IB Short Roll Finder

⚠️ **Finance warning / Avertissement finance** : informational only, not investment advice. This skill analyzes positions in a REAL Interactive Brokers account and proposes roll and covered call candidates: every candidate is a trade you would still have to place yourself and judge yourself, a roll can lock in a loss or add risk instead of reducing it, there is a real risk of loss on every short option position, and no output here is a promise of return. Curated by Skill Harbor: the IB short roll finder of staskh/trading_skills. Use it when you ask about rolling a short option position, finding roll candidates, writing covered calls, or managing option positions at Interactive Brokers. The skill auto-detects what you hold for the symbol and switches mode accordingly: with an existing short option position it analyzes roll candidates to other expirations and strikes (roll mode), with a long option position it finds the best short leg to complete a vertical spread (spread mode), and with long stock it finds the best covered call, or protective put, to open (new short mode); with none of these it returns an error unless you specify strike and expiry manually. The strike search band is IV-aware, scaled from the at-the-money implied volatility, the days to expiry of the nearest roll expiry and a multiplier you can raise for high-IV names, and the current position data includes IV and delta from IB model greeks. The output is a markdown report saved locally, leading with the recommended position and its credit or debit. Stated exactly as its SKILL.md describes it: this is an analysis and reporting tool, the script reads positions and real-time data and produces candidate reports, and no execution mode or order placement is described anywhere in the skill; any roll you decide on is placed by you, in TWS, yourself. From the staskh/trading_skills repository (MIT). Honest caveats: this reads your real account through TWS or IB Gateway on your own machine, port 7497 is paper trading and port 7496 is the live real-money account, and the skill retries on the other port if the first fails, so check which account the data came from and start on paper; your credentials belong only in the local gateway or in environment variables such as IB_PORT, never in a chat. Dependencies are ib-async and yfinance, and all timestamps use the America/New_York timezone. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.