Anyone using IB's Mobile Trader (MT) platform?
Also, def, in case you read this, I posted the following suggestions to the IB Forum, with no response:
The value in MB to me is in the ability to follow orders that I may have put on with the TWS while I was working from home. Now, if I have to leave home and shut down the TWS, I would still like to have these orders working in the market. However, here is my problem. I trade so many times a day in so many different underlying, that when I log on to the MT, it takes me too long to figure out which positions have executed since I left home and shut down the TWS.
My suggestion was to have a feature of MB such that it would display any filled orders (or partial orders) in it's own "executions page" since I shut down TWS. This way I would know that those are the ones that need my attenton. A line like the following would be ideal:
C -1000P 36.48 -1000 36.37 x 36.39 50 x 50 BB SA BA SB
GE 2000 27.20 3000 27.23 x 27.25 100 x 50 BB SA BA SB
The first line would say that, since I shut down the TWS, I sold Citigroup in the amount of 1000 shares, that it was a partial fill at 36.48, that I am now short 1000 shares, that the current bid is 36.37 and the current ask is 36.39, and that there is 5000 by 5000 on the bid/ask. Finally, BB is a link allowing one to set up an order to buy bid, and SA is a link allowing one to set up an order to sell Ask, BA is a link allowing one to set up an order to buy ask, and SB is a link allowing one to set up an order to sell Bid. The line follwing would be similar for GE, etc...
This would make MT a killer application for me.
nitro
Also, def, in case you read this, I posted the following suggestions to the IB Forum, with no response:
The value in MB to me is in the ability to follow orders that I may have put on with the TWS while I was working from home. Now, if I have to leave home and shut down the TWS, I would still like to have these orders working in the market. However, here is my problem. I trade so many times a day in so many different underlying, that when I log on to the MT, it takes me too long to figure out which positions have executed since I left home and shut down the TWS.
My suggestion was to have a feature of MB such that it would display any filled orders (or partial orders) in it's own "executions page" since I shut down TWS. This way I would know that those are the ones that need my attenton. A line like the following would be ideal:
C -1000P 36.48 -1000 36.37 x 36.39 50 x 50 BB SA BA SB
GE 2000 27.20 3000 27.23 x 27.25 100 x 50 BB SA BA SB
The first line would say that, since I shut down the TWS, I sold Citigroup in the amount of 1000 shares, that it was a partial fill at 36.48, that I am now short 1000 shares, that the current bid is 36.37 and the current ask is 36.39, and that there is 5000 by 5000 on the bid/ask. Finally, BB is a link allowing one to set up an order to buy bid, and SA is a link allowing one to set up an order to sell Ask, BA is a link allowing one to set up an order to buy ask, and SB is a link allowing one to set up an order to sell Bid. The line follwing would be similar for GE, etc...
This would make MT a killer application for me.
nitro
