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Is there a best-practices school of thought re: what to do with options positions in a company that has announced a merger? Specifically, whether it's just best to close them out before the merger closes, taking a loss to avoid the headache of owning the 'zombie' class those options get...

You did broadly enumerate these risks, but my biggest concern would be IB's (or really any Brokers', but particularly IB's) volatile and capricious margin and liquidation calculations. These are somewhat new instruments in a nascent and extremely volatile & fragmented market; and every IB client...

Thanks, this also appears to be what i'm looking for -- real-time approx ETHER_USD price that doesn't require extra mkt data subscription.

Thank you -- added BAKKT Futures May21 (Continuous), and it seems to display what I want / let me chart it. Appreciate it. No luck on Ether yet tho. Doge...um...not holding breath.

I want to see at a glance (and possibly chart) the price of major cryptos (esp Bitcoin + Ether) in USD in TWS. Not necessarily trade them, just track them for now. E.g. as of this post, BTC = $49,754K USD, ETH = $2,326 USD...how can I display that price in TWS?? There are exchange-traded...

Yeah, they sell a whole bunch of these "flip-out" additional screens for laptops...though most of them are sold separately with some method to affix them to your laptop rather than coming as part of the machine. One of best purchases I ever made was this 17" USB 4K portable external display...

Yes, I have no doubt that it is, but as I've written ITT, I stupidly did not prioritize a 4K screen when it has turned out to be one of the more important features for my purposes. So I'm buying another (17" + 4K display) and don't want to end up with a $5K laptop with specs that are a massive...

I nearly always use HDMI or TB3 out-ports (with TB/USB-C to HDMI male-to-male cable) to drive my 4K@60hz displays. Are there cpu-performance arguments for using DP? I.e. from what I've read, DP can support higher refresh-rates, but does it also result in performance improvements for the...

Yes, as I wrote earlier ITT, the real source of the problem is that I'm using Excel for something far more resource-intense than it was designed for. I know that if I wanted to take the "next step" in my trading, it would involve ditching Excel in favor of a custom-built API solution, but that...

Since this has turned into a de facto rig recommendation thread, might as well post the options I'm considering. Yes, the non-negotiable pre-requisites are I want a 17" laptop w/ 4K display. The 2 models that seem like best fit: Lenovo ThinkPad P73 Workstation Laptop (Intel i7-9850H 6-Core...

Misc answers from Q's ITT: 1) I don't know my RAM usage when Excel has frozen/crashed on me; didn't think to check, and frankly I would suspect (as have some ITT) that it's not a RAM overload issue...sometimes the IB API connection is what gets corrupted somehow; other times Excel simply stops...

I'm replacing my old laptop because I made a really stupid decision to splurge on everything EXCEPT a 4K display, which it turns out is one of the most important considerations for me now that I'm traveling a lot. (At the time, I figured it would be mostly running 2 x 4K external monitors; but...

Is there an easy way to tell which applications can take advantage of multi-core processing? (For my purposes it's Excel -- either 2007 or 2010 -- and IB's TWS...is there a resource that I can reference to tell if an app can leverage multi-core?) You discuss the graphics card, leading me to...

Appreciate the replies thus far, but hoping someone's willing to delve into the technical ins-and-outs of spec Q's in my OP; not necessarily looking for specific rig rec's (moreover that Dell is a tower; I should make clear that I'm specifically in market for a laptop w/ 4K display.)

Buying a new dedicated trading rig, and trying to make sure I splurge for the "right", most worthwhile upgrades. I plan on using this as a dedicated trading computer: I run IB TWS software (+occasionally others), Excel with a streaming-data API, and sometimes misc charting software. FWIW my...

No, see the reply to the OptionsOptionsOptions guy above: that only displays ONE expiry date. I need all expiry dates and all Strikes at a single static URL.

In the 2% chance that this is not a troll, the problem is this: Go to the URL from my OP > https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/options/ Do you see how it ONLY displays the option chain for ONE expiry date (the nearest one...in this case: Jan 22, 2021). There is no option to display the ENTIRE...

Can't tell if this is troll.

I'm looking for a free site that has static URLs / single pages that contain the entire option chain for given underlyings without having to use an on-site Java or other type of filter. I want to easily copy/paste entire chains + basic data (maybe even automate it down the line), but the...

Are there any reports of a wider Internet outage beyond just IB today? My Gmail and other typically-reliable sites are all kinds of wonky... (Many of my IB server statuses starting to go green, btw...still not 100% but looks to be trending in right direction)