Editing Bad Ticks

To edit a bad tick in a Time & Sales window, you must know the correct price to follow these steps:

1. Find the bad tick on a bar chart using the bar chart cursor.

Note the date and time in the cursor display window so you can quickly locate the incorrect price in a Time & Sales window. The smaller the time base on the chart, the easier it is to locate the time and date of the offending price.

2. Display a Time & Sales window.

3. Use the e key to scroll back to the time at which the bad tick occurred.

4. Highlight the line containing the incorrect price.

Press l and j to move the highlight with the keyboard.

Move the mouse pointer over the incorrect price.

5. Select the line containing the incorrect price.

Press f.

Click the left mouse key.

The tick correction window is displayed.

6. In the tick correction window, highlight the incorrect price.

Press l until the incorrect price is highlighted.

Move the mouse pointer over the incorrect price.

7. Press b.

An entry box is displayed containing the incorrect price.

8. Type the correct price (to correct a price quoted in fractions (i.e., 32s or 64s), type the whole number, a space, and the numerator of the fraction (i.e., 33 22 for thirty-three and twenty-two thirty seconds).

9. Press b.

The price change is registered in the tick correction window and is reflected in the Time & Sales window.

10. Exit the Tick Correction window.

Press `.

While the pointer is in the tick correction window, hold the right mouse key down and click the left mouse key.

The Tick Edit Menu is displayed.

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11. Select DELETE.