Simply view average price in IB: Has to be possible! Hello all, I am using the IB TWS software to buy/sell DAX options, and I am trying to find out one very simple piece of information . . . A very simple *example* illustrating what I have done: Ten days ago I bought ten Dec07 5000strike Puts for $100 Today, I bought ten Dec07 5000strike Puts for $80 I want to know what my average cost is of all the twenty Dec07 5000strike Puts I own. It should show me that the average cost was $90. So if I can sell all those 20 puts I own for $90 or more, I can make a profit. No? How/Where can I see this bit of info. I can seem to find every other type of info, but not something like this . . . am I completely blind and missing it? Thank you kindly for your time and any help you may be able to provide Cheers KJ
If you click on "Account" on the TWS you should be able to see your unrealized profit/loss in real time.
Hello and thankyou for the response I realize that i can see the P&L, but i was specifically more looking for the average cost. Sometimes i may have a position that may not have been traded twice as in the above example, but in fact have been traded many times at many different prices. Further more i am hedging and offsetting other positions which can make thing a bit more complicated/convoluted, especially if i do not use only IB as my broker and TWS as the software. I cannot go off P&L alone, in fact sometimes the P&L may be misleading to what i am hoping to achieve. That is why i was hoping to be able to easly see the avgerage cost of a position. Currently, if i buy/sell an instrument over a period of time at many different prices, i need to view the Trade History, and copy it to excel and work out the average cost. But unfotunetly that requires effort , but more importantly, it seems TWS only shows you info on a Daily basis. so if i happened to to be holding a contract that i bought two weeks ago, it will not show up in my "trades' execution window . . . so really, it is useless to me. As i said, i'm just hoping to find the info that shows me, if i have a position in something, and i have traded it multiple time (averaging up etc.) what my average cost is . . . . I hope that made sense Thankyou again, Cheers KJ