What do the colors mean on Time and sales?
Isabella Harris
Published Jan 20, 2026
Once referring to an actual tape of paper with time and sales data printed onto it, electronic ticker tapes today use green LEDs or font color to indicate a higher trading price and red to indicate a lower price (blue or white to indicate no change).
What is the white color in Time and sales?
Here’s what the colors mean on time and sales data: Green mean that orders are getting filled on the ask. Red means that trades are being filled on the bid. White orders are filled between the bid and the ask.
What does red mean on Time and sales?
The Time & Sales grid will display all trades that have occurred on a given security based on the filter criteria, regardless of trade condition and market session. Shares traded at or below the Bid price will be displayed in red. Shares traded at or above the Ask price will be displayed in green.
What does green mean on Time and sales?
More videos on YouTube The green prints means there are trades executing on the ask, the red means trades are executing at the bid and white prints show that trades went off in between the bid and ask.
How do you read Time and sales colors?
Generally, in time & sales platforms, orders that take place on the bid are colored in red, those that take place on the offer are colored in green, and those that trade in between the bid and the offer are printed in white.
What do the colors mean on level 2?
The changing colors on the Bid/Ask prices on Level 2 indicates Market Maker tick movements. If the market maker upticked from their last order/quote, it’s green.
How do you get real time stock?
Here are a few of the best free real-time stock charting platforms to check out.
- TradingView. TradingView provides real-time stock charts that are visually appealing and can be customized with hundreds of technical indicators.
- StockCharts.
- Google Finance.
How do you read Time and Sales colors?
Where do I change the color of the time and sales window?
Each row in the Time and Sales window displays information about a single trade for a contract. The row information is color-coded so you can easily identify the trade activity. These colors can be changed in the Color tab on the Properties menu.
What does the yellow bar on the time and sales window mean?
When set to collect trade data for a specified interval, the Time and Sales window displays a yellow bar next to the accumulated quantity in the Qty column. The default color is yellow but can be changed using the Time and Sales Properties window or Time and Sales tab in Global Properties.
What do the colors on a survey mean?
Pink is strictly used by land surveying companies to state where the temporary survey markings are. The color codes for locating utilities, conduit or rebar in concrete can present slightly different colors depending on the surface. Most often used are the colors red, yellow, blue and black.
How to recognize color codes in trading technologies?
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