This is a sequential process. Once the order has entered the auction process it can no longer be cancelled. The specialist or clerk will never...
That's only true if the country of residence has a tax treaty with the US that provides for full exemption. Most treaties declare full exemption...
Using BEST on listed stocks can be a very bad idea, for details see the discussion on the following thread...
A cancel attempt will be successful if it arrives at the post in time before the specialist has hit the fill key for your order (or a larger block...
Quite to the contrary, IB has taken away the option to trade with any of the regional exchanges and Nasdaq Intermarket dealers when they decided...
I don't subscribe to any of the conspiracy theories brought up by some on this thread as an explanation, and I don't think that the peculiarities...
The requirement to manually confirm API generated options orders are obviously due to exchange rules and we can't blame IB for taking the...
I wish I could share your faith in IB's management. But unfortunately I don't have quite as short a memory as you seem to have. Just last spring...
mskl has already made the case concerning deficiencies of BEST routing with options. Let me give you some examples with stocks. Listed stocks...
But there's no rules against sending automated stock orders to specific ECNs or eschanges.
Anyone hitting your short sale order chasing down the market will receive full price improvement (i.e. 20.00) regardless of what L2 shows at the...
No longer with IB. Last spring they decided it wasn't good for their customers to use ARCA for marketable listed stock orders.
I can't believe that IB has introduced APIs to their TWS software only to cripple the interfaces just a few weeks later in a way that makes them...
I can see your point in the case of options that are so illiquid or close to expiration that slippage in terms of spread exceeds the remaining...
Options exercise always takes place overnight. ITM options are excercised automatically by the OCC on expiration and the only time where early...
You're probably reusing old transaction IDs. TWS enforces the use of unique and ascending ID values even across sessions. To do this on every exit...
That quote feed performance would suffer in an OCX implementation compared to DDE is something that was clear even before they released the OCX....
Since last Thursday IB's order handling of stocks seems to be majorly screwed up when it comes to handling partially executed orders. Is anyone...
Based on def's post above the necessary automatic splitting of orders has been implemented since Monday. However, it seems that hey have forgotten...
I've still had non-marketable limit sell orders automatically cancelled yesterday when either a smaller sized long position was established or...
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