IB's combination orders provide this sort of execution, where two or more legs of a combination order will execute, but only if the combined price...
I believe that "greek" is not who he claims to be. Notice that he claims to have been trading thru IB for 5 years, yet as of right now, this is...
Scottrade routed your order to a market-maker, who can profit by giving a bad trade price. The market-maker then paid a reward to Scottrade (but...
Who is your broker?
I sleep better at night because of the IB security device. It is well worth the minor hassle. I also think it is nuts to store an image of your...
Agreed. You should open a trouble ticket, in the trouble ticket system, and tell us what happens.
What if they are not too big to fail? What if they are too big to save?
This idea will not get you NBBO quotes. You will only be seeing the quotes displayed by the directed exchange you seek, not a chart of the SMART...
E-signal knows it provides a crappy service. This is why they try to lock people in to grossly overpriced long-term contracts. If they were truly...
I hope this doesn't mean that IB will make its own data less of a priority. I've tried E-signal, more than once, and came to the conclusion that...
Great news. IB's Oct. 20, 2008 communique announces that IB-SMART now includes the order routing algorithm I proposed and analyzed in this thread.
I opened a trouble ticket about this problem weeks ago. The customer service rep incorrectly responded that the problem appears to have resolved....
Nothing is free.
If there is a real problem, it should be solved by adjusting prices, not by busting trades. Busting trades creates totally unpredictable losses...
IB recommends using the latest Java 1.5, not 1.6.
You should escalate these issues to management so that they can be addressed, including the fact that lower level CS are not addressing your bug...
No, it is not true. Your statement is only true in a general sense. The rule has very many different exceptions allowing trades to be executed...
IB provides EFPs as a way to earn interest on the entire idle funds in the account, including the first $10K.
No. I quoted the 1934 Act, including any amendments since 1934, so that the quotation is up to date. The SEC, furthermore, lacks authority to...
I have version 884.6. I am sometimes seeing lagging or crossed quotes, missing quotes, missing last, hi, or lo, and sometimes, it pegs my CPU at...
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