Have you started using the My Notes feature? Are you following our most recent Twitter activity? Do you keep items in your Watches? These are just a few of the ways that you can take advantage of the Sidebar in QuikStrike. Simply navigate to the right hand side of the page and click the title bar of the Sidebar to view the dropdown in the image below.
QuikStrike is all about giving our users fast access to the most valuable information. Our Sidebar provides complementary data to a number of different pages within the application. Let’s say you are using the Standard Pricing Sheet for the Soybeans OZCG5 contract. The pricing sheet provides you with all the pricing data for that particular expiration. But what if you want to see Future Prices or review Straddle Prices for another expiration’s at-the-money strike? All you need to do is click the Sidebar menu option button and select your desired content.
Not only can you view prices in your sidebar, but you can also see the last time the sidebar window was updated, as displayed in the image above (NOTE: QuikStrike uses “delayed” prices per the mandates of each exchange).
The Product Status option in the Sidebar menu allows you to view when the QuikStrike information was last updated (for settlements and the most recent volatility run). When looking at Future Prices, Straddle Prices or Watches in the Sidebar, you can click the arrow button on the right hand side to view the full detail page in QuikStrike (as shown in the image above).
Have you ever wanted to track a Trade Strategy you’ve built in the Trade or Calendar Builder? You can save it to your Watch List as shown in the image below. You can view your saved positions in the Manage QuikStrike → Watches page, or simply select the Watches option in your Sidebar. Here you can view the Future Price, Current Price and Initial Premium, as well as the Profit and Loss information and Greek values.
If you haven’t been taking advantage of all of the QuikStrike Sidebar has to offer, it’s time to start now! What is your favorite feature of the Sidebar? Would you like to see anything added to the Sidebar? Drop us a line at [email protected]. Thanks for reading our blog!