How to roll a futures options spread in TWS?

General Question

Let's say I'm short /ES 06Mar 6700/6675 Put spread and I want to roll it up 2 strikes to 6710/6685. How can I do this in TWS? Right-clicking the FOP spread in the Portfolio widget does NOT offer any "roll" function, just a close or a "flip combo" command.

I went to the IB site and looked it up. There's a Rollover Tool but it appears to only function with stocks. Plus, that tools assumes there is some underlying that you wrote covered calls against, e.g. AAPL. I trade only futures and futures options and I rarely do any kind of covered write. I also looked at SpreadTrader but that doesn't solve it either from what I can see.

Anyone have a tutorial they can point me to?

Posted Mar 6, 2026, 8:50 PM UTC

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