Recent content by WonkoTheSane

Hi stevet, while I have been hit by the quote delays in the past (even though not as bad as other, it seems), I have not heard about orders not getting through. There is a problem every one or two months with 2 or 3 orders of mine, but I think that's nothing unusual. No system works 100% of...

I also downgraded, to 753.6, and did not experience any of the problems again. Unfortunately, a friend of mine has also had those problems we all know. Unfortunately, because I got to know today that he is was using exactly the version that I downgraded to when he had the problems on thursday...

Baron, I run a fairly big board myself over here in germany. About 1000 visitors a day. I am very happy that some vendors stop by every now and then to help in solving problems. I have total understanding for part of what you're saying. If you have a no-acquisition policy, that's easy to...

If this is true, it is time to find an ALTERNATIVE to this board. FAST. I hate censorship if it's motivated this way. Barron's sponsors should rather put their time into improving their own companies' performances instead of trying to avoid competition like this. This sucks BIG TIME. W.

@dchoran: While IB help desk is known not to be very helpful with problems, I also have to say that problems as bad as these are not happening often. I am an IB customer since about a year and have only had 1 major problem before this one. That problem was related to a very old version of the...

Sigh - I'm not alone! I've had those screwed-up quotes just the way it was reported here: Negative Bid/Ask sizes, quotes totally off the market, quotes lagging behind - you name it. I had the impression it got worse over time and was OK for a while when I closed and restarted the TWS, though...

Hi out there, I was wondering why no one mentioned one important fact on this subject. There is a significant difference in business for IB between equity and options orders. I think it explains partially why options orders are default-routed to ISE and are hard to trade with IB. While IB...

Hi, I AM using IB, and have often used OCA orders. The way of breaking up the orders into packages would definitely work. I think I even read something in the documentation that mentioned the other orders in the same group would be deducted in size by the amount that has been executed. So...

I also had that problem, but I was able to work around it by duplicating the order, canceling it, and then transmitting the duplicate. This worked 95% of the time, so I didn't worry about it a lot. Good to know someone was a little more hard-headed and got the to take notice of the problem. My...

I had a terrible experience with IB once. I daytraded the DAX (german index) future and the front end told me my position was closed out by their system. I could still see the contract on my position window though and still had the margin requirements. I called support, and they took 48 HOURS to...

Hi, maybe you want to try an alternative to TC2000? I demo'ed TC2k some tie ago and was a little unhappy with it's lack of flexibility, especially for stock scanning. I am currently demoing QuotesPlus and am very impressed. The scans are totally programmable, the charting is not worse than...