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As I said above (if you bothered to actually read the post before weighing in), I did speak to our broker about our probem before posting here. I came here to see if other people were affected, and thought that was a perfectly reasonable thing to do. If people's questions annoy you so...

We spoke to IB. They admitted the failure. Don't guess when you don't know.

Hi, I'm happy to be more specific. It may be just that you guys weren't affected (which is interesting - why us?) or it may just be that you don't need access to the very start of the market and they resolved their problems early enough in the day not to bother you. Our problems were with...

We couldn't log in before market or at open. Apparently they were having technical problems with their login servers. Cost us a fair bit of money (according to our paper trades using same algorithm). Were we the only ones affected? I thought I would see comment here. Regards, Nello

Hi, just a short note for anyone who may encounter this thread in future. Yes, release 903 of TWS appears to have finally fixed this problem by creating the API tab when your client connects to TWS rather than on opening the first position. For those thinking of upgrading to version 903, be...

Well, it looks like version 903 of TWS is finally out - they appear to have skipped version 902 entirely, possibly because of the API problems described copiously in this thread. A brief perusal of the release notes...

Hi Folks, In the absence of an actual release 902 from IB to resolve this problem, I have been experimenting with viable workarounds to raise the API window before my first trade is performed. I'm sure you all have your own perfectly good versions of this by now, but in the spirit of...

Um, I'm not sure... are you a troll or a fanboy? Either way, you have added precisely zero to this discussion. We stay with them because the good outweighs the bad for now. As anyone with half a brain would understand. On the other hand, they do have real problems with both their...

Folks, I just discovered something that is just, plain, unbelievable. If you remember, the detailed response I got from IB about this issue included these words of wisdom: Well, I've just been to the IB site to do my upgrade: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tws , as I found...

The final upshot (IMHO) is that regardless of the intricacies of Swing - and I do agree with your comments - it is amazing that anyone could have seriously created a trading API where any UI problem can prevent trades from being processed. Obviously, the API is a tacked-on afterthought to a...

Point taken. I've been an IB customer for about 5 years now, and this is the first time I've aired their dirty linen in public. Basically, my frustration levels have reached an all-time high with this one.

Hi Folks, I have had a response from IB - again after much pushing - which (as promised) I am publishing here. So what does this tell us? Point #1 pretty much explicitly states that they still think that no functionality has been affected by this problem, which is worrying to say the least...

Firstly, I could not agree more with the frustration others in this thread have expressed regarding IB's glacial response to bugs of this kind. We have criticized them directly on numerous occasions for their fixation with developing still more bells and whistles in their UI rather than...

Just for the record, this is not the case. Our code has used this setting for months to no avail.

We have had the same problem for months, and have been working with IB Professional Support to try and get it rectified. I can tell you that it definitely does NOT have anything to do with long-held TWS sessions. The IB guy who suggested this is just jerking you around, but that is nothing...