IB Improvements (Part 2)
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Originally posted by Trading4life
hey guys. I opened an account with IB. but i got problem using their trading software. IB told me its my NIC problem, any one of you have the same problem? and anyone know how to solve it?
Can i access the account and trade using IE6?
I know that there ARE nic related problems using IB. Use a real nic - Intel or 3com.
I haven't heard of any solution. I don't use the web-based tws.
I downloaded the latest installed version today, which is "752.6, 2002/01/31 15:00". It is the latest one I can download, but I also get this error.
*shrug* okay.
I've never had problems myself, but friends of mine have.@Def, some suggestions:
1. Would be fine to add a hotkey for changing the stop and not only the limit of a stop limit order. With the "Price up", "Price down" hotkeys you are only able to change the limit of a stop limit order.
2. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=41244#post41244
3. Want to repeat something that Dave wrote some days ago, and that is very disturbing in my trading too:
"There's another nasty bug that goes along with this one. When multiple order lines are created from the same
market data line then those orders are resorted in descending order of their limit price whenever one of them is
transmitted. This not only leads to confusion due to them jumping around on screen but also causes the
transmitted order to lose row focus thus disabling further hotkey manipulation of that order. The row focus
remains at the old screen position and subsequent use of hotkeys does not change the order that was moved to
that screen position due to the sorting but instead enters the corresponding keyboard characters into the limit
price field (this may be page layout dependent). At least it's not possible to inadvertently change and transmit
the wrong order this way when operating blindly. However, TWS can lock up for several seconds or even
completely when this happens. "
Thank you for your support, Def. It's fine and a great help to have at least one competent contact person at IB.
Merkur
1. Would be fine to add a hotkey for changing the stop and not only the limit of a stop limit order. With the "Price up", "Price down" hotkeys you are only able to change the limit of a stop limit order.
2. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=41244#post41244
3. Want to repeat something that Dave wrote some days ago, and that is very disturbing in my trading too:
"There's another nasty bug that goes along with this one. When multiple order lines are created from the same
market data line then those orders are resorted in descending order of their limit price whenever one of them is
transmitted. This not only leads to confusion due to them jumping around on screen but also causes the
transmitted order to lose row focus thus disabling further hotkey manipulation of that order. The row focus
remains at the old screen position and subsequent use of hotkeys does not change the order that was moved to
that screen position due to the sorting but instead enters the corresponding keyboard characters into the limit
price field (this may be page layout dependent). At least it's not possible to inadvertently change and transmit
the wrong order this way when operating blindly. However, TWS can lock up for several seconds or even
completely when this happens. "
Thank you for your support, Def. It's fine and a great help to have at least one competent contact person at IB.
Merkur
Please I humbly ask each of you to send an email to IB management and ask them to please program the following repairs or features into the IB system::: 1... Program a position column in the pending page, so that we can manage orders on stocks in which we have no position and can manage orders on stocks in which we have a position from the pending page and so that we will not accidentally delete stop orders on a stock in which we have a position not realizing we have a position in the stock because now the position is not displayed on the pending page. 2..... Program a Profit and Loss column that shows the average per share Profit and Loss for the position , regardless of entry date and regardless of whether entered and exited in increments. 3..... Prgram the capability of printing out the pending page, so that we can print a paper copy of all our pending orders.. 4.....Program it so that all the pending orders for a stock automatcally display when that stock or ticker is added onto a trading page (such as your positions page), so that we do not have to log off and log back on in order to get the pending orders to display for that stock. Thanks for any comments or feed back you give to me about the above contents. Dan Cook
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