Updates to financial instrument prices are scrolled across the Ticker as they come in. Price movements are highlighted in Red or Blue.
Tickers can scroll in any one of four directions horizontally or vertically.
Multiple tickers can be run concurrently. Live prices can be taken directly from the Reuter Terminal's IDN DDE, from Excel, e.g. as real-time updates to the results of complex portfolio calculations, or, indeed any other DDE source of price information. The Light Blue Ticker has been specifically tailored to provide direct support for Reuter Terminal users. Prices and News Headlines displayed on the RT can be selected and added to the Ticker with a single click of a Toolbar button. The Ticker provides a simple user interface for the modification of existing pre-defined tickers.