Why can't I do an adaptive order on Futures Options?

External question — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Hisham Hijjawi Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/149907 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Interactive Brokers has the ability to adaptive algorithmic orders that (I'm simplifying this greatly) can split the difference in the bid ask price without human intervention. I can do these types of orders for equity and index options but not futures options. Does anybody know why? I don't like to submit plain old market orders since I want to get the best price possible.

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Bob Baerker Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/150164 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Interactive Brokers offers adaptive algorithmic orders for equity and index options. They do not offer them for futures or for futures options (see their web page that lists available order types for each of these securities). As to why they don't offer this order type on futures, you'd have to call them for that explanation.