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BTW, I called GFT and I directly informed them that I am posting this information. I was told that their telephone dealing has been available the entire time. If it is within their firm policy, I would love to see a response.... 12:02 AM EST and still counting

TradeStation - GFT feed is still down 11:53 AM EST - GFT "censored, we missed our hedge! we are losing size --- ughhh we have a technical problem, yeah that's it, a technical problem. ok we will make the problem last a long time so that it looks really serious, yeah that's it... Sound familiar?

TradeStation's spot currency data feed provided by GFT went down at approximately 10:36 AM EST on 060905 right in the middle of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony. As of 11:20 AM EST, the feed is still down with no ETA. RE GFT, not sure to what extent their electronic/telephone dealing...

Thanx! This information is excellent. I had spoken with multiple IB staff on the trading desk and on the TWS technical team and there was no mention of this automatically created audit file. ("Create Audit Trail" checked is the TWS default). I asked in for this information in several...

With IB, the Order ID associated with executed trades is available to the account holder on Trade Date (T) only. The other broker(s) I trade with post this field in the system and reports, it is always available. I have been told that IB does not keep the Order ID after a certain amount of...

As noted in Jack Schwager's interview with Bill Lipshutz in "New Market Wizards" regarding what percentage of currency trading done by large banks and investment banking firms is actual proprietary risk taking. Bill commented that most of the P&L in these firms is trading business related and...

There are several posts throughout Elite Trader discussing Interactive Brokers' TraderWorkstation (TWS) system reliability. With the premise that those trading currencies are among those who have IB's platform running for the most hours every day... Any comments on system reliability of...

My information is directly from other IB associates --- so to clarify Daily Blackout Period(s) If you can call in orders during the reset (I am assuming this is the TWS reset/shutdown time), can you have stops and limits placed during those times/call them in, etc? Regarding the closure...

IB IDEAL Pro Forex - IB has been making progress on their spot FX offering, however, the following are 2 adjustments that should be made for IDEAL Pro FX: 1. Daily Blackout Period(s) My understanding is that there is currently a shutdown time for the entire Trader WorkStation (TWS)...