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You are right Def. IB is the best and I agree it is a "no Brainer". With respect to the interest paid, one would have to look long and hard to find a brokerage firm that pays interest on cash deposits from short sales and has such a narrow spread between interest paid on cash balances and the...

I went back and checked my execution files and the last day I had a order filled via PRIMEX was on January 24. I hope IB made a good decision for now or at least until all the issues are fully investigated and/or resolved. IB should give their customers a good explanation of why PRIMEX is not a...

Def: I long since tried the big scale small scale scroll settings and neither come close to the spool feature of the old TWS before the JAVA based TWS. Catoosa

Ddefina: The JAVA based TWS will get the changes made but is so slooooow that the market has often moved before you can get your changes made to your order line. This is particularly the case for changing the share quantity. Say you click on the offer and your default order size pulls up 1000...

Def: Today, I went back and used the old TWS version 2000. 04. 18 in order to take advantage of the right mouse click method of changing the price or share quantity on the drop down order line (right click on the top or bottom of the number you want to change and the number will spool up or...

Stock777 and qwiktrade: Thank you for your help with the information on "Tradelog" and the marking of short sale transaction. I looked at my Schedule D printouts and my software does not identify short sales on a Schedule D and I agree it is not a IRS requirement. Catoosa

Def: As pointed out in the post by Stock777 the IRS does not require the "marking" of short sale transactions on Schedule D. So, I stand correcting on the IRS requirements. The problem I am having with the lack IB marking of "short sales" and "buys to cover short sales" is specific to the...

Def: Getting back to you on the "marking of short sales", The IRS reporting requires "buys", "sells", "short sales", and "buys to cover short sales" be identified as such on the IRS "Schedule D" for capital gains tax reporting. Accounting software programs require the same identification...

Def: Why does IB not identify short sales in the TWS "Executions Window"? I have to sit here every day and manually write down all of my transactions in order to be able to identify at the end of the day the short sales. Catoosa

hepex1: I think getting good customer support is a problem with most brokerage firms in this time of manpower cut backs, or for that matter it is a problem most times. I sympathize with your frustrations and hope I can get IB's help when I need it. With all the good things about IB, I am sure...

Dlincke: I read your response on 1/27/02 to my Post and what I thought I was trying to say is exactly what you said. I agree 100% with your way of explaining the way we think IB is or should be using PRIMEX and the potential for time delays. Thanks for the response and comments. Catoosa

If IB is a "Crowd participant" who is a registered user of the "PRIMEX Workstation Watch List" to view the auctions of the "market orders" in a security, and IB is not using "Indications" and is using only "Real-Time Responses" limit orders to hit the PRIMEX displayed "market orders", I do not...

"dlincke", that was a great post! I think most of us were with IB when those changes were made with respect to ARCA and REDI but we did not have "Elite Trader" to air it all out. Elite Trader is a real asset for IB users. IB may have very good reasons for the crippling changes they made to our...

I have had fills today via PRIMEX on INTC and MSFT. Based on what I am hearing, it looks like PRIMEX was designed by "market makers" for "market makers" and that means the deck would be stacked in their favor. It would seem SUERESOES is the best way to deal with the MMs. Catoosa

I can see where no one in their right mind would want to send a market order to PRIMEX based on Primex's own description of how market orders are handled within their system. It would seem to me that you could count on getting the shaft on a market order. However, for me the jury is still out on...

I downloaded the latest TWS update and all of the colors, column headings, and column widths were changed on my TWS page layout. It took me an hour or more to get my page layout back the way I had it prior to the download. This has happened on several of the TWS updates. You would think IB would...

I downloaded the latest TWS and was disappointed in the "Rapid Order Entry Window". What a waste of screen space. All of the large icons and Rapid Order Entry Window take up 1/3 of the screen height and it appears on all pages! I found I could enter an order almost as fast by entering a new...

No problems here on PRIMEX. I use IB Best execution most of the time and have several fills each day via PRIMEX. All fill prices are as I would expect. All these fills are on NASDAQ stocks. I looked on IB and did not see PRIMEX as a order routing choice on any of the NYSE listed stocks I...

Hi Def, Thank you for responding to my concerns and filling me in on the TWS window resizing. I have not used the online version since the stand alone TWS version came out and I did not think about testing the online version prior to down loading new TWS revisions. Catoosa

Kicking, I have a question to your post above. Is it true that the latest upgrade of the TWS does not allow the user to resize the TWS window? I sure hope this is not the case. I will never upgrade again if this is the case. Being able to resize the TWS window is a must to have several windows...