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Thanks, how much time does it take for the market to balance after the open?

Thanks, is setting market GTC will give me the opening price? or at least very close to it?

in TWS I can't even choose OPG as time in force (for nothing!)[both Mosaic and Classic] in the WebTrader I can choose OPG but when I try to buy MKT on an option chain of AAPL and set time in force as OPG I get this error: "OPG time in force is not supported for this order." any idea why...

Is it possible in IB?

What do you prefer and why?

Thanks you were very quick :)

Normally you can't sell options if you don't use a margin account. But is it possible to sell a covered call? since there is no margin in it when the stocks sit right there.

As this picture shows I get no data about SPY option chain open price Any idea why? [using IB mosaic & 20 minutes after market open.. still no open price shown]

I read all the articles about day trading, 99% of them said it is one of the most dangerous things in the world. I just can't understand why, why day trading is dangerous? as far as I see it, it is much much safer to day trade than to hold a stock over night(I wouldn't be able to sleep) If you...

thanks for the help now I can at least do it faster thanks to your method still wonder if someone knows if I can do it automatically without actually being on the computer at market open time

Thanks for the quick reply, you mean I can set the stop price as bid + 0.5? I didn't see an option to use variables as a price is it in classic or mosaic?

Hi friends, I want to buy a stock but only if the price is 0.5 more than the opening price. I read all of IB's commands the only thing I've found close to what I want is stop orders now since I want it to be relative I guessed trailing stop would be good but I actually dont want it to follow...

Do you mean that in order to view SPY real-time I need to also register for : https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=marketData&p=mdata 'US Securities and Futures Value Bundle'(10$ -> waived) in addition to the NYSE(1.5$) & US Options(1.5$ -> waived)?

Thanks for the quick reply!

Hi I have never traded at USA so its all kinda new to me but I have opened an account at IB and when I logged in to TWS I saw that all my data is delayed, I was trying to look at SPY weekly options so I clicked on the 'click here to subscribe' I went to a screen with way too many data providers...