Market Scanners

The Market Scanner automatically populates a pre-formatted trading page with the top fifty contracts based on the instrument, parameter and filtering criteria you define.

To create a Market Scanner page

1. On the Page menu select Create Market Scanner. A new Market Scanner page is created as a new tab.

2. In the Instrument field select from the list. Available scans currently include:

3. • US stocks, options, futures,  indexes, corporate bonds and EFPs.

NOTE: Selecting US Options opens the Penny Options price page, which scans for options that have penny prices. You cannot use traditional scanner parameters for US Options.

• • America Non-US Futures

  • Europe stocks, futures and indexes

  • Asia stocks, futures and indexes

3. Choose the location/exchange whose data will be included in the market scan. The valid locations change in response to the instrument you selected in Step 2.

4. Click in the Filter field to narrow the contracts that will be returned in your query. For example, you may only want to see the Top % US Stock Gainers within a certain P/E range, or with a capitalization above 2,000,000.

5. Choose a Scanner parameter, such as Top % Gainers, Hot Contracts by Price or Top Option Implied Volatility in the Parameter field.

6. Click Query to return the top 50 contracts that meet your search criteria. Data is updated every 60 seconds.

NOTE: The Time in Scan field shows how long the asset has been included in the scan. It refreshes each minute when the data query updates.

Note that you cannot modify page layout or initiate an order from a Market Scanner page, but you can drag and drop a ticker onto another of your trading pages. You can create multiple Market Scanner pages and detach Market Scanner pages, but these are counted as trading pages, and the market data displayed is counted as active market data.

IB's daily Options and Futures Intelligence Report uses the TWS Market Scanner data as the basis for its commentary.

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