3.3.8 Pre-Trade Allocations
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You can view a short video on using the pre-tradeallocation plug-in by clicking hereor paste http://www.screencast.com/t/0ISwypG8kV  into yourbrowser
Allocation Order Ticket
The allocation order ticket lets you placemultiple trades across a set of accounts shown in the workingallocation split view.
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Item
Description
Mnemonic DropDown
This is used to selectthe product to trade.
Order Type
You can select the type of order, note that someorder types are not supported on all trade venues and will berejected if used.
Total QuantityOrdered
Is the total amount for the allocation that willbe bought or sold, you can change the quantity in here and it willbe applied to the ratios in the allocation viewer.
Get Last Price
Click to show the lastprice in the order price box.
Order Price
Price that limit orderswill be submitted at.
BUY
Buy theallocation
SELL
Sell theallocation
  
Available accounts list
The available accounts list presents a list ofall the accounts supported by the broker for the product mnemonicselected in the order ticket.
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The view shows:

  
Item
Description
Number
The Accountnumber/code.
LongName
The account long name,if provided by the trade venue.
FirmCode
The account's firm code
 
Add >>
Click this button to add the account to anallocation, the account will be posted in the working allocationsplit view before the selected row, or at the end.
 
  
Working Allocation split view
The working allocation split view shows  andlets you edit the individual account allocations that make up anallocation:
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Item
Description
Account Number
Account number/code forthis account allocation line.
Enable
Is this line enabledfor trade - setting this to False will prevent that line beingtraded.
Ratio
Ratio for each account line, these are usedin conjunction with the desired total quantity to get the amountbought/sold
 
Amount
The amount for each line, if you set the totalquantity in the allocation ticket this is set using the ratio,however you can manually edit the amount.
TranchSize
The tranch size used when placing orders, so ifthe total amount for a particular account was 100 and the tranchsize was 20 then 5 orders would be submitted on a round-robinbasis.
  
Allocation order summary
This shows each set of orders placed by  thesystem and summary information about the amount filled and workingfor the set of orders. You can see there is one line per buy/sellused in the Allocation order ticket.
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Field
Description
TimePlaced
Time the allocation wastraded
Alloc
The name of the allocation used, note that theallocation is copied at the time the orders are submitted topreserve the settings at the time of ordering.
Side
Side of the ordereither Buy or Sell
OrderSize
Total order size
WrkQty
Quantity working themarket
CumQty
Quantity filled
Symbol
Mnemonic traded
AvgPrice
Average price acrossthe orders traded
% Fill
Percentage of the totalorder filled
Cancel
Click this to cancelany working quantity across all the allocation orders
Edit
Edit the allocationworking orders(price) associated with this allocation order
Reverse
Click this to send a reverse allocation to theworking allocation split view, this lets you reverse out of anallocation,
 
 
 
 
  
Account summary for selected allocation order
This shows the account summary and break down forthe selected allocation  order summary
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Field Name
Description
AccountCode
Account code used inallocation
Enabled
Was the account enabledin this allocation order
Ratio
Ratio that wasused
Amount
Total amount used onorders
TranchSize
The tranch size used when placing orders, so ifthe total amount for a particular account was 100 and the tranchsize was 20 then 5 orders would be submitted on a round-robinbasis.
WrkQty
Quantity working themarket.
CumQty
Quantity filled.
  
Allocation drop down
This shows all the allocations that have beencreated or loaded, you select a particular allocation and itsdetails will appear in the other windows.