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Post Trade Allocations

The Post Trade Allocations page lets you allocate some or all of your US stock, options and US corporate bond trades to defined clearing brokers. Make allocations any time during the trading day, from seconds after execution up until 6:00 PM ET. Note that you must first define settlement instructions (located on the Funding > Instructions page) before you can allocate any trades post-trade.

To activate the Post Trade Allocation feature, you must first have IB Execution services enabled. Contact us at primeserve@interactivebrokers.com for more information.

Who can access the Post Trade Allocations page?

You can access this page if you are have an account with IB Execution Services configured. For more information, see Institutional Services

Use post-trade allocations to:

• Allocate any time during the day: up until 6:00 pm ET for equities and up until 5:15 PM ET for options; After this time, your trades will automatically be allocated using the selected default clearing destination.
• Quickly unallocate any trades before the end of the day.
• Configure re-usable allocation templates that allow you to quickly allocate one or multiple trades to a pre-defined clearing broker or set of clearing brokers.
• Import allocations from a properly-formatted .csv file.
• Create a custom Average Price trade by selecting trades for the same symbol and side where only the price differs. By default an average price display is expandable to show actual trades and trade prices.
• Define configuration preferences including allocation settings, display preferences and symbol display.
• Manage odd lots allocations. By default, the feature is set to allow round lots only.