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Thanks Kim and Yowster! It's my first month trading live and first month with IB and first month with OptionNet so a lot of moving parts. Really appreciate the help. @Kim if you manage the calendars separately then how do you handle them in OptionNet explorer I like to see the whole trade in the graph with the profit etc. I could not figure out an elegant way to apply your style of keeping the calendars separate yet using OptionNet to Manage a double calendar trade. @ Yowster thanks I'll try the spread builder in my paper account to understand how that might work in the future.

For clarification: I entered the Apple double calendar all at the same time so in TWS they seem to be connected. I think Kim and the crew tend to buy calendars one at a time which would then allow us to get in at out of the separate calendars independently of each other. Seems I might be stuck with having to close the two calendars at the same time. Just wondering if there is a way to some how select as I mentioned above one calendar within a double. Thanks

Thanks Yowster I guess where I'm a bit stuck now is how to select just one calendar of a double calendar entry in TWS. I'm in classic mode and all the legs / calendars are under one drop down. Not sure how to select one calendar within that drop down. Does that make sense? Thanks

Morning all, I'm wondering what the best practice is to get out of a double calendar using IB. Seems to me that selecting all 4 legs the double calendar as a whole might make it tough to get out at a good price. I also don't want to leg out leaving open any naked position. Thanks for any help with this.

Sorry I'm still not getting it. with the current AMZN trade for example you posted that you had a BTO Nov 20 575put STO Oct 23 575 put when you say multiple strikes do you setup orders for 580 puts of the same trade and see what price you get? An example would help me understand. Thanks

Kim can you please post a screen shot of having multiple orders with multiple strikes going at the same time. I'm a bit confused and don't want to have a bunch or trades all filled at the same time. I'm sure what you are talking about is easy enough to do I'm just not understanding how to implement it in a safe way. Thanks

Juts tested it - Looks like both versions the standalone and the java applet based TWS can be used to connect to the data feed.

Bob, thanks so much for your input, please keep us posted on your VIX issue. I too was helped by Nicholas in a very timely manner via email. Great customer service, all I had to do was ask : ) All systems go !! In case anyone else is having problems getting the API to connect 'll list what I ran into and what Nicholas advised me to do to resolve it. I turned on the API settings in TWS via this how-to from OptionNet: http://support.optionnetexplorer.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/41 But I was still getting an API connection error. Nicholas had me do the following test - Client3 Test: 1. Open TWS 2. Open API Test program Client3 from directory C:\TWS API\samples\TestActiveX_VC\Release 3. Select connect and press ok within the Client3 test program. 4. Then select Req Contract Data 5. Within the contract description change Symbol to IBM (uppercase) 6. Type to OPT (uppercase) and press enter Within the TWS Server Response a completed request will be displayed as: ID=****==========END========= I could never do this connection test because I got a "side by side ..." error message so he sent me this link , which had steps to resolve the "side by side" error message. Once i did this I was able to run the Client3 program and thus view my active API connection. Once I fired up TW and IB data was getting to OptionNet everything worked fine. Side note - I was a bit confused about the different flavors of TWS the stand alone downloaded version and the version that get's launched from the website. I'll reach out to Nicholas but I think that one must use the standalone down loaded version to use the API is this correct? Hope this helps. Thanks.

Thanks Kim I'll hit them up today.

Thanks for this walk through. I'm still stuck on getting optionNet and the IB api to talk to each other. I'm on windows 8.1. I've looked at a few of the tutorials on Option Net and IB regarding this. I have a paid subscription to OptionNet and I have an account with IB. Questions : 1. I saw the area where an account number can be added to the OptionNet settings but see no mention of this in any of the how to's on OptionNet's site. will it work without an account number? Where did you read about adding an account number? 2. Are you using the stand alone version of TWS? 3. Did you ever get the API 9.7.1 must be installed when you tried to set this up? If so can u point me to the documents or help desk that you used? Thanks

Hey thanks for posting this. Do you use TOS for the OptionNet Explorer live feed or IB? KAS