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Text Colors

Colored text on the screen's black background is used to represent up and down movement of price and quantity, and order destination information.

Color

Description

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YELLOW indicates no change in size or price.

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GREEN indicates an upward movement in size or price.

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ORANGE (or red) indicates a downward movement in size or price.

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For options, the price displayed in PURPLE indicates that the best price is not executing automatically at one or more of the exchanges displayed.

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MAGENTA - For inter-market spread orders, indicates the implied price of the order.

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LIGHT BLUE indicates that this was the last price at which the contract traded.

MEDIUM BLUE indicates that the quote is not currently tradable.

 

The page tab text changes color from black to RED to indicate that the page displays an asset for which an order has been transmitted.