IB Alternative Choices?
- Thread starter DonKee
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I think most the problems people report are down to the internet and ISPs.
ISPs just don't offer the quality of connection needed for serious trading and IB's internet technology doesn't do anything clever to overcome internet unreliability.
Hence, I suppose the problem is ultimately an IB problem.
ISPs just don't offer the quality of connection needed for serious trading and IB's internet technology doesn't do anything clever to overcome internet unreliability.
Hence, I suppose the problem is ultimately an IB problem.
Im thinking with all the IB adverts on CNBC, that since they have gone mass market and can no longer properly manage their retail IT systems for the larger user base they have now.
Interactive Brokers System Status
Updated: 2006/10/10 11:26:01 EST Refreshed: 11:56 EST (Next Refresh: 60 seconds)
Exchange Availability
Stat Message Created/Updated
To ECBOT,GLOBEX Traders:
US futures market data may, once again, be delayed or unavailable for some customers.
[Mesg Id: 43961] 2006/10/10 11:26
2006/10/10 11:26
To AMEX,BOX,CBOE,ISE,PHLX,PSE Traders:
AMEX,BOX,CBOE,ISE,PHLX,PSE market data is delayed or unavailable.
[Mesg Id: 43859] 2006/10/10 10:33
2006/10/10 10:33
To AMEX,BOX,CBOE,ISE,ONE,PHLX,PSE Traders:
AMEX,BOX,CBOE,ISE,ONE,PHLX,PSE market data is delayed or unavailable.
[Mesg Id: 43854] 2006/10/10 10:12
2006/10/10 10:13
To BOX,CBOE,ISE,PHLX Traders:
AMEX BOX,CBOE,ISE,PHLX PSE market data maybe delayed or unavailable.
[Mesg Id: 43847]
The problem always seems to be with IB, and yet they always refer to it as 'problem with the exchange', ie, 'market data unavailable due to a technical problem at the exchange', etc.
What a load.
Not only that, they also are 'eliminating' some of their 'bulletins', for example, they earlier had sent out that Globex was down / intermittent, etc, (for some customers) (hey, apparently we all qualify) and then, they sent out another bulletin, that the 'problem' was 'resolved', (right at the exact highs, coincidentally). Then, the problems apparently reaapeared, but instead of continuing with their 'message cache', they have opted to remove their earlier messages of problems, and problems fixed, etc. I saw and read all the bulletins, and they seem to be 'jacking' these around also.
Can you say, 'pull the wool over their eyes'?
What I would like to know is, if there are other systems that are and have operated without problems, then that flies in the face of IB's bulletins that the 'problems' are witht he exchange.
Anyone working with other sytems that are operating normally? If so, will you list them?
IB's systems, it seems, are, (as per their phone message recording) 'All sytems functioning normally', yeah right, more like, 'SNAFU'.
What a load.
Not only that, they also are 'eliminating' some of their 'bulletins', for example, they earlier had sent out that Globex was down / intermittent, etc, (for some customers) (hey, apparently we all qualify) and then, they sent out another bulletin, that the 'problem' was 'resolved', (right at the exact highs, coincidentally). Then, the problems apparently reaapeared, but instead of continuing with their 'message cache', they have opted to remove their earlier messages of problems, and problems fixed, etc. I saw and read all the bulletins, and they seem to be 'jacking' these around also.
Can you say, 'pull the wool over their eyes'?
What I would like to know is, if there are other systems that are and have operated without problems, then that flies in the face of IB's bulletins that the 'problems' are witht he exchange.
Anyone working with other sytems that are operating normally? If so, will you list them?
IB's systems, it seems, are, (as per their phone message recording) 'All sytems functioning normally', yeah right, more like, 'SNAFU'.