Recent content by Justanotherguy

Poljot, I know they are independent contracts but that doesn't change the fact they are related to one single strategy, the spread, and therefore it would make sense to use the former to be protected from the latter. Anyway, I assume you meant to confirm the TWS doesn't have this feature. Thanks...

I was asking my question as I don't understand why, if somebody exercises the leg I sold him, I can't use my long leg automatically to protect me. In this case, in fact, I would get the value of my spread without the need to sell to this hypothetical guy the shares I don't have and after that...

Hi. I have a question; let's say I bought with IB a Call option spread and, after a while, both the legs are ITM. Is it possible to add a conditional order and sell automatically the long leg if the short leg is exercised? I have searched for an answer on the internet and in this forum but...

got it. Thanks for explaining.

Hi. Sorry if it's a silly question; I searched for an answer but unsuccessfully. Shortly, I noticed there is a difference between the S&P 500 Index price in TradingView and ES continuous future price in IB, and that makes difficult to me to calculate the right price for orders, stop loss and...