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Thanks for your information. But some suggested that the incident on last Friday would be avoided by upgrading to the latest version. If what the conclusion of your testing is correct, IB may have wasted a lot of time and money to do a good job on unnecessary backward compatibility.

Thanks for the education. The goal of this thread is to report the problems and urge IB to fix them regardless caused by bad hops or not. From what I see, the specific massive problems of last Friday morning was not hops related. PLEASE DO NOT SPECULATE ON PROBLEM REPORT FROM YOUR...

When will TWS servers detect client version and reject old versions after important protocol changes? When will this be implemented? It just does not get how to communicate. Let me tell you simply what to do. Plan and track you the goddamn protocol and internal changes. In advance, send bulletin...

There are always jerks running around to reply to a report of IB problems. "Nah, it aint' happen to me". "Myins perfect". "Whadya talking about". Like woman. Who said everyone will have the same problem? It is just not the nature of the computer problems. Especially there are so many versions of...

In a few days, we will observe the one year Anniversary of option cancellation fee. To remind you, it was a year ago when IB started to charge its customers an outrageous fee for merely canceling their submitted orders. One years later, how this fee has changed your life of trading? We want to...

How will daylight saving hours affect your trading and habits? Are you ready?

What do you think is the greatest horror in the marketplace of this country?

My friend told me pass on this information. For default market is ISE/BOX in TWS. SUNW. For default market is CBOE/PHLX in TWS XYZ. Avoid XYZ!!!!

Cannot believe ET'ers keep this quiet all this time. Patience is running out.

Many many times. Cannot take profit, stop loss, not quotes or even wrong quotes. All settings and data are gone. Cannot do nothing.

TWS is a mess lately. This connection may have been compromised and connect to a middle man. Who knows.

whady mean? It's hairy. It's pain in the ass.

TWS keeps showing mystic last login which I don't know where it comes from. What's wrong. I am worried. Also I usually cannot login until several times later. What happens. I am worried.

Use either a combo of SQL/Java/C# or a combo of Text/awk/C. Perhaps Excel is okey. But html/word stuff is definitely junk for storing data. It is a mistake that some brokers only provide data and report in html and word. Excel data is also inconvient and expensive to access from automated...

Heard that Indexes are calculated more or less incorrectly sometimes nowadays, but purposely screwed. Is it true? So is financial future trading over done?

I am a hardcore Godfather fan. I love the novel, the moveis, and admire the Godfather. I wish I had all of Godfather's personality and ability. But I see so few Godfather in modern financial trading domain. Godfather loves and takes care of his family. Godfather never forgets to avenge...

What really is your buiness? Are you one of "they"? Does your wife light a candle for what you do in the business? Do you light a candle of yourself?

Which HD models have more than one set of read/write heads, like dual or even quadric? Manufacturers are increasing rotation speed but how about just add extra heads?

Goddamn it, this is the great depression i ever witnessed in my life. This country is toilets.

Why people keep saying that doing this or that will make it easier to learn something? How do you know by not doing they suggest will be more difficult? How do you measure how much it is in fact easier or difficult? How do you know you save time in learning? Is it realistic or just a bunch of...