Interactive Brokers redesigns Client Portal Order Ticket
Electronic trading major Interactive Brokers has redesigned the Client Portal Order Ticket.
The Client Portal Order Ticket now uses a horizontal instead of a vertical layout which adapts better to different screen sizes. The new layout also helps users avoid having to scroll up and down to find fields as they create an order.
The vertical orientation is still available from the “Quick” order ticket that displays on the right side of the Client Portal interface.
Changes to the Order Ticket are also available in the Advisor Portal, along with support for Advisor Allocations. Advisors can now choose an existing Allocation Group from the Account/Group drop down. The default Allocation Method for the selected group is displayed in the order line and can be modified on a per-order basis as needed.
These updates are being released to clients gradually over the next few weeks.
Client Portal now also supports Trailing Stop and Trailing Stop Limit orders.
The raft of bug fixes to the portal include:
- Previously the value shown in the “Buying Power” field was being cut off. This has been fixed to show the full value.
- Interactive Brokers has added a Total Amount field to the Trades section of the Orders & Trades screen which shows the transaction total minus fees.
- The privacy toggle has been added back to Quote Details page.
- For users with multiple accounts, sometimes the “Deposit” button was linking to an incorrect account.
- When the Order Ticket is populated with a symbol and user opens Quote Details for a different ticker, the Symbol Search field was incorrectly showing the ticker from the Order Ticket.
- The Overnight contract was incorrectly being removed from a Watchlist if the user removed an instrument using the same symbol that was not overnight.
- Volume indicator has been disabled for those security types that do not support it, including Forex, commodities, and bonds.