--- title: Trades description: "Trades column lets you determine price levels that are battled over and attract more market participants. Lets you manually or automatically clear the column when a large trade happens, also lets you set alerts and many more options. ## Data…" url: "https://tradingorderflow.com/docs/superdom-series/trades/" updated: "2023-07-12" category: SuperDOM Series --- # Trades Trades column lets you determine price levels that are battled over and attract more market participants. Lets you manually or automatically clear the column when a large trade happens, also lets you set alerts and many more options. ## Data Type ![trades data type](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trades-data-type.png) ### Trades Side **Sells** – Displays the trades that happen at the bid price or below. **Buys** – Displays the trades that happen at the ask price or above. **Buys And Sells** – Displays trades from both sides. ### Accumulation of Trades Timer Interval Sets the duration of accumulation of trades before they are cleared. ### Trading hours Sets the session for the trades to display. ### Reset at New Session Sets to clear the Trades column when a new session begins. ## Filter ![trades filter](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trades-filter.png) ### Filter Mode Sets the filter mode of the Trades column. **Equal** – Display trades that are equal to the Filter Value. Useful if you are tracking a particular trade size. **Does Not Equal** – Expanding on Equal Filter Mode. You can set a trade quantity that you do not want to see. **Less Than** – Filters the trades that are lower than the specified Filter Value. **Less Than or Equal** – Expands the previous Filter Mode allowing you to include the value specified in the Filter Value. **Greater Than** – Display the trades that are above the Filter Value. Useful to see only large trades. **Greater Than or Equal** – Expands the previous Filter Mode, allowing you to include the value set on the Filter Value option. Like the previous Filter Mode, this setting allows for an easy display of were large trades occur. ### Filter Value The value used to filter the column. ## High Volume Trade Alerts ![high trade volume alerts settings](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/high-volume-trades-alerts.png) ### Enable Alerts Sets the option to enable large trades alerts. The Alerts will be displayed in the Alerts Log window. ### Set High Volume to Alert Sets the minimum value to trigger an alert. ### Buys Alert Text Color Sets the color of the text for a large buy trade. ### Buys Alert Background Color Sets the color of the background for a large buy trade. ### Buys Sound Alert Sets the sound alert for a large buy trade alert. Can also be disabled by clicking in "x" on the right side of the property. Allows you to choose any sound alert present on your PC, not only on the NinjaTrader® sound folder. ### Sells Alert Text Color Sets the color of the text for a large sell trade. ### Sells Alert Background Color Sets the color of the background for a large sell trade. ### Sells Sound Alert Sets the sound alert for a large buy trade alert. Can also be disabled by clicking in "x" on the right side of the property. Allows you to choose any sound alert present on your PC, not only on the NinjaTrader® sound folder. ## Visual Parameters ![trades visual parameters](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trades-visual-parameters.png) ### Steady SuperDOM Enable Steady SuperDOM. ### Increase Font Size This allows you to increase the font size while displaying the same number of rows. This option as a range between 0 and 3. Zero will make no changes to the font size selected in the SuperDOM properties and effectively add more space around the cells. This option tries to give you better visibility of the text. ### Text Position **Right** – Text displays at the right end of the cell **Left** – Text displays at the left end of the cell. **Center** – Text displays at the center of the cell. ### Current Bid/Ask Sets the background color for the Bid/Ask spread. ### Trades at Bid Side Color Sets the background color for trades at the Bid. ### Text at Bid Side Color Sets the text color for trades at the Bid. ### Trades at Ask Side Color Sets the background color for trades at the Ask. ### Text at Ask Side Color Sets the text color for trades at the Ask. ### Color for Text Sets the color for the text. ### Background Color Sets the background color for the column. ### Cursor Highlighting Enable Sets the visibility of highlighting a cell on mouser hover. ### Cursor Highlight Color Sets the cursor highlight color. ### Clear Button Back Color Sets the color for the Clear Button background. ### Clear Button Icon Color Sets the color for the Clear Button icon. ### Ask Before Column clear Set to display a confirmation message before clearing the column. ### Last Price Rectangle Sets the visibility of the last price Rectangle. Will display a rectangle surrounding the last traded price. ### Last Price Rectangle Color Sets the color of the last price rectangle. ### Last Price Rectangle Line Thickness Sets the line thickness for the borders of the last price cell. ### Show Center Line Sets the visibility of the center line. The center line will be displayed at the center of the column. ### Center Line Color Sets the color for the center line. ### No Connection Message Back Color Sets the color for the message when there is no connection. ### Reloading Message Back Color Sets the color for the message when the connection is reset. ## Trade Imbalances ![trade imbalances](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trade-imbalances.png) ### Show Trade Imbalances Sets the option to display trade imbalances. ### Imbalance Factor Sets the imbalance factor. For example if the bid-ask price relation exceeds 1.5 times the volume we will color the text or outline of the bar depending if the higher value was at buy or at sells. This option allows you to visualize where there is a big difference between buys and sells. ### Filter Value Sets the filter value for the volume. You might not want to display the trade imbalance when volume is lower than a certain value. ### Imbalance Text at Buy Side Color Sets the color of the text if the imbalance is for the buy side. ### Imbalance Text at Sell Side Color Sets the color of the text if the imbalance is for the sell side. ## Clear Settings ![trades clearing options](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trades-clearing-options.png) ### Auto Clear on Large Trade Sets the option to clear the Trades column when a large trade occurs. ### Data Type Sets the side of the large trade. **Buys** – Clears the column when a large Buy occurs. **Sells** – Clears the column when a large Sell occurs. **Buys And Sells** – Clears the column when a large Buy or Sell occurs. ### Large Trade Size Sets the minimum volume size to clear the Trades column. ### Auto Clear on Timer Sets the option to clear the Trades column at regular seconds. This is synced with the clock time and not from the time you set the option. ### Auto Clear Timer Seconds Sets the number of seconds to the timer. ### Auto Clear on Range Sets the option to clear the Trades column based on the range. This is not synced with range bars is set when you enable the option. ### Auto Clear Range Ticks Sets the number of price range to clear. ## Hot Keys ![trades hot keys](https://tradingorderflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trades-hot-keys.png) ### Clear Column, Key Modifier Choose between Ctrl (Control Key Modifier), Alt (Alt Key Modifier) or Shift (Shift Key Modifier) to set the first key to clear based on Hot Keys. ### Clear Column, Key Choose between different keys on your keyboard. In conjunction with the Key Modifier will produce a Clear column Hot Key for that particular column. ## Info **Add-on Name** Displays the name of NinjaTrader add-on. **Version** Displays the version of the NinjaTrader Add-on. ## Setup ### Output debug info Sets debugging info to NinjaScript Output window. ### Output debug info to Log Sets debugging info to the log file located in Documents/Trading Orderflow/[…]. ### Refresh Time (ms) Sets the refresh time for the column in milliseconds. ### Label Sets the label title for the column. Useful when you have multiple columns with different settings on the SuperDOM.