchange floor - an indication or willingness to sell at a given price.

AskSize

The number of shares that are being offered for sale at the ask price.

Bid

Bid price from the exchange floor - a proposal to buy at this price.

Bid-Ask

This column is designed for use with Forex only. Displays both the Bid/Ask prices (with no decimal), with "Ask" being a 2 digit representation.

When one of the prices is unavailable, ** displays in its place. Also, if the difference between Bid and Ask is greater than 2 digits, ** will display in the Ask column.

The purpose of this column is to display Forex Bids and Asks in the same way as traders quote prices to each other.

BidSize

The number of shares that are being offered for purchase at the bid price.

Change

The amount of increase or decrease from the previous trading period's closing price.

Close

The first closing price in the closing price range, or in most cases, the period at the end of the trading session officially designated by the exchange, during which all transactions are considered made "at the close".

Close2

Second closing price in the closing price range for those markets that have a closing range.

CntrHigh

The High over the life of the Futures Contract

CntrLow

The Low over the life of the Futures Contract

Contributor

The bank supplier name for FOREX quotes and for Termed Supplier (LME) instruments.

Date

The date of the last transaction.

Delay

The number of minutes in which a symbol's data is delayed from the exchange.

Note: The delay also appears in the Symbol column in brackets. For example, SPY[10] means the symbol is delayed 10 minutes.

Delivery

Contract's month/year delivery date.

Delta

The neutral hedge ratio, or the expected change in the option premium given a small change in the price of the underlying instrument; i.e., measure of the option's sensitivity to changes in the underlying (option instruments only).

Description

Extended contract name: the long display name of the contract.

DTE

Days till Expiration: The total number of calendar days remaining in the life of a contract.

DTE TD

Days till Expiration - Trading Days Only: The total number of trading days remaining in the life of a contract. Weekends and holidays are not included in this field.

Exchange

Exchange this contract is listed on and traded at.

Exp

Date this contract is due to expire for these Symbol Types: Option on an index, Future, and Option on a future).

Options on futures generally expire on a specific date during the month preceding the futures contract delivery month. For example, an option on a June futures contract expires in May but is referred to as a June option because its exercise would result in a June futures contract position.

Gamma

Measures the expected change in delta, given a small change in the value of the underlying; measures the stability of the option's delta (option instruments only).

High

Highest price this contract traded at during the current trading session.

ImpVol

Implied Volatility: the volatility of a market as implied by a given option price and a given underlying price.

Last

Last price at which this contract traded.

Low

Lowest price at which this contract traded during the current trading session.

Market

The average of Bid and Ask ; If Bid is blank, Market = Ask ; If Ask is blank, Market = Bid ; If Bid & Ask are blank, Market = Recent

Midpoint

The average of high and low for a Platts contract.

MidpointChg

Platts - The change from midpoint to previous midpoint for a Platts contract.

Model

The model used to calculate option and dividend interest rate, and implied volatility price.

New Settlement

The value of today’s settlement, available at the end of the trading day and posted until all prices are cleared for the next day’s trading. Settlement prices are used to determine both margin calls and invoice prices for deliveries.

OldSet

*Renamed to Previous Settlement    Old Settlement price: the previous session's Close price.  

Open

First opening price in the range of prices for trades in the opening "time frame" of the first session.

Open2

Second opening price in the range of prices for trades in the opening "time frame" of the first session.

OpenInt

The sum of all long or short futures contracts in one delivery month or one market that have been entered into and not yet liquidated by an offsetting transaction or fulfilled by delivery. Also called open contracts or open commitments.

PlCategory

Platts - The category for a Platts contract.

PlCurrency

Platts - The currency used for a Platts contract.

PlFreq

Platts - The frequency of a Platts contract.

PlIndex

Platts - A value calculated by Platts based on assessments over a period of time for a Platts contract.

PlIndexChg

Platts - The change from index to oldindex for a Platts contract.

PlUnits

Platts - The unit for a Platts contract.

PlYIndex

Platts - Previous index for a Platts contract.

PrCntrb1

Previous Contributor 1

PrCntrb2

Previous Contributor 2

PrCntrb3

Previous Contributor 3

Previous Settlement

The Previous trading session's Settlement price.  

Prev1, Prev2, Prev3

Last three previous ticks.

PrevHigh

Previous trading day's high price.

PrevLow

Previous trading day's low price.

PrevOpen

Previous trading day's open price.

PrMidpoint

Previous trading day's midpoint.

PrvAsk1, PrvAsk2, PrvAsk3

Last three previous ask prices

PrvBid1, PrvBid2, PrvBid3

Last three previous bid prices

PrvTm1, PrvTm2, PrvTm3

Last three previous trade times. The time will either be Exchange time or local time, depending on the setup.

Range

The difference between the High and the Low prices.

Recent

The last price if available, unless it has not been traded today. In this case, it is the previous trading day's settlement price.

Resm1

For contracts with a split trading day, one end of the range of prices for trades in the opening "time frame" when trading resumed.

Resm2

For contracts with a split trading day, the other end of the range of prices for trades in the opening "time frame" when trading resumed.

Rho

Implied sensitivity of option price to domestic interest rate.

SettleChg

The difference between New Settlement and Previous Settlement.  SettleChg is cleared (blank) until the current days settlement value is available, similar to New Settlement.

Spec

Special: Displays the Strike price (if an option), or the Contributor (for Forex or LME).

Strike

Strike price: the price at which the owner of an option can buy (for call options) or sell (for put options) the underlying market.

Susp1

For contracts with a split trading day, one end of the range of prices for trades in the closing "time frame" of a session not the final session, before trading suspended.

Susp2

For contracts with a split trading day, the other end of the range of prices for trades in the closing "time frame" of a session not the final session, before trading suspended.

Symbol

The symbol ID.

Theta

Reflects the expected change in the option premium, given a small change in the option's term to expiration; i.e., measure of time value decay (option instruments only). Theta format is dependent on the Theta/Vega Display Format setting.

Time

Exchange time of the last trade, bid, or ask.

Type

A description of the contract type. Contract types are cashbond, cashprice, forex, future, index, optequity, optequitycalls, optequityputs, optindex, optindexcalls, optindexputs, optfut, optfutcalls, optfutputs, platts, termsupl, equity

Underlying

The underlying month for options contracts.

Vega

Measures the expected change in the option premium, given a 1% change in the implied volatility of an option; i.e., measures sensitivity to shifting volatility levels (option instruments only). Vega format is dependent on the Theta/Vega Display Format setting.

Volume

The total number of contracts traded during a specific period of time.