Blotter (trading)
As Blotter (of English :. Blotting paper ) to trade is securities and commodities a temporary list of open positions , respectively. The term comes from the time before the introduction of computer-based trading, when traders noted the open trades on their desk pads. From there, the trades were transferred to a more permanent form of storage at the end of the trading day . In computer-based trading, this function has been retained by traders entering their trades in a spreadsheet- like form into the blotter during the day, from where they are transferred to Trading and Risk Management while the post-execution processes are running .
Individual evidence
- ^ R. Tee Williams: An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets , Volume 3. Academic Press, Amsterdam 2011, ISBN 978-0-12-384972-4 , pp. 273-275 .