Yes thats how IB informed me but with the new margin rules, if a broken wing iron condor is created its only 50 margin as opposed to 75 that would...
If you ever used option trader with IB you will know you use the "Option spreads" ,combo or leg by leg selection to create an iron condor, but...
how do the new margin rules for iron condors as detailed in...
please add it asap. this feature is lacking for traders who want to make a big saving, esp for wide spreads. increments + / - from mid be nice....
IB's Option Trader should have the ability to set a limit order that is based on the mid of the bid and ask or %above / below bid ask , WHEN a...
nice, when you ran two monitors extra on your dell vostro 3700 laptop (=> 3 screens) did you require any additional hardware like matrox , or did...
an adequate set up for me, would be for my laptop to connect to 2 external monitors with the same resolution as my laptop 1920x1200. I saw a...
thanks for letting us know MTE, if one is annual other is daily why not just *360 , why 260? and why do u have to take the square root? IB is the...
kapw7, the screen to right is from www.optionseducation.org , theyre real good options site with great customer support. u trade options with IB...
it confounds me why the option's, bid, ask, greeks data in my IB software match with other reliable sources of data, eg www.optionseducation.org...
I'm over in asia just now, and time is currently 12hours ahead of US ET, so confusion can arise when looking at the time and sales, anyhow l set...
thanks for willingness to look into it IBsoft :) the CSmanager kindly explained to me that it is because of a conflict of time zones, so I have...
attachment again
April 10th 2012, Tuesday, 10:23:46 ,sell SPY bear put combo (sell 140 buy 138put) 140put 138put, details in attachment, as you can see from the...
I had set a conditional sell market order on an option spread, the condition was met, so it became a market sell order. I received 1.14 but the...
it is not good trading to have a OCA order for option combos / spreads without taking into account quantity. so if have a quantity of 13 bear...
yes, it seems to work now, but is there a way of executing 2 or more OCA orders all in one go from option trader?
I thought I was the only one who went from 6 figures to 3 because of zero money management, ie no OCA for option spreads. Tried Build 923 as...
Well, they shouldn't raise hopes by saying by end of year. I am one of those who had a portfolio margin feasible account but now down to 3...
Yes, Stan M of customer service looked at audit trail with me, and indeed he confirmed, the order was put in as a stop limit sell order. heres...
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