NASDAQ BkViewer 2.0 User Guide NASDAQ BkViewer 2.0 ffers a real-time view f the rder depth using the NASDAQ Ttalview prduct fr NASDAQ and ther exchange-listed securities including: The tp buy and sell rders fr all issues Security-level rder statistics, price charts and trade data displays BkViewer prvides a real-time, autmatically updating view f rder data. BkViewer is currently available n the NASDAQ Wrkstatin and thrugh the DataStre website. In rder t view BkViewer, yur cmputer must have Adbe Flash Player versin 10 r higher installed. BkViewer windw displays data fr rders entered fr a given security. Table f Cntents BkViewer Cmpnents.....2 BkViewer Frequently Asked Questins (FAQs)......4 BkViewer Trubleshting.....5 1
I. BkViewer Cmpnents 1. Help Links t this help dcument. 2. Stck Symbl Identifies the stck being displayed. Please nte that BkViewer is designed t display data fr ne security at a time. 3. Get Stck Click this buttn t refresh the screen with the infrmatin fr the stck symbl abve. 4. Last Match Last Match (Price) Reflects the executin price frm the mst recently matched rders n fr the particular security n the NASDAQ stck market. Please nte that trades matched n ther venues are nt included in the calculatin. The display will shw N/A if there are n matches fr the current trading day. Last Match (Time) Reflects the time stamp in the Last Match Price. 5. Tday's Activity Tday s Activity (Orders) Reflects the cumulative number f displayable rders fr 2
the security during the current trading day. Any rder that was displayable at any pint in time will be added t this number and it will rarely reflect the ttal number f rders utstanding at the current time. This number des nt include nn-display rders (such as immediate-r-cancel r n-pen/n-clse rders). Tday's Activity (Vlume) Reflects the ttal number f shares matched during the current day. This vlume cunts each change f beneficial wnership nce. Fr example, if participant "A" sells 100 shares t participant "B", the BkViewer vlume will increase by 100 shares. 6. Buy Orders and Sell Orders BkViewer autmatically displays up t the first 15 individual pen visible buy and sell rders, that are available fr instant matching. Buy rders are n the left, and sell rders are n the right. Orders are presrted accrding t executin pririty (price and time) s rders higher n the list will be executed befre rders lwer n the list. Hidden rders are nt displayed. The backgrund clrs help t visually grup equally priced rders at the first fur prices. 7. Shares Reflects the number f shares per rder, available fr matching. The displayed amunt may be less than the riginal number f shares entered if the rder was partially executed r partially canceled. 8. Price (Buy/Ask) Reflects the limit price fr each rder. 9. Aggregate By Price: Select this bx t view all shares aggregated at each price level. MPID: Select this bx t view all shares n the bk aggregated at an MPID and price level. 10. Filter Filter the bk by MPID, Vlume and the Price fr either the Buy Side r Sell Side. Select G t apply the filter; Select Clear t clear the filter. 11. Exprt Exprt the rder bk t Excel. 12. Cnnectin Status Shws the state f BkViewer's cnnectin. Pssible values include: Cnnecting The applet is trying t initiate a new cnnectin t the BkViewer server ver the Internet. This ccurs each time yu request a new stck. The applet may take a secnd t cnnect, depending n the speed f the Internet cnnectin. Cnnected The applet has successfully cnnected t the server and is awaiting the arrival f the first packet f data. Cnnectin Lst The applet's cnnectin t the server was unexpectedly terminated. Check yur Internet cnnectin, and request the stck again. N stck fund The requested stck was nt fund. Yu may have requested an invalid stck symbl, r there may nt have been any rders entered fr that stck. If unsure abut the stck symbl check it and try again. As f A time stamp that indicates the timeliness f the displayed data. This timestamp updates each time the displayed data changes r abut nce every 15 secnds if the displayed data is nt changing. The time stamp is expressed in 24-hur 3
frmat based n U.S. Eastern Time. 13. Shw Mre By default, the first 15 rws n the Buy and Sell Side shw. Selected Shw Mre displays an ADDITIONAL 15 rws in the rder bk fr a ttal f 30 rws. The maximum levels f depth viewable is 30 rws. II. BkViewer Frequently Asked Questins (FAQs) What is BkViewer? Pwered by NASDAQ TtalView, BkViewer is the standard-setting data prduct fr the serius trader, allwing users t view all f the buy and sell rders in NASDAQ fr securities listed n NASDAQ, NYSE and the NYSE Amex exchanges. BkViewer is accessible with a subscriptin t ne the fllwing NASDAQ OMX prducts: NASDAQ OMX Wrkstatin Net Order Imbalance Indicatr (NOII) website Des BkViewer prvide real-time data? Yes, BkViewer prvides a real-time representatin f NASDAQ s limit rder bk. The time f the last update is shwn in the lwer left crner. What d the clrs in BkViewer mean? The clrs help t visually grup rders at the same price n each side f the market. T what granularity is size reflected n BkViewer? BkViewer shws display size fr each rder in actual shares (nt rund lts). What d the numbers (e.g., 259 mre) at the bttm f the buy and sell clumns mean? Due t display limitatins, by default BkViewer nly shws the tp 15 buy rders and the tp 15 sell rders fr each stck. The number listed belw each clumn indicates the number f additinal rders currently awaiting executin fr that stck representing the rders utside f the tp 30 displayed in the view. Why am I am experiencing prblems with the BkViewer? There are sme cmmn reasns why individuals might have prblems running BkViewer. Please refer t the BkViewer Trubleshting sectin belw. III. BkViewer Trubleshting Belw are cmmn reasns why yu might be experiencing prblems running BkViewer: Yu are trying t send mre than fur requests in a 15-secnd perid. Micrsft Internet Explrer limits an applet t a maximum f fur simultaneus cnnectins. If yu try t query mre than fur stcks in a 15-secnd perid, Internet Explrer will nt let the newest cnnectin g thrugh until the ldest cnnectin has expired. While the applet is waiting fr the cnnectin, yu will see the message "Cnnecting" in the bttm left crner f the windw. Yu are using Micrsft Internet Explrer. BkViewer was wrking, but nw yu just get a blank screen. 4
If yu have nt previusly experienced any prblems running BkViewer, it is pssible that the Micrsft Virtual Machine was crrupted via installatins f ther sftware n yur system, r yu may nt have the latest versin f Virtual Machine. In this case, yu can dwnlad and re-install the Micrsft Virtual PC fr free frm the Micrsft site. Other system requirements fr BkViewer. Ensure yu have the fllwing: 1. Latest versin f Flash Player (Currently, Versin 10+). 2. A Bradband cnnectin (BkViewer des nt wrk with dial-up). 3. Disabled Firewalls. 4. Enabled Accept Ckies frm Third-party : a. Open Internet Explrer b. Click Tls menu and select Optins c. Select Privacy tab d. Click Advanced buttn T Launch BkViewer: a. Lg in with username and passwrd at www.data.nasdaqmx.cm b. Click n My Accunt c. Select the Launch buttn under BkViewer d. Always launch BkViewer frm My Accunt. The applicatin will pen in a new windw. It is best t clse the DataStre brwser and run each applicatin individually after launching. Nte: Sme users experience a lst cnnectin when lgging n t BkViewer. This culd be due t prblems with the cmputer s virus prtectin sftware r firewall where it des nt allw t receive streaming data frm NASDAQ OMX. Yu went thrugh all the checks, and BkViewer still desn't wrk. Please send yur questins with a cmplete descriptin f the prblem t devsupprt@nasdaqmx.cm. Be sure t include the perating system, brwser name and versin. 5