IB Alternative Choices?

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DonKee

IB has become unstable and unreliable for trading on numerous occasions over the past 4 weeks.

What is the best alternative for trading e minis?

Thanks
 
I use IB almost exclusively for trading and pay a couple of grand a month in commissions (gladly so I might add) but in light of technical issues we are facing I'm going to look seriously at Velocity Futures and even direct access to T_T platform.

IB, can you see this? Unhappy customers = less business!!
 
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IB, can you see this? Unhappy customers = less business!!
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Absolutely!!!!! I'm here to trade. Not to deal with this crap.
 
Quote from DonKee:

IB has become unstable and unreliable for trading on numerous occasions over the past 4 weeks.

What is the best alternative for trading e minis?

Thanks
More...

How do you connect to IB?

Leased line or via the internet?
i.e is this a connectivity or local software problem.
 
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How do you connect to IB?

Leased line or via the internet?
i.e is this a connectivity or local software problem.
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It's an IB problem.

Anyone using tradestation for e-minis?

Feedback welcome.

Thanks.
 
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How do you connect to IB?

Leased line or via the internet?
i.e is this a connectivity or local software problem.
More...
Yes it's an IB problem. illiquid is also using RealTick and says it was just fine.
 
Quote from DonKee:

It's an IB problem.

Anyone using tradestation for e-minis?

Feedback welcome.

Thanks.
More...

I haven't noticed any instability problems and am running it pretty much 24 hours a day.

It does have a nasty habit of disconnecting when used over the internet and IB needs to look at improving internet reliability and the ability to support multiple ISPs for redundancy.
 
Agree: Unhappy customers = less business.

Today is extremely bad. Just now there was a gap of 1.5 minutes between two ticks. Next print was for 1000 contracts... at a price 9 ticks higher than the previous.

IB, I would frankly expect you to send us customers (valued such?) a private mail explaining what the problems are and how you are working on fixing them etc. That is, of course, if you do care about keeping your customers.
 
Frankly, I can't say I'm not glad to see others having the same problem finally -- I don't know if my account was on some guinea pig server the past few months that they just implemented on a broader scale today but they really had no clue why this was happening.

What other explanation could there be? A virus that finally hit critical mass?
 
Recent server outages cost me about 5K in losses. I can handle the losses but what amazed me was that it took so long get it fixed.

Im hope this just a bad patch, and things will get back to normal soon.
 
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