IB Suggestions & Improvements

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

  1. Dear Def

    In the a/cs window there are figures for margin required-day time and overnight. These figures get upgraded live as well

    My question is can I see these margin requirement figures for my individual existing positions? This will help in decidind closing some positions if margin requirement is too high.

    Your comments much appreciated. The total figures must be calculated by summation of individual positions so getting these on indivudual positions may not be difficult. Thanks
     
    #601     Apr 13, 2006
  2. himself

    himself

    If I have a position, and then during the day, when the market is in midrange, I add a trailing sell stop 5 points under the then market, TWS shows the number 5 but there does not appear to be any numerical readout for what the trailing stop price is at any time thereafter as the market moves up. That would be helpful.
     
    #602     Apr 13, 2006
  3. Add the Column "Stop Price" to your trading page
     
    #603     Apr 13, 2006
  4. himself

    himself

    I have that, my columns include limit price, trailing price , and stop price.

    The initial offset number of points shows up in "trailing amount" but nowhere does the stop price show up.
     
    #604     Apr 13, 2006
  5. IB web trader works only with IE and not firefox
    IE sucks and so, no IB for me

    Next, IB traedr station works only in windows or mac. no linux or unix or solaris

    IB is stuck in the propretieary mode and doesn't work for me

    dont know when they will enable firefox
     
    #605     Apr 16, 2006
  6. #606     Apr 16, 2006
  7. problem seems to be behind a firewall it does not work

    only the browser based works in that case and it needs IE

    net/net, firefox, unix and firewall seems to be a bad combo for IB. unless someone can advise me otherwise

    OX works
    even TOS does not :(
     
    #607     Apr 16, 2006
  8. JackR

    JackR

    In the Trouble Ticket System add a Beta TWS Bug category.

    It might improve the speed of detecting beta problems. Right now I haven't got a clue on how to report beta problems except to report it as a TWS problem. I suspect that such a TWS problem ticket gets sent to a regular CSR rather than a supervisor in software development.

    Jack
     
    #608     Apr 17, 2006
  9. xiaohu

    xiaohu

    while you are checking the greeks for HSI options, please make sure the greeks are also available for HHI.HK options traded HKFE.

    thanks
     
    #609     Apr 17, 2006
  10. Greetings,

    Could anybody tell me why IB's platform doesn't show OI data for equity options? :confused:

    Thanks !
     
    #610     Apr 18, 2006