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I strongly suggest that you upgrade your RAM to at least 1GB RAM for best TS performance. You might get hickups with 512 MB--it's well worth the investment. Chinook

I use them both and I have no conflict problems. By the way, I'm using IB's stand alone TWS. My PC is 2.4 GHz with 1GB RAM. Maybe, the other user had a PC with a much slower CPU and lower RAM. Chinook

IB went down again!!! Tradestation kind of slowed down too. Maybe there's an Internet problem somewhere.

iB back up here too but it came up with all the settings changed to default!

Me too! This is happening too often lately!

Pabst, Thanks for the explanation. It seems possible that timing of the terror threat, bounce from the index highs and new higher margins can actually create a "technical dip". Chinook

MichaelD, If Tradestation wants to be a direct competitor to IB as a broker for e-mini futures, your company should implement the following ASAP: 1) various order types such as OCA, bracket, trailing etc.. 2) order entry API so people can easily enter/exit/scale in/scale out of their...

Pabst, I'm just curious. Could you please explain why people would short the market because of higher futures margins? Thanks, Chinook

The problem is that my TWS looked and behaved "normal". The quotes were just far behind the market. There should be a component meltdown at IB. These native Globex stops are a blessing!!!! I would have lost my mind by now without them! Chinook

Def, Can you please report this to your HQ so they troubleshoot what went wrong. Thanks, Chinook

Has anyone noticed IB NQ/ES delays around 11am EST? I was comparing it to Tradesation and IB had a mega delay of about 45-50 seconds!!!! This is the first time I've seen this much delay in a year. Chinook

I couldn't believe how fast NQ was going between 1443 and 1435! Just as I thought I figured out what was going on today!!!! Was this a scheduled time for Dell's earnings? They found a great time of day to release their numbers!

I have my brokerage account with IB and I use TS as my charting platform. TS has been continuously improving their platform in terms of stability and datafeed. I was unhappy about TS datafeed earlier this year but it has improved quite a bit now by direct CME feed and enhancements to their...

I've been trading e-minis with IB for about a year now. The only problem I had was TWS disconnecting on rare occasions. I can't imagine a more robust platform than IB's. I contacted their customer service several times and I was overall satisfied with their answers and attitude. Although, once...

I know exactly what you're talking about. I have the same problem although it's getting much better. I log each trade so I can go back and show myself if I violated my own rules. It's helping but it's a slow and painful process. It came to such a point that I feel like my mind is split...

I currently have IB as my broker but I use Tradestation as a charting platform. TS just introduced the matrix, market profile/market depth/order entry tool. This'll be similar to using TWS with the button trader. However, TS has still problems when volume picks up. In that case, I do "tape...

TS was pretty much like a beached whale for me after 3:30 pm EST. Most of the time charts were frozen but T&S kept working fine. This is due to the painting/drawing bug. Luckily, I have my account with IB!! Chinook Edit: Well IB was also down for about 3-4 minutes during this time. But I...

Yes I had the freeze too!!! But I almost regularly have it everday couple of times! Chinook

I also observed frozen quotes for a couple of times lately. Yesterday, IB went down and became "pink" but came back within 20-30 seconds. Chinook

Volatility (Intraday Range) has its own cycles too. Indeed, we are in a multi-year low volatility area. Actually, predicting volatility is one of the hottest subjects for the quants these days. Last year, I got obsessed with this subject and tried to implement various volatility prediction...