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I have been comparing IB quotes to RealTick for more than 3 years, even back before there was TWS. I do not know what RealTick does different from IB; But, the ECN quotes show up correct on RealTick Level 2 window at the same times that IB has these same ECN quotes all screwed up. Now RealTick...

It never fails: When there is breaking news and the market trade volume takes off, IB's equity quotes get all screwed up and are unusable. I have been using IB for more than 3 years and this problem has never been corrected. IB will blame it on ARCA or another ECN quotes for screwing up their...

If that is the case, why the fee for order modification or change? Catoosa

Madgenius, Thank you for your input which is helpful in understanding the other side. The exchanges need to do something that solves the problems with the excess cancellations by the computerized trading, if that is the root cause, and not put cancellation fees on all buyers and sellers. That...

Individual traders provide liquidity as do market makers; So, the only reason for the cancellation fee is to put individual traders at a disadvantage. If individual traders could provide enough liquidity, there would be no need for market makers. The fees make it more expensive for all buyers...

There is not any need to be paying for "Level 2" with RealTick. It stops working several times a day. What makes it so bad is that by the time you figure out it is not updating, you have failed to do what ever you needed to do with the trade. It would be better to not watch the "Level 2" window...

I tried again and finally was able to logon. Catoosa

I am not able to logon to RealTick this evening. Anyone else having the same problem this evening? Catoosa

Mirroring would for sure be of use in a server that you do not want to shut down. If one hard drive fails, the system will fall back to the mirror image; But, what happens if you get file corruption, disk write errors, or a virus on the "C" and your mirror drive then has the same problems on it...

I buy full tower cases to build my computers so I will have plenty of room to place the removable hard drive frames so they are not directly opposite the power supply. I have found the magnetic fields of the power supply can cause operating system crashes and "The Blue Screen of Death" if the...

I use WD hard drives and like the "Data Lifeguard" utility that is a free download from the Western Digital web site. I have two removable hard drive bays for my primary "C" drive and backup drive. When I want to make an exact copy of my "C" drive, I slip in one of my three backup hard drives...

When I log on to RT, if things do not load real fast or if I detect any slowness in the charts loading when I enter a different symbol, I log off and keep logging on until I get a server that is working properly. A little inconvenience, but not too bad. Catoosa

I save my main TWS page under a different name so you can easily go back to it when this happens. The problem I am having is TWS does not seem to remember the column width settings of my "executions page" for more than about 3 to 5 days. Every so many days the column widths of the executions...

I buy full tower cases to build my computers so I will have plenty of room to place the removable hard drive frames so they are not directly opposite the power supply. I have found the magnetic fields of the power supply can cause operating system crashes and "The Blue Screen of Death" on bootup...

I do not generally use RealTick to place orders as there is a lot better order entry systems; However, when it comes to charting and tables, I have 8 of my monitors dedicated to RealTick and it works great and I would not trade without this information. If there is other equal software at a...

I use WD hard drives and like the "Data Lifeguard" utility that is a free download from the Western Digital web site. I have removable hard drive bays for my primary "C" drive and backup drive. When I want to make an exact copy of my "C" drive, I slip in one of my three backup hard drives, that...

In the last 3 years that I have sat here watching IB quotes and RealTick quotes side by side, I must say IB quotes work great for the most part until news comes out affecting a stock I am trading and then I better be looking at the RealTick quote feed. But, even at those rare times, IB is still...

Maxpi: I hope your forecast is better than my doomsday forecast. My forecast even depresses me. Catoosa

I have been trading with IB and RealTick side by side for 3 years and at times in the past IB quote would lag so far behind the quote shown on RealTick for a fast moving stock that there was no way I could trade the stock if IB quotes were all I had. However, IB's quote servers were separate...

I often get a price improvement from IB TMBR, so I cannot complain about TMBR. I also some times see better price on RealTick due to IB showing only the quotes based on the markets IB covers which in some cases is not the best price for the entire market. That means I may be looking at a better...