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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

same here... :-( First time in about two years (and not due to ISP) :(

torosyososfx: Were YOU ready for the market to go back up? :cool: Sherlock

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

100% agreed. Been there, done that. Sherlock

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

: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

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...

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...