Come on... It has to be a technology play. Clearly optionsXpress did not pick them up for the client base. Their book wasn't that big. I'm interested to see if they start offering the OEC platform to optionsXpress clients.
I'm curious as I am currently considering OEC. Are you running the Live platform or the Demo platform? What software / data feed are you comparing against?
I heard they rolled out options in their OEC Trader but only in demo? Has anyone tried it? I know the web platform they currently offer is not very good. Is this much of an improvement?
Been doing some research on this myself. I have a system I'm looking to write to an API. I ran across Open E Cry a couple weeks ago as I'm demoing their connection to Collective2. It appears, based on their site that they have an open API which will not require their software to be running in...
I signed up for a demo of C2 with Open E Cry. There is a 14 day free trial. The process to set it up was pretty simple and the interface has been seamless...so far (only been on it for 5 days). They even provided me with a read only eversion of OEC's softwaer so that I can monitor trades...