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I upgraded to 754.2 and encountered this today. I wonder if it has anything to do with alarms? I set an alarm for the bid on TYC MAR02 30 CALL BEST, and when it sounded I switched to the page and saw problems immediately: the bid size was -175, and the BEST bid was 4.50 while the best of the...

You can type in something like rqjcv#amex. (It'd be nice if you could enter symbol#best, too, but it currently doesn't allow that.) This is described in http://www.interactivebrokers.com/html/webhelp/Using_TWS/Adding_Contract_Symbol.htm.

They also take bank/cashier's checks. I've found that about 3 days after I put a bank check in the mailbox (I'm in northern NJ, they're in CT), it's credited to my account.

I do this, but over the past few weeks I've been having an increasing number of incidents where when I place a BEST limit order it's assigned to PHLX, even when PHLX isn't providing a quote for that side of the order. But there's another problem: a good percentage of the time, when I try to...

Thanks. The stated reason for busting my buy was that the underlying stock had a delayed open and the option should not have been trading. So 70 minutes after I had bought it and 30 minutes after I'd sold it, the initial buy was undone and I found myself short. After doing a third trade to...

Do brokers generally refund the commission when a trade gets busted? I'm talking just about the original, busted trade, not the subsequent suddenly-naked trades to close that we have to buy back.

I'd like to do this, too. What's a good algorithm for ignoring erroneous spikes in the quotes?

Would be nice to have an easier way of doing these, and to be able to specify the total credit/debit for all the legs. BTW, I tried to use Order->Transmit Page for the first time recently, and something weird happened. I set up the 2 order lines for a strangle, clicked, and... the call order...

I've tried online support twice, when my orders got stuck (unable to cancel). Never again. Both times I spent over 20 minutes waiting for some sort of positive reply, but I just got "one moment please" or "this may take a little while" repeatedly. It's as if there were one person trying to...

Funny thing about Datek - starting a few months ago, the email notifications (the ones that give details of the order, not the ones that say there's an electronic confirmation in your Inbox) began getting erratic. I now only get them for around 25% of my filled orders. The notifications about...