IB Suggestions & Improvements

More of a bug than a suggestion. The ZN spread currently show -0'285 by -0'285, which is 28.5/32. But one of those should be -0'282 or 28.25/32. Spreads trade in quarters of the 32nds. Likewise, when I view my executions, it show -0'285 when I really executed at -28.25/32.

Can you add the 2 (for .25/32) and 7 (for .75/32) to both the quote screen and execution reports.
 
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As a news trader, I would like to see some kind of news feed offering. This is the only service outside of IB I am currently subscribed to. But it is difficult to get a reasonably priced service, since news are usually only add-ons to full-service platforms, so you have to pay the platform fees.

This could either be done by integrating a news window in TWS (which the purists will hate) or by simply offering IB customers a deal for a separate front-end like Newsware's Newswatch.

The number of news sources offered could be small, DJ Broadtape would do it for me.
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i second that one. which service do you use right now? the DJ web based ? later
 
It would be nice to be able to enter an option volatility and have the TWS calculate a price. So basically you enter the volatility for an option instead of the price in an order
 
Quote from dont:

It would be nice to be able to enter an option volatility and have the TWS calculate a price. So basically you enter the volatility for an option instead of the price in an order
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Go to the TWS online manual and search for volatility trading. You'll find the description of how to do that.
 
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Go to the TWS online manual and search for volatility trading. You'll find the description of how to do that.
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Thanks not quite what I mean.

What I would like is the ability to put a bid/offer in using the implied volatility as the parameter so as the spot changes the system changes the price of the option automatically. I realise you can program this via the API, but it would be nice to have it in the TWS
 
This does not apply to me, but some of my friends.

Give interest on balances less than $10,000. Currently it is 0%, but imagine if you have a regular IB account which trades actively and a small IRA account which does not trade actively. It is going to be hard for that small IRA account to grow in value without a little bit of help from credit interest.
 
Allow default setting for charts (so we don't have to click, click, click to get a chart going). Also, allow settings (like switching from 5 min to 15 minute or 2 minute) to be changed from the graph/chart itself.
 
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