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ICE system problems, no ETA on reopening according to the help desk

IB - In the meantime, how about releasing Java code for a Booktrader in the API? If it has to be crippled for legal reasons, make the "no single click" module easily identifiable. Is there any open-source stuff out there?

I got the same response, so the mafia is trying to shake them down. Good luck fighting this bullshit, I stand behind you 100% as a customer. It's ironic that a firm that innovates and leads in getting low cost direct access for the small guy is being told to cripple its offerings by a bunch...

We don't know for sure if this has anything to do with litigation, but if you're paying money for a 3rd party application, who's to say it won't suffer the same fate along with your cash? If an open source public domain java app was made available (wink wink) that talks to the API, that may...

IB, please, please reconsider, this is asinine. If this is for liability reasons, make customers sign a waiver. I do thousands in commissions every month, 95% of which is single click scalping on Booktrader, and will be forced to take my business elsewhere if this is imposed. --- TWS...

Bob, IB's stock option cutoff is 4:30pm eastern as per their website, which is pretty standard for online retail brokers: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=deliveryExerciseActions The official cutoff for the clearing house which your broker calls on your behalf is 5:30pm, so...

Paging anyone with access to WebICE - There were several small trades busted last night on Jun10 WTI - can anyone with access to WebICE bulletins/alerts tell me exactly what time these trades were declared "under review" and then busted? Thanks

I was told they were "aware" of this over 3 weeks ago, started with the latest Java update so technically it's not their fault but I would have expected a fix by now.

WTF? Absolute nonsense, there is no excuse for a 60 minute delay. Shit happens, systems go down, but a broker has a fiduciary duty to adjust that trade if the market order was accepted with a proper time stamp. Meet halfway, delay it 5-10 minutes, do something. In my years of working for a...

Your use of a market order vs. marketable limit should have no bearing on execution time, and opportunity cost in missing a profitable fill is every bit as painful as what you experienced. Bitch, moan & get a price adjustment, close your account if it isn't fair. PS - I'm assuming your...

Still no concrete news from the wires, but something is obviously cooking. EURUSD traded high as 1.2870 on Oanda in early (thin) trading

Relax, the truth will come out. The essential information OP hasn't posted was what exactly were the options marked to (market price in account window) when the liquidation alert was issued? As I posted on another thread, IB in my experience does not mark options to the posted bid/ask...

Oh cut the caveat emptor bullshit already! First of all, you don't write IB's liquidation policy or engine, who are you to say what it's "supposed" to do. 80% of the options I trade are quoted no bid no offer at some point during the trading day, often hours at a time. This is routinely...

With all respect to OP if he was wronged - Any rational customer should immediately be on the phone with IB and raising bloody hell before wasting time posting on ET, even if it takes half an hour to get through. Did you speak to an IB rep? If so, what's their name and response?

In practice your broker will know sometime after 8pm on Friday, and it will post to your account before Sunday's 6pm open. Squeezing an extra tic or two on a short option over the weekend is pure gambling unless you're covered and know for sure you're getting assigned. ABC - Always be closing!

Story hit the wires at 6:05pm that the Repubs blocked the financial/derivatives reform bill. Looks like someone got bad info and went the wrong way seconds before that came out, oops.

Nope! I've been asking about this for ages, but they just tell you to put it in the useless features poll. The "non-guaranteed" combo works, but the indicative quote is outside the exchange market so you're getting an inferior execution 95% of the time.

Anyone know why the WTI curve is blowing out in April along with Brent trading at a $1 premium?

ZRA, I don't have a copy but the way I see it they eliminated the first tier which was up to 300 contracts. With the old unbundled once you hit 300, you saved 20 cents/side, now everyone starts at 2nd tier and you save 35 cents/side over the old "rack rate" Comes out to ~$100 a month savings...

50 pips on game changing news? I hope it rallies 500 more for a brain dead short, but I think the specs will call the bluff first, we just shuffled around bad debt.