Hotkey for bracket order with sizing by capital?

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by Omer1235, Mar 15, 2021.

  1. Omer1235

    Omer1235

    Hey guys,

    I'm trying to create a hotkey to generate a bracket order (buy, stop, and take profit).
    In addition I want to buy according to certain capital and not number of shares.

    To do that, I changed the default buy sizing to 800USD instead of 100 shares. That way when I press the hotkey to buy, it will create a buy order of 800USD.

    However, the Stop Sell won't be able to trigger as well (as part of the bracket) because it can only do so in relation to number of shares (that's the error message I'm getting). So in this case, I'm assuming I cannot trigger a bracket order.

    If after creating a buy order of 800USD (without specifying number of shares) and transmitting it, and then I want to create a stop loss order - what should I put in the Sizing input box? "Available" ?

    I really hope I explained it well and it's not confusing. The platform seems great and I'm still trying to get around it.

    Thanks in advance