Recent content by kroon1ke

I've been trading VIX futures on IB for several years now and since Brexit account migration my margins on VIX futures spreads increased a lot. From their IB support chat I understood that portfolio margin for IBCE (Interactive Brokers Central Europe) clients is gone, but their new risk/margins...

No, its not possible to get a fill at those prices

Hi, I've been experiencing this annoying bug for quite some time now. Several months ago I've sent a ticket to IB support but didn't get any answers. I trade a lot of VIX futures and VIX future spreads, you can trade spreads directly on CFE and IB does offer those products. There is however...

I have no idea why, but lower memory allocation does actually increase CPU usage by TWS on my PC.

Try increasing memorly allocation for TWS. Go to Edit -> Global Configuration -> General and increase number in Memory Allocation. TWS became stable only after I increased it to 14000, but it probably depends on the way you use TWS so play with the number a bit.

It depends on the type of product you want to trade. As far as I understood every charting software has no problems sending orders from DOM to IB for outright futures, but pretty much none of them will send future combo/spread orders to IB. although those combos are listed/traded directly on...

Thanks for reply, but right now I am not planning to change IB for any other broker. I'll write to eSignal support and check if they are able to properly execute spread/combo orders for IB.

I am looking for a trading platform/charting software that will be able to chart, show DOM and trade exchange traded (native) futures spreads with Interactive Brokers. Some examples of spreads I am interested in: VIX Calendar Spreads traded directly at CFE Inter-commodity spreads traded at...

As it turned out this was the case. IB also uses a separate balance (IBUK Regulated) for positions in european CFDs, futures, etc.

I'm looking for a website/platform to backtest a very simple option strategy. The idea is to systematically write a naked call on a certain security. I.e. every month write a call with specific delta (or strike/price ratio) that matures in 40-50 days. Any good suggestions? Simple interface...

All my futures positions are closed atm. I have some open positions in securities, which leads to margin requirement in Securities Account. The problem is that part of my balance is stuck on "IB UK Regulated account" and I have no clue what it means and how to transfer money from there to my...