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When entering an order the selection of time of order does not give the option for Overnight Trading. Which version of the Desktop TWS should be used to show that option? An order can be entered using the advanced tab but I’m curious as to why this option doesn’t appear as shown on the video.
Hi Michael, it’s not available in Stable (10.26) but is in Latest (so will also be in beta). We hope this answers your question!
There is a very big disadvantage in overnight displaying quotas which greatly reduces the usefulness of the overnight trading. Here it is:
Initially your system does not show orders with the number of shares less than 100.
Nevertheless for the overnight trading you have enabled the mechanism for rounding orders with the number of shares < 100 to a whole lot. I.e., an order with 7 shares, for example, will be shown as an order with 100 shares. And by the way, an order with shares from 100 to 199 will also be shown as an order with 100 shares. But that's not all! This mechanism is used only for your (IB) clients' orders. However if an order with shares < 100 is placed from another broker, the mechanism does not work and the order is not displayed. Moreover such order "screens" all orders that are lower in price (for bid) or higher (for ask). As a result we do not see real quotas, which makes it very difficult to trade overnight successfully.
The way to solve this problem is very simple – please make a display of the true number of shares in the orders without any rounding to whole lots, at least for overnight trading.
Thank you for your patience if you read to the end and thank you in advance if you do anything in this direction.
Hello Bob, thank you for reaching out. If you would like us to investigate further, please send an email with more details to social@ibkr.com. We kindly ask that you include screenshots of the messages you mentioned above as well as the email associated with your IBKR application/account. We look forward to assisting you.
What Bob said. Current showing of odd-lots as round lots is a huge disservice. Show the real number or allow the filtering out of odd-lots.
How to designate order object in API for overnight execution?
Hello, thank you for asking. Please see our blog post discussing API Overnight Trading in the TWS API and the Web API: https://www.ibkrcampusdev.wpengine.com/campus/ibkr-quant-news/api-overnight-trading/.
Yes, this has been a big problem since DAY 1,
Too many fills of only a few shares when they claim 100 bid or ask. Im not even sure its really odd lots . Just the liquidity provider not willing to sell more than a token number of shares. But you pay a full $1 commission and get a 5 share fill.
Also, Time and sales only shows up if you create a new OVERNIGHT line. Would be better to stream the BLUE dealer using the normal SMART quote line, if thats possible .
A bigger problem ….. NO SCANS for activity. No scans for changes in price or volume . The only way to see whats going on , is randomly looking at symbols you might already have loaded . I would have thought there would be an activity (trade count) scan by now.
Hello Jim, thank you for reaching out. We have passed your feedback about Overnight Trading to the appropriate team.
For time sensitive trading issues, please contact our Client Services team which can be reached by phone, live chat, or ticket. http://spr.ly/IBKR_ClientServicesCampus
Please review this page from our TWS user guide for the different market scanner types:
https://www.ibkrguides.com/tws/usersguidebook/technicalanalytics/market%20scanner%20types.htm
Please reach out with any more questions. We are here to help!