The Time & Sales Properties in FinStudio allows for comprehensive customization of the module's settings to cater to the specific needs and preferences of traders. This flexibility ensures that traders can optimize their view of market transactions, enhancing both usability and interpretability of the data.

Overview of Time & Sales Properties

Theme:

• Customization is possible at the module level, allowing traders to tailor the visual theme specifically for the Time & Sales module. This could involve adjusting colors, fonts, and layout to improve clarity and alignment with personal preferences or workspace aesthetics.

Table:

• Formatting Settings: Adaptable formatting options help manage how financial data, particularly from instruments like Bitcoin, is displayed. This includes adjustments for instruments quoted with extensive decimal places or very high values.
• Cut Trailing Zeroes: This feature is useful for cleaning up price displays by removing unnecessary zeroes, simplifying the reading of prices like $63,000.23000000000 to $63,000.23.
• Digit Limitation Before Decimal: To prevent overflow and enhance readability, the number of digits before the decimal can be reduced. For example, transforming $1,335,232.542 into ..232.542 when space or clarity is an issue.

Panels:

• Customization options for various panels in the Time & Sales module, such as the Strength and Speed panels, allow users to adjust how these elements appear and function, aligning with their trading strategies or visual preferences.

Appearance:

• This tab provides settings to customize the appearance of the entire Time & Sales module, including:
  • Panel Appearance: Adjusts the overall look of the Time & Sales panel.
  • Strength Bar Appearance: Tailors the visual presentation of the strength bar, which indicates the balance between buying and selling forces.
  • Speed Bar Appearance: Modifies how the speed bar, which shows the rate of trade executions, is displayed.
  • Table Appearance: Changes the visual style of the table where trades are listed, making data easier to scan and analyze.

Data:

• Considering the high frequency and volume of data in the Time & Sales module, performance settings are critical: 
  • Updating: Choose between real-time updates or a fixed interval, balancing between immediacy and system performance.
  • Time & Sales History Settings: Limit the history size by row count or time interval to manage data load and improve application performance.
  • Reconnect: Option to automatically reconnect the last active instruments upon application restart, ensuring continuity in data monitoring.

Aggregation:

• Aggregation settings help condense transaction data into more manageable chunks:
  • Aggregation by Time
  • Group by Last Price
  • Group by Time & Last Price
  • Group by Time & Last Price & Bid & Ask
  • This functionality is crucial for reducing the granularity of data to focus on trends or significant transactions.

If we choose to aggregate f.e. by Time, it will aggregate all rows that have the same timestamp for the time unit interval we choose. If we choose f.e. millisecond and there are f.e. 10 prints (rows) that came in at the same millisecond it will print 1 row instead of 10 thus aggregating the prints. 

Filtering:

• Filters enhance the focus on transactions of particular interest by setting thresholds for the transaction size:
  • Below Quantity
  • Between Quantity
  • Above Quantity
  • Ideal for isolating large trades or specific market activities.

Benefits of Customizing Time & Sales Properties

• Enhanced Readability: Adjustments to themes and table formats make it easier for traders to interpret market data quickly and accurately.
• Improved Performance: Data handling options ensure that the Time & Sales module runs smoothly without overwhelming system resources, crucial for maintaining high-performance trading operations.
• Tailored Data Analysis: Aggregation and filtering capabilities allow traders to focus on the most relevant market data, aligning with their specific trading strategies and needs.