I had several conversations with people at Schwab.
From my experience, in order to have a S/W released by February, it should be already in testing by mid January. Testing S/W thoroughly takes a lot of time and resources.
Therefore, the list of improvements (if any) must have been closed...
It is hard for me to think that Schwab was taken by surprise by the reaction of their traders. It must have been a conscious and weighted decision to make the move of cancelling CyberTrader and replacing it for the downgraded SSPro.
Schwab management, conservative as they are, should have...
I read this series of postings today, as I was hopeless looking for an alternative to CT that would be acceptable, since today I decided to leave Schwab.
The reason for that was that I intended to short some stock, sent the order and waited. I saw the price go over my limit in one direction...