Basket trading on IB TWS

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danjuma

Hello all. Is there a way to monitor the PnL total of a basket trade (in this instance a basket of spot forex pairs) on TWS and close the basket (in one go) when it hits my target or loss? Thank you
 
danjuma said:
Hello all. Is there a way to monitor the PnL total of a basket trade (in this instance a basket of spot forex pairs) on TWS and close the basket (in one go) when it hits my target or loss? Thank you
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Put the underlyings (your forex data lines) on a separate tab, right-click a "total-able" column and click on Show Total Row, and that set of totals will only be your self-segregated quotes. Bingo.
 
tommcginnis said:
Put the underlyings (your forex data lines) on a separate tab, right-click a "total-able" column and click on Show Total Row, and that set of totals will only be your self-segregated quotes. Bingo.
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Thanks for your reply. Though doesn't show the cumulative PnL of the whole basket, but I suppose I can work that out manually. I suppose there is no way to close the basket as a whole in one go (i.e. not having to close each trade individually)?
 
There is no way for TWS to determine "cumulative" anything -- that will be something different for every account, and even then, may differ for individual accounts from one instant to the next.

To close this "basket" as a whole:
1) investigate BasketTrader
2) load indidudual trades, pausing execution, and then Transmit All or Transmit Page as appropriate.

This would be a fine time for you NOT to trade your live account, but to bring up your PAPER account, and make it work there, first. Everyone has to make a first trade (of whatever type) sometime, but you are swinging a large-caliber weapon around, announcing "I don't know how this works."
 
tommcginnis said:
There is no way for TWS to determine "cumulative" anything -- that will be something different for every account, and even then, may differ for individual accounts from one instant to the next.

To close this "basket" as a whole:
1) investigate BasketTrader
2) load indidudual trades, pausing execution, and then Transmit All or Transmit Page as appropriate.

This would be a fine time for you NOT to trade your live account, but to bring up your PAPER account, and make it work there, first. Everyone has to make a first trade (of whatever type) sometime, but you are swinging a large-caliber weapon around, announcing "I don't know how this works."
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Thanks for the response. I have investigated BasketTrader, and indeed I have used it to transmit all the orders at once (paper trading of course), but alas there does not appear to be the facility/ability to close them all at once. Basically what I am trying to do is open a basket of FX pairs, if target or stop loss hit (as a basket) close all at once (as a basket).
 
moskvich said:
I programmed something similar using TWS API. PM me if interested
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I will be most interested please. Just can't seem to be able to figure out how to PM you. Would it be the option that states 'start private read'?
 
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