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    Retail routing to IEX exchange

    The fix is implemented. We will lower the per share directed API fee to 0.75c/share. We prefer our clients utilizing the Smart Routing, because they receive frequent price improvement and a dark pool rebate of 0.1c/share or higher. Please look at your daily statements and you should be able...
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    Retail routing to IEX exchange

    The stop orders are just an oversight. It is getting fixed.
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    Retail routing to IEX exchange

    We will not route your non marketable orders to IEX. For now IEX is a dark pool w/ small volume. Your orders would thus not be visible and would be exposed to only a small percentage of nation wide marketable orders.
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    IB algo for large orders

    IB has numerous dark pools in its Smart Routing.
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    ThinkorSwim vs IB's TWS

    Yes, I confirm.
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    ThinkorSwim vs IB's TWS

    What you describe is is not the way IB routing works. Smart router routes both marketable and non marketable orders immediately and directly to the exchanges.
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    IB - NYMEX Order routing problem 11/6

    The fix has been released.
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    Probability Lab

    We'll do that.
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    IB using "rounding" to screw clients with borrow fees

    This is the way the SBL (Stock Borrow Loan) business is conducted on the street. We find a lender of the shares for you - this is typically an SBL desk at one of the banks, or broker-dealers. The borrow fee we pay them is computed in the same way as we charge you. The stock price is rounded UP...
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    Unofficial TWS bug thread

    The news feeds provided by selected providers are now available via API. The monthly subscription fees vary depending on the provider. You can activate your API news feed on the Account Management site.
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    IB's option commission raised?

    You get the rebate irrespective of whether you are alone at the NBBO.
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    IB's option commission raised?

    At IB what you pay for execution consists of 3 parts: - commission due to IB - exchange fee or rebate - regulatory fee You submitted your liquidity taking order at the time when ARCA was the only exchange at the NBBO. ARCA charges 82cents per contract for taking liquidity (in that option...
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    IB's Option Trader

    The feature is now available in the Beta release. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/releaseNotes/Betanotes2.php
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    TWS - 5yr limit for chart data eliminated

    What locks up, how? Would you please PM?
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    IB's Option Trader

    We have just finished the coding and are now testing. We have several sources of requests and suggestions, as well as our own agenda. There are limited number of projects we can work on at the same time.
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    IB trading platform is frozen again this morning

    The A/D orders are managed from the TWS. That will be the case for the foreseeable future. We were planning to move the algorithm to the backend at one point, but we changed our mind.
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    IB - changing default for smart to go to ISLD?

    You need to switch to cost+ (aka unbundled) commission schedule, and you will get those options. Your other option direct routing.
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    IB - changing default for smart to go to ISLD?

    Try setting the smart routing preference to: "highest volume exchange with rebate".
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    IB Cancel Fee on Single Option

    Not per leg, not per contract. Per cancellation event. By combination I mean an order with more than one leg that can be represented by an exchange as a native order. My guess is that there is significantly less traffic in the combinations and hence the exchange is not worried about their...
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    Interactive Brokers Market Capping Question

    It is. The limits in the US for non-pinks and non-bbs are very wide; you should not be running into them. Can you PM me a recent case?
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