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Yes thats how IB informed me but with the new margin rules, if a broken wing iron condor is created its only 50 margin as opposed to 75 that would be required as in your eg

If you ever used option trader with IB you will know you use the "Option spreads" ,combo or leg by leg selection to create an iron condor, but either way IB have informed me that if a 5 point wide call credit spread is combined with a 2 point wide put credit spread, 7 points in margin is required.

how do the new margin rules for iron condors as detailed in http://www.moneyshow.com/trading/article/42/VideoTransTr-30529/Changes-in-Option-Margins/ effect those who open an iron condor with the call side say 5points wide and put side 2 points wide with IB, is this even possible with IB...

please add it asap. this feature is lacking for traders who want to make a big saving, esp for wide spreads. increments + / - from mid be nice. can you give us a time frame ? within a month? by September? thanks

IB's Option Trader should have the ability to set a limit order that is based on the mid of the bid and ask or %above / below bid ask , WHEN a condition is met, eg if spy reaches 161, an option leg or spread, can have it's order transmitted to buy or sell, at limit, based on the mid between...

nice, when you ran two monitors extra on your dell vostro 3700 laptop (=> 3 screens) did you require any additional hardware like matrox , or did you simply connect into the laptop's HDMI and VGA sockets? the higher the resolution the more the desktop space right? what resolution is the 30"...

an adequate set up for me, would be for my laptop to connect to 2 external monitors with the same resolution as my laptop 1920x1200. I saw a youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRo8DOZKhy8 would this Triton (a bargain compared with matrox dual head 2go?)allow my lenovo laptop T61p...

thanks for letting us know MTE, if one is annual other is daily why not just *360 , why 260? and why do u have to take the square root? IB is the daily IV ? how do we set the IB's IV so it is the same?

kapw7, the screen to right is from www.optionseducation.org , theyre real good options site with great customer support. u trade options with IB as well? just pm me

it confounds me why the option's, bid, ask, greeks data in my IB software match with other reliable sources of data, eg www.optionseducation.org OR http://www.option-price.com/implied-volatility.php (both ~match) when the underlying is at same price, BUT the IV% is so far out from my IB...

I'm over in asia just now, and time is currently 12hours ahead of US ET, so confusion can arise when looking at the time and sales, anyhow l set it up to have US ET time zone, tws has taken up the time on bottom right, so time and sales problem will hopefully not arise again, otherwise u will...

thanks for willingness to look into it IBsoft :) the CSmanager kindly explained to me that it is because of a conflict of time zones, so I have set my computer to US ET time now and hope this problem won't arise again. thanks

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April 10th 2012, Tuesday, 10:23:46 ,sell SPY bear put combo (sell 140 buy 138put) 140put 138put, details in attachment, as you can see from the the attached time and sales of the individual legs, 1.23 should of been received. by selling at the bid of 140p and buying at the ask of the 138p. Got...

I had set a conditional sell market order on an option spread, the condition was met, so it became a market sell order. I received 1.14 but the time and sales show l should of received min 1.23, by selling at the bid and buying another leg at the ask 3.07(the bid price of the 140put)-1.84(ask...

it is not good trading to have a OCA order for option combos / spreads without taking into account quantity. so if have a quantity of 13 bear call spreads, and have two orders linked by OCA, order A to buy back 10 and order B to buy back all 13, at different prices , if order A is executed a...

yes, it seems to work now, but is there a way of executing 2 or more OCA orders all in one go from option trader?

I thought I was the only one who went from 6 figures to 3 because of zero money management, ie no OCA for option spreads. Tried Build 923 as well, and it didn't work.

Well, they shouldn't raise hopes by saying by end of year. I am one of those who had a portfolio margin feasible account but now down to 3 figures. If they had this money management feature for spreads like they do for single legs, I am sure these frightening figures wouldn't be seen. I traded...

Yes, Stan M of customer service looked at audit trail with me, and indeed he confirmed, the order was put in as a stop limit sell order. heres the excerpt of the chat: "Stan M: I just expanded the audit trail, and now I see that it was a stop limit order, placed at 16:10:51, but then...