Fixed Income Trading for TWS

Articles From: Interactive Brokers
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Whether you are a new to the world of fixed income trading or an experienced professional, our course is structured to help you configure and locate bonds available for trading in TWS. Each lesson addresses a specific aspect to the subject from the perspective of the user looking to quickly move ahead with distilling the world of bonds on the platform. The lessons contain appropriate shortcuts to accelerate the process of getting ready to place a bond trade.

The sample video below is a lesson of the series covering the Global Bond Scanner.

In this lesson you will learn how to access the IB Global Bond Scanner and how to filter for bonds within a universe in order to locate fixed income products to match user-driven criteria. The material covered in this lesson can be applied to corporate bonds, US treasuries, US CDs, municipal bonds, agency bonds and non-US sovereigns.

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IBKR’s Traders’ Academy offers complimentary courses which use a blended delivery of lessons, videos, quizzes and notes to help clients have a better understanding of the asset classes, markets, currencies, tools and functionality available on IBKR’s award-winning Trader Workstation (TWS), IBKR Mobile, Client Portal and TWS API applications.  Plus, we have partnered with several third parties to create courses on a variety of introductory and intermediate topics.  It’s easy to start, just register on Traders’ Academy for full courses and begin to watch lessons and take quizzes to test your knowledge!

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