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I like MBT for its simple light weight UI for stocks & options, with decent routing (both auto and directed). But with my first need to buy outside the US, explored IB and am now slowly migrating to IB, keeping MBT as a backup. IB's UI is actually very efficient after 5 mins of using it. In...

IB does support odd lots just fine. Depending on the liquidity of the issue, fills range anywhere from fast and decent to not so fast and just "OK." I recall seeing somewhere that venues which charge an extra fee for odd lots will be excluded -- I think this is just Arca. NYSE or Amex...

The same time-dependent security device being used to authenticated funds transfers over 100k will shortly become an opt in feature for TWS login as I understand it.

This seems right. IB's protections against withdrawals are reasonable and within market best practices IMHO. (Also the RSA gadget required for > 100k.) Another risk might be an intruder trading a security at adverse prices with the intruder's other account elsewhere -- I'd imagine this...

My experience is the same on load time, around 30-45secs. It's not bad when you're sitting at desk and load at start of day, but, if you're at airport or in a taxi between meetings wanting to drop in via EVDO card, it does seem to take a while. I don't think it's that big a deal all things...

I am surprised by all the negativism. I'll stick my neck out and express my support. Despite admittedly pretty bad and slow service (I have a ticket open about an ACAT for over a day now without a response), and despite my one bug beef of not being able to route premarket ArcaEdge OTCBB...

I don't notice much of a speed difference with 1.6 except upon initial loading of a function (probably bec the .jars need to be re-compiled from byte code into more optimized code for 1.6 whereas this was done a while ago for 1.5 in my cache). But I did notice two UI glitches: 1. In the...

However note that Oanda calculates interest continuously so positions not held overnight also incur costs if the spread is negative. (I guess if you're short yen, this may work to your advantage.) Though bec Oanda is a deal desk model, that distinction is the more important one to consider...

That was my reaction at first too but upon further research and with help from several others on this forum, I now agree that IB seems to be better than market standard for retail spot forex in this area. But my initial disgruntlement turned to joyous embrace as I've actually had difficulty...

100 data line limit remains: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/marketData.php """ All customers receive 100 concurrent lines of real-time market data (which can be displayed in TWS or via the API). After the first month of trading, high-volume traders may receive...

Now that the market is open, I tried ArcaEdge routing again -- it immediately shows up in the ArcaBook. So my presumption is that pre market orders on ArcaEdge are still not really working despite showing Green as my tests pre market did not show up in the ArcaBook. I guess I was too...

Well, yesterday (Thu) in the pre market, IB showed my order as working on ArcaEdge with a Smart routed order. Today (Fri), Smart routed order is shown as working at Knight. I didn't know Knight will fill pre-market, but I assume that must be the case. And a manually routed ArcaEdge shows...

I've been using 871 when it was still beta on/off (alternating with 870) for the past wk w/o any problems. I do note that upgrading from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6 seems to have introduced some general sluggishness -- perhaps the cache needs to be rebuilt. Can't be sure yet.

I am now convinced either it's a bug in IB or there must be something else I need to do to make my orders visible pre-market. Because in my test security CAMH, I see there is now a single entry in the ArcaBook on the other side of the market at ArcaEdge. See the screenshot at 9:26AM...

I believe also API initiated directed (not smart routed) equity orders...

Trading on the TSX (Toronto) easily was the original reason I signed up for IB. It works great -- much better than my prior broker in this area. On the margin requirement -- I wonder if you can pre-convert and hold CAD ahead of the trade? Can't say as I always open margin account. On the...

For everyone's info, the response I got from IB CS is that the price/volume info on IB only reflects the markets on which IB participates.

I am still quite confused about ArcaEdge and pre-market orders. Unfortunately this morning, I don't have a real stock in mind to test (that is, one I know with activity and is reflecting active quotes in the ArcaBook -- yesterday I had such a candidate.) So, I picked a random OTCBB stock I...

At the time of my test, the ArcaBook as shown on www.arcavision.com did have at least one entry on either side of the market. I used the arcavision site as the reference bec Market Depth gives me permission denied for ArcaEdge Stk/Deep/OTCBB (which I was told is bec IB won't do depth for...

Got it. Wonderful. And just to be doubly-certain that there aren't really two ArcaEdge routing issues: My test orders which failed to show on ArcaEdge pre-market were clearly liquidity adding (buys way below market) and not liquidty taking. Thx.