Set Trade Alerts in TWS

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by damoonrulz1, Oct 14, 2020.

  1. I am familiar with trade alerts in TWS (IE - alert me when AAPL price reaches below $100.00 and buy at the bid x # of Shares).

    My question, since stops do not trigger in the afterhours/premarket, can you use this feature as way around that? say I am long MSFT, setting price & trade alert (including outside RTH boxed checked) if price drops below $215, sell limit $214.90 ? Would this work in the platform (goal is to protect / have a stop in pre and post hours). This really for the liquid names, not some micro cap / penny stock.
     
  2. If you have doubts, I suggest trying it out on your demo account so that you know how it works.