IB Suggestions & Improvements

Try ZeroLine Trader http://www.zerolinetrader.com/ It is a front end for IB that is pretty cheap and has a setting for "enforce discipline rules" where you can define max loss and prevent a stop loss from being moved away from the price. There is also a 30 day free trial.

Cheers,

TRADERguy

 

For those who had issues with our home page CPU usage, please look now. On my machine, it has improved 40%. Still busy, but not frenetic.

 

from 95% drops to 20%. much better now.

Thank you IBj!

 

fwiw I always have trouble with the IB Canada page. Not the homepage itself but trying to get other pages to load off some of the menus.


No troubles with IB USA page

 

if they could fix the closing price for bellies,that would be great. it shows some massive number when it closes.

a way to see what the margin is of a contract by a right click or put it in the contract description,if possible.

 

ehmm...it might just me but i have a hard time understandin' how much margin a contract requires when check margin; there are commas that don't really make sense [to me] and many zeros that don't add up...maybe I am missin' somethin' and some1 can explain that to me, still, I'd like to see orderly numbers that I can comprehend not a mess like it is now.

thx

 

I'm not sure what you're talking about, perhaps you can be more specific. See the attached, I whited out my equity with loan value but this is for an after hours ES june Future. Seems straight forward to me.

 

I might be checkin' in da wrong place but here it is confusin' to say da least:

 

and again...nq margins:

 

this is what i really want to see.

i love book trader, but it just doesn't have the features of bracket trader

i love the way with book trader, i can configure it to make a bracket on limit order entry. that's good

what is a pain with book trader is MOVING a limit order and a stop order once my long is filled.

for example, my common bracket with Dow is that i have a stop set 10 pts below my limit entry, and a limit sale (for first contract) at +7 points

what would be nice if it book trader had a hotkey/button option programmable so that once in a trade one could move your stop (tick by tick) and/or your targeted limit orders

bracket trader allows you to do this.

theonly way to do it in book trader that i can figure out is to manually change it in the TWS, which is slow and clunky.

a simply way to move your stops (which i sometimes move in btw, but never out) in and adjust your limits with a BUTTON or something woudl be awesome

seriously.

i love the rapid fire nature of book trader, but it just needs a little more flexibility.

tia