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For example: I place an order to buy 5000 @ $10 with only 100 displaying. 100 will fill, the order will dissappear, someone at $9.90 gets filled 2600, after which my 100 shares (to buy 4900) will reappear at $10. So, I'm really not getting fills using these hidden island orders. What am I...

You sick fools who equate patriotism with buying stocks represent the LEAST PATRIOTIC of America, not the most.

IWAVE is available for trading at every other broker on Wall Street except IB. When I spoke with IB customer service I told him that I had been waiting for a week to buy shares in IWAVE (when the symbol changed) and he told me,"Well, then you should've called us and alerted us to the symbol...

Is it legal for a registered broker/dealer to NOT be capable of buying/selling in its markets? I wasn't sure whether IB actually WOULD place an order (buy/sell) for me over the phone, but I was surprised to find out they COULDN'T do it even if it was allowed. Apparently everyone there has to...

IB doesn't have the capability to make new symbols or symbol changes (like IWAVE) available to its traders right away. Customer service told me I have to wait 24 hours (for a system reboot) before I can buy more shares (or sell the shares I already own). I called them on the phone and tried to...

I have a position in IWAV and today the symbol changed to IWAVE. In a chat with customer service I was told I would have to wait 24 hours for their programmers to change the symbol in TWS. Is there anyone here who has had experience with this sort of thing and is there a way around this, as I...