To place a manual bid in the Desktop interface, enter the quantity desired in the left hand numerical entry box, and the desired unit price in the right hand numerical entry box. Pay careful attention to the units displayed.
After you enter both numerical values, click Bid. Your bid is submitted to the Resource agent. You may observe the results of your bid in the Auction Table or the Auction Graph window. The initial displayed value in the Manual strategy window is the last bid placed by the Automatic strategy. You may, if you wish, view both the automatic and manual strategy screens simultaneously and quickly activate the manual strategy if you wish to place a bid. If you return to the Automatic strategy, the agent will return to bidding along the original valuation curve according to its standard bidding strategy.