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Optimize your trading speed and efficiency with our market-maker designed Trader Workstation (TWS). Trade stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds, and funds on over 90 markets worldwide, all from a single account. IB’s TWS offers the following benefits: |
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 An easy to use spreadsheet-like interface with real-time market data and quick-click order entry.
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Task-specific trading tools to enhance efficiency for all trading styles, including the Accumulate/Distribute algo, FXTrader, ScaleTrader, SpreadTrader, OptionTrader and more.
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Real-time account balance and activity monitoring, with a real-time margining system that notifies you of margin deficiencies before liquidation becomes necessary.
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Support for more than 50 different order types, from the basic limit order to the most complex algo.
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Sophisticated, built-in risk management and option pricing applications.
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An optional Paper Trading account, linked to your production account, that lets you experiment with the full range of TWS features in a simulated environment.
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The TWS Quote Monitor is a searchable, spreadsheet-like interface that allows you to quickly create and submit orders on any product directly from a ticker line. Create multiple pages to organize your trading environment, and get single-click access to real-time trade reports, account monitoring, price/risk analytics and more. |
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Choose from over 50 different order types and algos that can help to limit your risk, speed execution, provide price improvement, ensure privacy, time the market and streamline the implementation of advanced trading strategies. TWS context-sensitivity helps to ensure that your order is always valid by hiding features that aren’t supported for selected attributes, destinations or products.
Execute large volume orders using our IBAlgos, which balance market impact with risk to help you achieve best execution on your large volume stock and option orders.
For more information on our order types and algos, see the User Guide. |
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Our comprehensive suite of sophisticated mathematical risk-assessment and price-measuring tools comes standard with TWS and includes:
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View your portfolio risk across multiple asset classes, and view and assess specific risk slices of your portfolio with IB Risk Navigator.
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The Model Navigator is a sophisticated option model pricing tool that lets you modify pricing assumptions and include them in the model price calculation.
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The Option Analytics page displays values that reflect the rate of change of an option's price with respect to a unit change in a number of risk parameters.
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View your positions, profit and loss, margin requirements and excess liquidity in real-time in the customizable Account window. |
View account balances, margin, funds available for trading, market value and portfolio data for all of your products in a customizable, easy-to-read account window.
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View P&L on your trading screen as well as in the Account Information window.
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Quick-glance summaries of potential deficiencies help you avoid liquidation, and "what if" Portfolio Margining shows your margin requirements using the Portfolio Margining system.
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Expandable trade reports let you see daily executions as well as net trading activity by symbol.
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