It was a piece of tape where the PNL was on my monitor in the corner, while i was learning, because there is no way to remove PNL on IB's platform altogether, you are clearly a moron, any time you want to compare blotters, or trading calls let me know.
Is there anyway to remove the daily P&L on Interactive Brokers?
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It was a piece of tape where the PNL was on my monitor in the corner, while i was learning, because there is no way to remove PNL on IB's platform altogether, you are clearly a moron, any time you want to compare blotters, or trading calls let me know.
Couldn't you just resize the window so it covers up that bottom portion of the screen? Don't know that platform, but if it is running on MS Windows, there has to be a way to not see that bit without the need to put physical tape on your physical monitor. Just a bit of scrolling + window resizing and whatnot?
Windows always tries to blow shit up to full screen when you try to raise it through the top, or drop it through the bottom, most likely there were many better ways i could have done it, I dont claim to be a computer genius
But i wanted all of my charts, and windows being in the places they were, only way i could think to get rid of the PNL, and still have my windows aligned was to was to take a 1 inch piece of electrical tape (about the size of a bandaid) and cover the corner of one monitor.While my solution may sound pretty crazy, it was the only solution i could think of at the time to get rid of PNL, and maintain my screens the way i liked them, its a huge flaw with IB that you cant simply get rid of it.
It sounds amateurish but i was a noob, having a problem getting over the 500 dollar per day mark, i would always trade smaller once i got close to that number, and bigger when i was in the hole, so i was costing myself big money.
"Trading your PNL" is a major problem newer traders face, this is over a decade ago, but i still remember it like it was yeterday, and remember how liberating it was when i simply blocked anything that would show my numbers till the end of the day. These days its not a problem, but back then i made most of my position sizing decisions based on how much i was up/down on the day.
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Look at my Screenshot. Is there any pnl? Please go back to the basement in P&R where you belong, basement roach. So you used real tape. This should go into the 101 idiot tips for beginning traders list at ET. Baron, any chance to have that list set up?
You still are a noob and a pretty disingenuous one at that, if you still cannot admit there are ways, average intelligent people handle such issue. Certainly not with tape. OMG.
Windows always tries to blow shit up to full screen when you try to raise it through the top, or drop it through the bottom, most likely there were many better ways i could have done it, I dont claim to be a computer genius
While my solution may sound pretty crazy, it was the only solution i could think of at the time to get rid of PNL, and maintain my screens the way i liked them, its a huge flaw with IB that you cant simply get rid of it.
It sounds amateurish but i was a noob, having a problem getting over the 500 dollar per day mark, i would always trade smaller once i got close to that number, and bigger when i was in the hole, so i was costing myself big money.
"Trading your PNL" is a major problem newer traders face, this is over a decade ago, but i still remember it like it was yeterday, and remember how liberating it was when i simply blocked anything that would show my numbers till the end of the day. These days its not a problem, but back then i made most of my position sizing decisions based on how much i was up/down on the day.
Your using the old style of IB's interface, the portfolio management one, on the new version, the Mosiac version i believe its called, the main screen that shows all of your positions has your PNL right above it with no way to get rid of it. You can get rid of the PNL in the position column but not up top. Like I said this was in the top corner of my far left screen i put a piece of tape over it, im not sure what your problem is, but anyone who is on IB can attest to what I have said, like i said its no longer an issue, and i dont do my main trading on IB anymore anyways only use it for retirement accounts t
so its not a big deal. I was merely trying to offer someone advice, not to focus to hard on PNL as it was a mistake i made, and for some reason you feel the need to troll me.
Here is a screen shot since you dont appear to know how the other version of IB looks, you can minimize the PNL down below by shrinking the column but cant get rid of the main PNL one, (as far as i know) like i said it was over ten years ago when i needed to do this.
You sound like a very angry person you should seek help.
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There is no old and new. There are smart things to solve problems and then there are stupid people who do all sorts of stupid things, such as spreading tape and glue all over their monitors to hide pnl columns. Congratulations, you definitely fit the latter group. Happy weekend to you and enjoy your time scrubbing that glue off your screens after I showed you how normal people remove undesired columns on their screens.
Maybe Baron was right: suppressing free speech is the wrong way to go about doing things : let the "bright sparks" talk freely to let them expose their intellect to everyone by themselves.
Maybe Baron was right: suppressing free speech is the wrong way to go about doing things : let the "bright sparks" talk freely to let them expose their intellect to everyone by themselves.
Any time you want to compare trading calls and blotters let me know, you are a troll and a coward who only seems to know how to act like an asshole.
I noticed the fact you didnt post your blotter from today after i posted mine, which means, as i suspected, you arent even in my league, get a life.
On that note, until you post a blotter or a trading call im done with you, not going to litter this guys thread.
In case you have not noticed, I was the only one here who provided a simple, workable, quick solution that exactly solved the issue OP was having. Please go back to P&R and talk about Trump. That is where you are at your "best". Farmer.
And congratulations, your president just started a new war because he saw a few photos and because he thinks he will scare North Korea. OMG. Stupidity leading the stupid. Unbelievable.
And congratulations, your president just started a new war because he saw a few photos and because he thinks he will scare North Korea. OMG. Stupidity leading the stupid. Unbelievable.
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Couldn't you click the little X to get rid of the window (the portfolio one which has the total PnL)?