well, actually, if you click on "order" you can set up a time order just click it and hit the time once and it won't execute for another hour make sure you are set up for mkt rather than limit It's amazing how much money you can lose just by adding to your big loser every hour
I've eliminated all the safety msgs but the one I really like is when you go to the upper right hand corner and click the little X button and it asks you "Are you sure you want to close?" no, I don't want to close and have to log on again I just wanted to go to another page thanks for asking
all is my own fault. I should double check before I send my order. did not lose anything(but the wrong sell make me lose lots of profits, sold at 3.224), this accident makes me double check everything, very bad, become very nervous about sending out order. all moring I did nothing, after i got out with almost nothing gained.
ah don't feel bad, we have all done stupid things once on a Sunday Night ib was really screwed up I tried to make everything right but I forgot to add the - Minus sign to my short positions Talk about an evening of confusion
sorry but i couldn't follow you. can you show what you are saying using screenshots. The "Timing" attribute when you click on an order in TWS currently just allows to make the order either DAY or GTC.
well, I thought you were just joking, trying to prevent yourself from over trading but if you want to set up a time order (to keep you from chomping at the bit) click the ul then go to the top and click "order" and it will create a ticket and go to start time like I said, make sure your prefigs are set up for mkt instead of limit, or it will mess you up (or change it manually.) you can set up time orders anyway you want they are especially good to get in or out MOC for instance, in forex it would be 16:59:xx in es it would be 16:14:xx
I was just curious if there is a simple way it can be done in TWS. Seems there is none. Anyways, thanks for help.
well, there's only 24 hours in a day so if you set them up one hour apart that maxes you out at 24 per day how many do you want to trade in a day? you do know you can go to trade log and when you've hit your limit you can stop Out here in Indiana where I live, if you gamble too much they make you sit on the sidewalk out in front of the riverboat for an hour.
Yea, I had it... but it was set higher, since I *do* occasionally trade up to 50-60 lots in that market. In this case, I actually did it to two different strikes before noticing which made it worse. To answer gmst's question... these weren't market orders, thank god. They were limit orders, and at the price I was looking for. But obviously getting rid of the extra quantity, I had to pay a pretty hefty premium.