What are some good features you use on Interactive Brokers TWS software?

[chisel]

Is anyone seeing a new data column that TWS is forcing people to use called "Ticker Action"? If you try to remove it, it will just stay there. BS. It showed up just today when the stable version was updated.

Showed up here as well on the stable version. I was able to remove it, but I won't know whether it's gone for good until I restart TWS.

 

[tommcginnis]

No. Like I said, MtM PnL, aka, "Daily P&L" on the Portfolio tab. I couldn't care less what my realized PnL is for a day. Looking for MtM PnL (Daily PnL) up in the trader dashboard....for 8 years and counting.

On second view, what you're saying is so obvious, and yes, it is just *whacked* that such a useful, AND EASY TO CALCULATE number can't be obtained on the Trader Dashboard OR on the Account window, ferchrisake.

I even, *faintly*, recall such a beast...... under the name Change From Prior Day's _________
And now, nothing like that appears in the choices of available fields. (Although, both sides of the simple arithematic do....)

And the only place it appears?? As you said: right there in one squeaky little, nearly accidental "totals" line on the Portfolio tab.

HEY IB -- THIS WOULD BE *LOW*HANGING*FRUIT* okay??

Jus' sayin'.

 

[Mr.Wahdy]

IBAdaptive is pretty solid for what it does. I really just use IB to route and submit orders, although would be happy to replace with a better OEMS like RediPlus (may consider after they integrate with Eikon). Java is too clunky to work with, and for investment ideas I like to extract data and model in excel; IB TWS isn't really cut out for deep analysis.

 

[comagnum]

Although I am not a big fan of the TWS platform in general I like their scale trader and chart trading with brackets. I use TWS primarily for routing orders & for a backup.