IB - Booktrader 906 no more single click!

[OldTrader]

Quote from AMT4SWA:

I currently use TradeVec with their "Execution Zones" DOM type set up for most all my futures trading (and Forex trading will also be activated in the next week or two). I still have several Ninjatrader 7 accounts that I use on occasion but I have been shifting most everything over to TradeVec ( http://vcapfutures.com/futures-trading-platforms/tradevec).

For a separate managed account I trade, I had to get set up to use IB (my first thought was.....UUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). After spending a week with IB and Booktrader for FA type acct trading, I am ready to chuck IB's crap into the very bottom of the dumpster (where all the old dumpster juice rests). IB with all their damn money they have two major mind boggling problems imo....first off, their "snapshot" data is like polluted swamp water out of the backyard hose. Second, their Booktrader is the most non-user friendly piece of overly sensitive (we are scared of all client traders) piece of $hit I have ever used. Most all IB software seems to be designed with the mentalities they are scared $hitless of being involved in the trading industry......so "sack up" IB and build a fricking user friendly, simplistic, and NO CONFIRMATION needed DOM. If you can't do that, then just buy out Ninjatrader with all your damn money and use THEIR programmers for all new software going forward!!!

I sure wished the very simple and straight forward NT7 had the capability to trade Financial Advisor accts through IB.....that would be such a simple set up.

Well maybe the Multicharts FA acct set up through IB will end up being a solution I can go with soon......hopefully VERY DAMN SOON!!!

Did you even bother to read this thread??? Evidently not. I would suggest you go back and read some of the posts so that you don't look like such a dumbass. If you do, you will notice that IB is evidently being sued by TT for patent infringement over their booktrader. So my guess is that booktrader has added the confirmation feature for that reason.

As to the data, there have been many, many threads about IB data. You've been involved in some of them, so you knew in advance the type of data that IB used. So why the rant now??? That said, all you gotta do is use a charting program that uses every tick like E-Signal, and others, and the IB data goes away. Personally I have had no problems with their data, and I've been using it for years.

Finally, there are front end software that you can use with IB. Like ButtonTrader and ZeroLine Trader.

By the way, I checked out the new booktrader. I don't care for the confirmation feature either, but it looked to me like it was easy and fast to use. I think if they had to have it, they designed it pretty well.

OldTrader

 

[AMT4SWA]

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[TapeFighter]

Quote from Cdntrader:

I suspect IB is working on some solution.

I'm not yet a IB customer so I can't vote on the poll, but here is my 2 cents. If the patent is about single click trading, then make it Ctrl+Click, Alt+Click or like that (just hold the Ctrl/Alt key and do the scalping with the mouse) until the TT guys give up. Problem solved.

 

[rcj]

Im wondering if TT is going to be able to go after ZLT and ButtonTrader since neither of them is based in U.S. ?

 

[Arjun1]

Quote from TapeFighter:

I'm not yet a IB customer so I can't vote on the poll, but here is my 2 cents. If the patent is about single click trading, then make it Ctrl+Click, Alt+Click or like that (just hold the Ctrl/Alt key and do the scalping with the mouse) until the TT guys give up. Problem solved.

This is actually a good temporary solution.

 

[sprstpd]

Quote from TapeFighter:

I'm not yet a IB customer so I can't vote on the poll, but here is my 2 cents. If the patent is about single click trading, then make it Ctrl+Click, Alt+Click or like that (just hold the Ctrl/Alt key and do the scalping with the mouse) until the TT guys give up. Problem solved.

I thought I read somewhere else where a judge specifically ruled that this would still fall under "single click" trading. So adding Ctrl or Alt to the input sequence doesn't change whether the method infringes on the patent.

 

[stock777]

Again, the notion that single click trading can be patented makes me want to kill someone.

 

[ET99]

booktrader suxk anyway
most traders use bracket trader.

 

[AMT4SWA]

Quote from OldTrader:

Did you even bother to read this thread??? Evidently not. I would suggest you go back and read some of the posts so that you don't look like such a dumbass. If you do, you will notice that IB is evidently being sued by TT for patent infringement over their booktrader. So my guess is that booktrader has added the confirmation feature for that reason.

OldTrader

Yes I know all about the TT patent, but others in the same boat have platforms with legal issues still pending that do not have current forced order confirmations.

The TT patent issue needs to finally get resolved once and for all.....this whole DOM issue is getting old.

 

[OldTrader]

Quote from AMT4SWA:

Yes I know all about the TT patent, but others in the same boat have platforms with legal issues still pending that do not have current forced order confirmations.

The TT patent issue needs to finally get resolved once and for all.....this whole DOM issue is getting old.

The bottom line is that you can go to either ButtonTrader, or ZeroLine Trader. Both are good front-end solutions for IB.

OldTrader