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What type of violation is this?

Very true syndrom, but I don't think that necessarily proves that they know "who you are" (e.g. someone who is trying to close out a trade) and were after you.

I think specialists do much more manipulation than that.

What is "high closing"?

One of the ET members (Wilburbear), in a posting several months ago, said that unless contested at the SEC level, then at the time penny increments for options are implemented it may also mean that retail customers lose priority in line for options. Can anyone share where we stand with this...

1. IB has an Excel-type worksheet where you can jump from stock to stock, and order to order. Does Genesis enable this multi-trading feature as well? 2. In fast markets, it can be very important to quickly cancel or quickly place an order; how would you describe the speed difference between...

To do such a quantity would require highly sophisticated programming. I would imagine the program categorizes hundreds or thousands of different scenarios where statistics show traders are vulnerable and tend to lose money, and they can quickly make the necessary keystrokes one after the other...

This just came from IB email: "To make the system more attractive, professional liquidity providers such as IB’s affiliate Timber Hill (one of the largest U.S. options market makers) and others will be able to post penny indications in the system for you to trade against, and will also have...

Placed about 10 orders today with IB penny option pricing in the last half hour with some active options. They were all routed to BOX. Although BOX has price improvement, it seems to me that a normal order routed via ISE will get better fills for overnight orders (where it's my...

Do you have the same experience with "replacements" of orders as opposed to simple cancellations? For example, instead of cancelling the order to buy at $10.00, replacing the order to instead buy at $9.50?

It's clear to me that a specialist/MM are able to identify the order comes from a retail trader. It also seems to me they know which broker is sending them the order. But are they also to identify that the same customer trying to e.g. "sell-to-close" is the one who earlier on "bought-to-open"...

I think IB missed my other question: Does this market share issue mean only IB themselves, or also includes brokers who send order flow to IB?

Is this the page you are referring to? https://www.interactivebrokers.com/Universal/servlet/AccountAccess.Login;jsessionid=D624141DCC14C56E7F08C2CF0061F5E7

When this feature is offered by the all brokers in January, will IB's current advantage become moot?

Does this include brokers who send their order flow thru IB?

Agreed. Moderator, Please take out "IB" from the title of the thread.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Bitstream, Why do you trade NYSE given these problems?

No word yet from IB. I hope I'm not getting the silence treatment. To bust a trade must be acted on relatively quickly.

Are you able to get something busted if the lag time is that much?

Shocking stuff. In checking the audit trail, the gap of time between the request and "Place order" and "Acknowledged" is zero to one second, throughout the report (a long report), say an average of 1/2 second. Suddenly, this one, the biggest of them all, was not acknowledged even two seconds...