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So, this is funny. After placing one of our calendar spreads today, I noticed that one of the underlying PUT contracts was not being updated in IB TWS, and it was still showing yesterday's close price (prefixed with a 'c'). Interestingly, Time & Sales showed trades and Yahoo Finance also showed a different LAST price for that contract.

 

After talking to IB Tech Support, it turns out that they don't update the LAST price of the contract if the trade belonged to a spread. That's what the yellow arrow means in the Time and Sales panel.

 

Did you know that? This essentially means that I don't have a real-time P&L view into my spread... I'm flying blind...

Posted

While this is a bit annoying, but last prices are not too relevant anyway. What if the last price from one leg was from an hour ago and from another leg from the previous day? All you should care about is mid prices.

 

As for P/L - no broker gives you good P/L tracking. Personally I'm using ONE software.

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But how do you get an idea of where you are standing at? As part of a spread, I have a LNKD May01'15 265 PUT for which, according to IB, the last price was c14.48.

However in the T&S I see that it last traded for 13.57.

That's almost a 7% difference...

Posted

You just look at mid prices, based on the mids of the individual legs. If you have ONE software, you don't have to worry about it, it does the job for you.

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