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deltahedge
Registered: Aug 2009
Posts: 84 |
04-16-12 06:10 PM
Hey ETers,
For those you who use IB in your option trading endeavors how do you see the individual risk graph of various spreads in a given underlying? I tried using the PM demo account and even called up the Help Desk and the guy said there was no way to filter or include/exclude legs and construct a new risk graph. Therefore you pretty much saw the risk graph of all positions in the underlying as opposed to selecting option legs and then graphing a risk profile.
Does anyone have a workaround or is this just a drawback of using IB and that perhaps I should just use third party software such as Optionvue for options analysis.
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babutime
Registered: Feb 2012
Posts: 451 |
04-16-12 06:57 PM
Quote from deltahedge:
Hey ETers,
For those you who use IB in your option trading endeavors how do you see the individual risk graph of various spreads in a given underlying? I tried using the PM demo account and even called up the Help Desk and the guy said there was no way to filter or include/exclude legs and construct a new risk graph. Therefore you pretty much saw the risk graph of all positions in the underlying as opposed to selecting option legs and then graphing a risk profile.
Does anyone have a workaround or is this just a drawback of using IB and that perhaps I should just use third party software such as Optionvue for options analysis.
Thats the one thing I hate about IB. It sucks in its analytics.. but given the execution and cheap commission, I dont complain much.
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TskTsk
Registered: Dec 2011
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04-16-12 07:27 PM
Yes IB sucks for that stuff. Luckily IB allows you to feed their data into your own custom progarms or Excel sheet, so if you got some knowledge of programming or Excel you can analyze in there.
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spindr0
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 4166 |
04-17-12 01:08 AM
Some trade with IB and use another broker, popular with locals for their analytics  . Otherwise, you have to utilize something outside of IB for good risk graphs.
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silver217
Registered: Dec 2008
Posts: 65 |
04-17-12 06:23 AM
You can right click on an option, then do a "open new what-if",
you have to fill in the position. then add another option to
that same "what-if" and fill in its position too.
There you have it.
The graph is not so good but zoomable.
TOS or OptionsOracle do a better job.
You can have all three on your screens.
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syswizard
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 3605 |
04-19-12 11:33 AM
Quote from silver217:
You can right click on an option, then do a "open new what-if",
you have to fill in the position. then add another option to
that same "what-if" and fill in its position too.
There you have it.
The graph is not so good but zoomable.
TOS or OptionsOracle do a better job.
You can have all three on your screens.
One solution: fund a new TOS account; D/L the great software; pull your money out, leave $500 in the account.
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