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Options Desk – General Layout

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  • Main Content Window  || Panel 1: The Option Chain

    • The general layout of the Platform comrises of the following segments:

    1. Main Top Bar
    2. Bottom Bar
    3. Left Side Bar
    4. Right Side Bar
    5. Main Content Window

    Top Bar #

    The Top Bar comprises of important controls as below

    1. Symbol/Instrument Lookup (Underlying)
    2. Option Symbol Dropdowns
    3. General Settings
    4. Price Chart Layers
    5. Options Chain Mode Selector
    6. To Select number of Strikes to be displayed in Options Chain Dropdown

    Bottom Bar #

    The contents of the Bottom Bar are fixed in nature and provides quick help to get the strategy details, check ledger, Live PnL, etc. The main controls on the Bottom Bar includes:

    1. Toggle tabs
    2. Fullscreen Mode
    3. Theme Chooser (Dark/Light…)
    4. Save Settings Control
    5. Strategy Builder
    6. Trade Ledger
    7. Screener
    8. Discord Support Control
    9. Help and Shortcut keys info
    10. Bug Reporter
    11. Github Bug Reporter
    Options Desk Bottom Bar

    Left/Right Side Bar: #

    The contents in the Left, Right Sidebar and Main Contents sections are completely customizable and can house any component of your choice.

    Every component within these segments are

    1. Draggable
    2. Resizable
    3. Popup-able (Multi Window Support)

    An example is seen below

    The Left and Right Bars house the following components by default and is configurable

    Left Bar

    Right Bar

    Main Content Window #
    • Options Chain
    • Price Chart
    • Payoff Chart
    • Volatility Surface
    • Strategy Watch
    • Options Flow
    • Strategy Chart

    Main Content Window  || Panel 1: The Option Chain #

    The main content window houses many tabs, let’s discuss one of the most important panel i.e. the option chain. The option chain window displays all expiry series of a symbol in rows, upon clicking on the green arrow symbol ➤ of any particular series the entire option chain of various strikes of that series will fall open.

    We have two important controls of the option chain on the TOP bar,

    1. Three different View of option chain, viz.
    2. Standard view
    3. Heatflow view
    4. Straddle view

    Selection to display number of strikes of each series, ranging from 4 strikes to 40 strikes

    options

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