IB Suggestions & Improvements

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by Babak, Aug 26, 2005.

  1. My apologies if the following has already been suggested (or if the capability already exists), but I would like to see a one-cancels-the-other order type (basically a bracket order after the fact). Say I'm in a position, and I want to put in both a stop-loss order and a limit-close such that if either one executes then the other open order is cancelled.

    Thank you.


    Regards,
     
    #231     Sep 28, 2005
  2. DAV

    DAV ET Sponsor

    Book Trader Configure > Buttons > Add

    Create a Buy or Sell market order button.
     
    #232     Sep 28, 2005
  3. dagobaz

    dagobaz

    extremely helpful.

    thank you very much !
     
    #233     Sep 28, 2005
  4. Aaron

    Aaron

    Capability exists -- check out TWS's OCA Group functionality.

    Aaron Schindler
    Schindler Trading
     
    #234     Sep 28, 2005
  5. frugi

    frugi

    How about the option to include (futures) commission in the total P&L figure on the main page?

    Ideally this would be automatically calculated so that if you are, say, on unbundled futures prices, it knows how many trades you've made that month and subtracts the correct commission per trade.

    Or, simpler, a box where the user can input a certain fixed $ level for each instrument traded.

    As others have said, more comprehensive trade stats in the Account page would be handy too. Stats for day/week/month such as No. trades, No. w/l, av w/l, the usual stuff.


    Cheers.
     
    #235     Sep 28, 2005
  6. Hoi

    Hoi

    You can use ButtonTrader for this, it has the Touch-logic and additionally a timer to postpone the change in a Market-Order a bit (user defineable timer).
    There is an example of this in the tutorial-Video's:
    http://www.buttontrader.com/swf/ButtonTrader_Videos.html
     
    #236     Sep 29, 2005
  7. Babak

    Babak

    Please make changes to the column widths in 'Account' (TWS>view>account) sticky. Its frustrating having to constantly click and drag because the changes I made previous have not been kept and I'm seeing "..." for the columns that I want to see and huge size for "commodities 0.00" which I don't care about.
     
    #237     Sep 30, 2005
  8. tmb

    tmb

    I would like the current day's TICK and TRIN (IB symbols TICK-NYSE and TRIN-NYSE) to be saved on the server. As it is now, if I refresh a TWS chart containing them, or logoff of TWS and then log back on, none of TICK or TRIN data from earlier in the day is displayed. On the top of the chart is a "No historical market data available prior to ..." message. The same may be true of other market internals but I haven't checked.
     
    #238     Oct 3, 2005
  9. Babak

    Babak

    Allow a way to remove spikes (distortions in axis). When the cross hairs are activated, have info such as high/low/open/close/time. On the price axis, show current real time price (write it, highlighted or bold). Oh and have price axis on both sides (or toggle to one or the other).
     
    #239     Oct 6, 2005
  10. JackR

    JackR

    Book Trader

    Change Book Trader(BT) to have separate defaults for the high and low side bracket orders (currently set thru Configuration screen for all bracket orders). At this time the "bracket" can only be preset equidistant from the execution price. An ability to preset the high and low brackets independently would provide some highly desired functionality. Further giving each open BT window capability to set its brackets independent of any other BT window provide the ability to handle products with different "tick" values and volatility.
     
    #240     Oct 9, 2005