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    Ib Tws Down

    OK, then I read something different in your post. Sorry. It is immaterial why this happened and who is to blame. That does not help your performance / account. It is important to figure out how you can minimise the impact next time something like this happens. I am definitely gone this...
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    Ib Tws Down

    Mokwit From your posting I get the impression that you feel that I implied that IB's contingency plans are inadequate etc. That was not the essence of my posting and I apologize that I was not more clear. It is my opinion that the trader themselves are to blame because it looks like the...
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    Ib Tws Down

    Well DTK, if there is one thing that history tells us is that man does not learn from history. "This time it is different" yeah right. Although I do commiserate with all involved here, both traders and IB, I think that from all the postings here one can sense panic, frustration and other...
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    Ib Tws Down

    For a long time I have had the believe that things are becoming too complex in TWS. It looks like it has become the proverbial house build of cards, which does not take a lot to come crumbling (or tumbling) down. Am remembering the expression of Roald Amundson: Victory awaits those who have...
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    Ib Tws Down

    But you'll be missing part of the US afternoon trading session where some predictable moves are.... :-( Sherlock
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    Ib Tws Down

    market data Well looks like I better take the day (ehhh evening / night, am in New Zealand) off again. Better have and enjoy an evening out, have dinner and go to the cinema. Until next trading session guys. Shame about the moves in the Euro-USD, am missing a large part of that...
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    Ib Tws Down

    Am calling it a day. Hope things will be better tomorrow. Sherlock
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    Ib Tws Down

    same here... :-( First time in about two years (and not due to ISP) :(
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    Are you ready for a new LOW in Euro below 1.18?

    torosyososfx: Were YOU ready for the market to go back up? :cool: Sherlock
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    Increased lack of correlation between big-cap indices and small-cap indices

    Charles Dow: Dow theory - when the indexes "step in line" then trend is "confirmed". (= business as usual and all is well). in other words: When they are out of sync: Better watch out. Sherlock
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    Does anyone have experience with Black Boxes?

    100% agreed. Been there, done that. Sherlock
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    New IB Features

    Another item to consider is that for us traders in Asia Pacific there is internet delay. I have measured up to two seconds delay so 0.5 second faster or slower with IB does not worry me. In fact at one stage I did trade a strategy based on 2 minute bars (position trading intraday) and after...
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    New IB Features

    If I have given the impression of whining then I apologize. I am a happy customer but am always looking to improve the stability of my trading environment. Having to download these large TWS upgrades on a 19.8K line is no fun, can do without that. Hence the suggestion to seperate the "bare...
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    New IB Features

    I totally agree with this. I did suggest in another thread to split TWS into a "bare bones" TWS and then have "add-on modules" for those who want to have the fancy stuff. That can then function through the API. There is no need (IMHO) to have it all integrated. The way I look at it: Having...
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    Tell us how you rate IB's connection/HK

    Mokwit & IB just thinking out aloud here. I have seen on ET somewhere a message posted about a router that is "fail-safe" which means that if one network connection goes down your connection switches over automatically to another one. (you are connected to both at the same time and your...
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    Tell us how you rate IB's connection/HK

    Kiwi Trader, Noticed that you have 19 "hops". In the past it was said that anything over 17 starts to become of dubious reliability. A previous ISP of mine had around 23 "hops" and I suffered a lot of dropouts. So I changed ISP. Sherlock
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    Tell us how you rate IB's connection/HK

    Most of the problems that I experience is with Telecom New Zealand doing "maintenance" and downing a server. This leads to lost connectivity (confirmed by tracert). I then dial in through another service provider that is not utilising Telecom's broadband network and everything is fine...
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    Are you ready for a new LOW in Euro below 1.18?

    :confused: Are you ready for the Euro going back up to 1.2619? Moral: Don't make predictions, just follow your system. Predictions will land you in the poorhouse. :cool: Sherlock
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    Do you have a EDGE over the market?

    Rubbish too. When a tiger gets hungry he goes looking for some yum-yum food. When he sees a nice herd of yum-yum he will select his prey. And then chase that prey back and forth until it is yum-yum time. If he is chasing and then decides to chase another prey, and then another prey no yum-yum...
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    Do you have a EDGE over the market?

    Rubbish. There are more ways than one to skin a cat. Sherlock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tao te Ching, tetragram 56: Those who know do not speak Those who speak do not know Block the passages Close the door Blunt the sharpness Untie the tangles Harmonize with the brightness...
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