 Posted 8/10/2007 12:18:23
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Bill, nice answer on the IB forum about handling options with RE. I have some follow-up questions. How do you specify an options contract in a watchlist? Is it "IBMIT" for the IBM Sep 100 Call? What if the underlying is a two-letter symbol like "IP"? I gather that RE buy and buy-limit processing would parse the symbol correctly into a proper IB order? The other thing that becomes a question is, is there something in the works that lets one request a chain, possibly for display in a UI, coupled with the ability dynamically add a selected strike(s) to a watchlist?
-Pete
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Posted 8/10/2007 12:59:08
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| Almost. You don't have to specify anything beyond the root symbol. Do it like this: 
The reason why is that different brokers and data providers specify symbols in different ways. We wanted to provide a layer of abstraction. The only thing that could throw this off is the exchange. This might be named differently from broker to broker. phg (8/10/2007)
Bill, nice answer on the IB forum about handling options with RE. I have some follow-up questions. How do you specify an options contract in a watchlist? Is it "IBMIT" for the IBM Sep 100 Call? What if the underlying is a two-letter symbol like "IP"? I gather that RE buy and buy-limit processing would parse the symbol correctly into a proper IB order? The other thing that becomes a question is, is there something in the works that lets one request a chain, possibly for display in a UI, coupled with the ability dynamically add a selected strike(s) to a watchlist?
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