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I think the only help we get with IB problems is through IB contacts here on ET. Any other channel to IB for help or to point out a problem is hopeless and a wasted effort. IB's responses to my "trouble tickets" have shown that IB tech support did not adequately read the tickets before...

I have had similar experiences with bank drafts and open authorized payments. When I authorize these drafts, I plan on closing the account on which the authorization was made when I stop the service. It seems the only way to do business with some vendors.

Do you have a broker listed in the Quotetracker "Trading Window"? If so, you may want to try changing to one of your other brokers in this window or disable the broker in the QT "Trading Setup". Changing the broker fixed this problem for me.

Yes I was having the same problem with a conflict between TWS and Quotetracker. My pink outs occurred every 18 minutes, every day, all day. I figured out that the problem only occurred when both TWS and Quotetracker were running at the same time. I then figured out that the problem only occurred...

A ratio of 50/1 is very liberal and should be more than adequate for a trader not trying to spoof the two sided market action. Order entry should be for those wanting to enter an order to trade and not for the purpose of trying to only influence the movement of the price. For sure this rule will...

I used RealTick for 8 years and did not think I would ever want be without it until I tried Quotetracker this past spring. It took me about a week to figure out that I did not want to use RealTick even if it was free. QuoteTracker is better. I have never liked RealTick order entry platform, but...

Conflict between TWS and Quotetracker causing my "pinkouts": I have found a conflict between Quotetracker and IB's Trader Work Station (TWS) that is causing my "pinkouts" and loss of TWS connections that have been occurring for the past month. When my Ameritrade account is shown in the...

I found the flex statements to be easy enough to setup. I like them better than any previous format. It took me only one evening to setup, make my decision to use them and not look back.

Thank you for your post on the trigger of LIT orders. I was wrong in my above comments or maybe my in the past complaints to IB about this problem resulted in changes in the LIT orders. I just spent 2 hours entering many LIT orders in CHTT (Chattem, Inc.) and this is what I found: Twice the...

No, you are wrong!!!! I have hundreds of cases of this and I know of no time when the order triggered without a trade occurring at the trigger price. If I want to be sure my order will trigger, I have to take the time to setup a "conditional order" with the < or = and the > or =. If you have any...

Rich, I would think you have already looked at the list of "broker ratings" here on ET. The number of ratings for each of the brokers may be an indication of which brokers to read the ratings. I just now looked at the list and noticed there are not many with a number of ratings that exceed 30...

I am still getting "Pink-Outs" several times a day. When I look at my Jts file log.mon.txt I find warnings prior to some of the pink-outs that read like this: JTS-CCPPing-9: Warning: not received heartbeat at 50000 This event is followed by he TWS page returning to normal within 10 to 15...

Chewbacca: This may not effect you if you do not hold overnight positions, but MB Trading shows the profit and loss of positions for the current or last day only. For me that is a real negative. For smaller overnight account balances, MB has the advantage on interest paid. For large overnight...

I hope you provided IB with information on your discovery.

I can recommend JPR Capital for stocks. I have had an account with them for nine years. Commission is 0.005 per share with rebates for providing liquidity and a fee is charged for taking liquidity. They are a small firm with great customer service. They clear through Terra Nova. Terra Nova pays...

I have been using IB for eight years and have found IB to be the best of the best. However, IB, as with all brokers, does occasionally have a problem. How long did you use IB?

The bad thing about LIT orders is there must be a trade at the trigger price for the order to go active. Trading through the trigger price will not trigger the order. This has happened to me many times. I think IB should change the trigger method for LIT so the order will go active if the trade...

Thank you for asking: TWS 878.5 standalone Java 1.5.0_11 Windows 2000 SP4 Javaw.exe Normal priority

It for sure has not been resolved for me. I have been getting "pink-outs" and disconnects at a rate of about one every ten minuets all afternoon.

I am having a similar problem with TWS 878.5 running under Windows 2000. On an average of four times each hour TWS gets pink lines on the page for about 10 seconds, but otherwise looks normal. About once an hour all data fields freeze, go blank, and reload within about 10 seconds. A bit annoying...