Sterling isn't always top notch, but worse than prosper pro ? LOL, come on, prosper pro is way way WAY worse.
Having traded several years on both platforms, I can say that only 2 or 3 times I had a moment that STerling didnt reflect my position correctly. This happened almost an infinite amount of times on prosper pro ( I remember having to call the ecn's myself to get fill reports, almost daily).
Worst thing that ever happened on Prosper pro:
* One day corbita exchanged the buy/sell buttons, this still is the biggest losing day in swift history as i know of
* It had issues with orders bigger than 100,000 lots, fills would not report correctly. I remember that my blotter showed being flat on RBAK, just before close, then all of a sudden, a 1,300,000 shares short position popped into my blotter, 5 minutes after close. Of course the market was gone so i had to go overnight.
* I remember how we had a period of months where orders would irradically have 5-10 seconds delays
* GBOL !!!! AAAAAAARGH. That term was being screamed through our office almost daily. Connection lost, nothing you could do but just sit there and watch your trades go against you.
* One day a trader found out that by kicking his PC (physically) he could crash the whole company !! Seriously, not only our office but swift as a whole. Can you believe that ?
Basically the main problem with prosper pro is that it's one big patch. Did you know for example that internally, Problem Pro still uses fractions (the older traders will know that before decimals, the markets used fractions). So, as of today, prosperpro still uses fractions: it converts the decimal quotes it gets from the markets to fractions, transports the fractional quotes to the users, where the front end again calculate the decimal equivalent before sending it to your L2 screen. THAT is exactly what is wrong with prosperpro. They keep patching and patching and patching. They should just dump the whole thing and create something from start.
