Release note archive

Release v.4.8.0.

Better trading experience and bug fixing

The intraday platform has been upgraded to give you a better trading experience. Apart from upgrades to Nord Pool’s back-end systems you may notice the following improvements:

Bug fixed: Sometimes after a service break, users may have experienced closed contracts being displayed twice in the Market View panel. This has now been solved.

Bug fixed: In special cases where a partly filled order has the same price as another order, it may be displayed with wrong priority order in the Order Depth panel. The actual priority has always been correct in the back-end, however displayed incorrectly may cause confusion for user. This has now been corrected.

Bug fixed: One particular contract, that is the local Finnish PH-04 contract, has sometimes been closing with a delay of a few seconds after the actual gate closing time 03:00 CET. This has now been solved.

Bug fixed: Rounding of VWAP displayed in Market View panel has incorrectly rounded down when more than two decimals. This is now corrected, so that if the rounding number is followed by 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, the VWAP will round the number up.

Bug fixed: User occasionally gets unexpectedly disconnected from trading client. The root cause of this has now been solved. If you experience unexpected disconnections, we encourage you to notify Nord Pool’s Intraday team by e-mail at intraday@nordpoolgroup.com.

30 June 2020

Nord Pool’s platform has been upgraded with new features and API improvements:

We have extended the marking of self-trades feature to enable companies that have multiple legal entities registered to trade at Nord Pool to flag trades between those entities as self-trades.

A self-trade is defined as a trade where both legs of the trade belongs to the same company. These trades are displayed in the trade ticker with a * next to the price and in the intraday API for ticker data, self-trades are marked as "companyTrade": true.

The solution is optional and can be activated by submitting a request to Nord Pool

If you are interested in enabling this feature, or would like further information please contact us at support@nordpoolgroup.com.

API improvements

Change to Order Execution Report snapshots

When connecting and subscribing to the API call /orderExecutionReport, the user will receive a snapshot containing the latest order events.

What has changed:

The snapshot limit increase from 1,000 to 20,000 order events. A custom limit below 20,000 can be applied by the user.

Order events with the following Order Action values will no longer be included in the snapshot: FULL_EXECUTION, SYSTEM_EXPIRED, SYSTEM_DELETED, USER_DELETED

You can find details of the change in the updated API documentation https://developers.nordpoolgroup.com/docs/orderexecutionreport.

Automated order deactivation for API users when connection is lost

Nord Pool will also implement new functionality to automatically deactivate all orders belonging to an API user where there is a loss of connection to Nord Pool’s intraday platform. Upon connection loss, all orders will be deactivated within 10 seconds, to support API users to limit the risk of unwanted exposure in the market during disconnection.

The change will apply to all API users, and only to orders added and/or modified by API users. The change will not apply to users of the Intraday Web user interface.

This feature is optional - API users can activate the feature using /REST User Preferences.

You can find details of this change in the updated API documentation https://developers.nordpoolgroup.com/docs/creating-and-modifying-orders.

28 May 2020

Advanced parameters to configure UI performance

Users have the option to configure the update intervals. The option is applicable for any users who experience slow sending of orders due to high data traffic on the user interface. The update intervals will affect all market data and H2H capacity updates, but not the sending and modification of orders.

Users might experience different issues depending on what type of data they are displaying on their UI and what type of hardware they are using. Therefore, the optimal update interval will differ from user to user. As a benchmark, 300milliseconds (ms) will be seen by the human eye as instantaneous.

Recommendations

If you do not experience any slowness when sending orders, leave the setting as is.

If you experience slow sending of orders, start by configuring the UI update interval to 200 ms. Test the experience while trading to measure the impact. Then try to adjust the UI update interval to 300ms and so on until you have found your optimal interval setting.

Nord Pool’s stress tests have shown best performance with UI update interval between 200 and 400ms and Stomp update interval set to 0 ms. Your experience may differ from this.

We encourage members to try out different settings and find your own optimal update intervals.

Please note that users must restart the client for the parameter changes to take effect.

10 September 2019:

Intraday Web has been upgraded with new features:

Limit number of hours ahead visible in Market View panel. Open settings in the top right corner within a Market View panel and change the number in “Show hours ahead” to anything between 1 to 48.

Why should I limit hours shown in the Market Panel?

Displaying fewer hours means less data to process for your browser and therefore can improve performance of your Intraday Web trading client. In other words, we encourage everyone to limit the number of hours to a minimum of what you need to view.

Important notice regarding default hours

Please note that as a default, number of hours ahead is set to 24 hours.

29 January 2019:

Intraday Web has been upgraded with new features:

New local contract offering in CWE outside of XBID contract opening hours. See the updated overview of opening and closing times.
New 15-minute local contracts in Belgium and the Netherlands available for trading
Trade cross German TSO zones on local contracts up to 20 minutes before delivery
UK traders can benefit from trading All or None (AON) customizable block orders.

Did you know that you can trade on Intraday Web using keyboard shortcuts? See the keyboard shortcut guide here.

4 December 2018:

Intraday Web has been upgraded with new features:

Adjust column width inside market view
- Drag the column line in the top header to resize the width to you own preference. If you double click on the same line, the column width will auto-adjust to minimum width.

Added support for using zoom function in your browser, allowing you to optimise screen space
- All browsers (Chrome, Firefox and IE) supports zooming in and out, which will re-size all information within the browser window. Intraday Web is now configured so that the view and functionalities are supported even when zooming. Try it out and find your optimal view!
Deactivate orders directly from market view
- The option is added to the action menu that appears when you click on your bid or ask in the market view . In addition to edit or placing new order, you can now choose to deactivate or delete your best order. This will give you better control of your trading.
New keyboard shortcuts
- Navigate and enter new orders using your keyboard. See the full overview.

Double clicking empty Bid/Ask columns has been made consistent with double clicking on Bid/Ask columns with prices.
- Double click BID cell containing an active order opens an ASK/SELL order with price matching the best bid
- Double click BID cell containing no order opens an ASK/SELL order with empty price
- Double click ASK cell containing an active order opens a BID/BUY order with price matching the best ask
- Double click ASK cell containing no orders opens a BID/BUY order with empty price

4 September, 2018:

You can now view up to six markets on one screen by splitting the market panels - both vertically and horizontally. Simply click on the plus sign in the top right corner and choose ‘Below’ to add a new market panel below existing ones. This gives:
- Better utilisation of screen space
- More flexibility
- Ability to dedicate more panels for viewing hub-to-hub capacities

Drag and drop orders in order depth to change price and thus order priority
- Bids will change price to 0.1 EUR/MW higher than the next best bid below your order
  - Example: My bid price is 25 EUR/MW. When I drag it above another market order with price 26 EUR/MW, my new price automatically changes to 26.1 EUR/MW
- Asks will change price to 0.1 EUR/MW lower than the next best ask below your order
  - Example: My bid price is 25 EUR/MW. When I drag it above another market order with price 25 EUR/MW, my new price automatically changes to 24.9 EUR/MW
- In case an order is dragged between two existing orders with the same price (e.g. two bids at 20.4 EUR/MW), your order will change price to 20.5 EUR/MW

Extend the bottom bar all the way to the top of the screen. This allows you to have a dedicated screen for your orders, trades and the ticker.
Some members have reported difficulty seeing portfolio names in the order depth. This has been solved.
- To view portfolio information in the Order Depth panel, just extend the column width until the portfolio column appears

The reported issue with closed contracts disappearing after they are closed and only reappearing an hour later has been solved.

Watch our demo video to learn more about how you can take advantage of these new features.

12 June, 2018:

Intraday Web will be connected to XBID as well as Nord Pool’s local matcher.
New timelines for contract opening and capacity opening as previously announced on our web page.
Trade cancellation requests must be triggered by the trader directly from our trading client and will be managed automatically in the system. Trade cancellation request is sent using the red X next to the trade in My Trades. User will need to confirm cancellation in a pop-up confirmation window before the request is triggered. If the trade counterparty belongs to another exchange, the trade will get state Disputed until counterparty exchange has accepted cancellation.
Self-trading on same portfolio no longer prevented.
- Due to all orders sent to the XBID system being anonymised, the current functionality in the system to prevent self-trading within a portfolio will not be present at XBID launch. However, there will continue to be visual markers in the market information and order depth windows indicating a user’s own orders. Nord Pool is investigating other potential solutions for this.
The price tick size will change across all markets from 0.1 to 0.01 EUR/MW.
Minimum size of customized block will increase from 1 to 2 hours.
XBID order depth will not contain area information (flags) for public orders.
The XBID order depth visibility (per sell and buy side) is limited to maximum 50 orders, or until sum of orders exceeds 600MW, but never less than 31 orders.
- The maximum number of orders shown in the order depth for User Defined Blocks is the same, except it is divided with the number of hours of the block order (rounded down).
Trade ticker is limited to displaying trades where minimum one of the counterparties is a Nord Pool member. This applies to all NEMOs.
Trade Ticker will not show the aggressor of the trade as it does today.
Order and Trade ID for XBID contracts will have X instead of I as prefix.
Local contract icons will have a slightly lighter blue tone to be able to differentiate these from XBID contracts. Only applicable for Germany.
API changes - please visit the API developer hub for information

24 April, 2018:

New application menu in top left corner to enable simple manoeuvring between the Nord Pool applications your user has access to
Order Management window has been limited to orders belonging to the portfolio selected in Market View panel
Opening new Market View panels will not close columns in already active Market View panels
Sorting on items in historical orders and trades will no longer be restricted to one page at the time
Line separating days in Market View panel has been made stronger for better visualisation