Level II bond quotes, "min trade size" > "order size"

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by ScroogeMcDuck, Mar 31, 2020.

  1. What's going on here?
     
  2. ph1l

    ph1l

    Maybe they are all or none orders?
    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aon.asp
     
  3. You can enter any min trade size you want on IB's order entry form, and I guess you can also enter any display size you want. So they must have entered a smaller display size than the min trade size. Why would anyone ever want a min trade size as large as 135k?

    Relatedly, I had a 25k buy limit order at $7 for a junk bond and the last moved from $10 to $4 without hitting my order, so they must have had a min trade size above 25k? Why would anyone do that?