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I got an answer from CS: """ Intermarket combo's have been suspended due to market volatility and slowing quotes resulting in an unacceptable number of failed legs. No details are available regarding how long this will be in effect. Traders may see question marks or no quote data for spreads...

Is anyone else having trouble creating spread combos (calendar or diagonal in my case) in OptionsTrader today? When I create one, I don't get bid/ask/size -- with either the latest TWS or the latest TWS Beta. And if I click on the ask to place an order, it opens the full order ticket...

yea, that's the hard stuff... when it becomes a straddle, etc. I'll refer you to: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf starting at page 56 on options, then straddles....

The opposite -- That is never the case that I can think of.

No, as you realize normal cap gains/losses on options.... unless you were assigned an exercise in which case you adjust your basis on the underlying... and unless it's a straddle, which would be too complex to explain the various permutations here.

Just came back -- probably a total of 8 or so mins of outage. Not as bad as the "big one" back in Dec!

Down for me as well. For probably 6 or 7 mins now. It's interesting that many of the members posting to this thread are different from the last time there was an outage.

Interesting tidbit on today's Q4 conf call. TP reiterated that market making is absolutely isolated from brokerage -- "we do not trade with our customers." I had known this to be true on the options side (based on regulatory requirements) but never investigated it on the equities side (those...

Wow -- I seem to run into every settings problem imaginable but I escaped this one!

Maybe your settings file became corrupt? Try restoring an older settings file.

You can ask on their next quarterly conference call.... I am never free to catch them live or I would do it.

Maybe everyone in the world trades on IB. :cool:

Maybe this is a scheme to see how many ET users are actual customers.... :D This is the first real continued outage (> 10 mins) I've experienced since becoming a customer in 4/2007. Experienced bugs and momentary hiccups but a first for me.

Same problem in Boston. SSL gets socket connection error. Non SSL gets pass PW auth but doens't get to the point of the challenge.

This is true in Verizon's case. I've been mindful of it so I avoid getting, for example, streaming CNBC Plus video.... (though I've done audio only for a few hours here and there w/o getting close to the limit). The software lets you monitor your bw usage.

OK, I am up and running again with 880.4 and most of my 879.9 settings. Through a meticulous process of manually merging tws.xml files, I've concluded that: - The incompatibility is in the WindowConfiguration settings. - In particular, the following WindowConfigurations in my 879.9 settings...

Just as an update -- after about 45 mins of manual merging of tws.xml files, I think I've isolated the problem to some settings I had for ClickTrader|0 and ClickTrader|1 (which I assume are button trader). Of course, as luck would have it, the server shutdown started -- but I will post an...

OK, I guess I am in the minority so will own up to recreating my settings manually either this Sunday or next Sunday. Sigh.

Thanks -- unfortunately it IS a settings confict with 880.2/880.4 issue. If I start from a zero state (i.e., move my settings out of the way, get the help window, etc.), it works fine.... then if I go to File > Restore Settings, it will hang on restore. I've tried a lot of different...

Sigh -- the official suggestion from CS is to delete my settings and start over. This is 100% reproducible for my settings file and I am disheartened that someone at IB can't just reproduce it and fix it. Strange thing -- I pulled a 2 month old settings file from backup and it behaves the...