After hours trade via hotkey

[mlsignups]

I have a hotkey/saved order that i try to execute after hrs to interactive brokers.  it works fine during regular hours but after hrs I get the following message:

IB SERVER RESPONSE: oRDER mESSAGE:   Buy xxx TSLA...  NASDAQ.NMS

Warning: your order will not be placed at the exchange until xxx

I assume I maybe have to change a parameter to let it work after hours?    

[mlsignups]

Currently TIF = default.   Does that need to be day_ext or one of the other options?

[Jerry Medved]

the error is sent by IB if you send a DAY (or I think GTC) order after regular hours. 

DEFAULT tif means that the hotkey will take the TIF value from whatever screen you are executing it on. So if on a chart, it will take it from whatever TIF is selected on top, on the toolbar, TRADING tab.

you would either have to manually change that to DAY_ext, or you can set your hotkey to explicitly specify day_ext as the TIF value

[mlsignups]

thanks

by the way; really liking the hotkeys/saved orders.   I've got about 6 buttons that each execute a different trade based on rules that calculate the # of shares based on targeted stop losses and it's so much easier to just stay in the system and execute the trades with the buttons then jumping to the broker.

[Kasper]

Jerry, if you can allow edit expression for TIF in hotkey, this can be easily managed through conditional. This way, use same hotkey for both pre/post market as well as regular trading hours.

[Mike Medved]

I will make the TIF field freestyle so you can put formulas in there.