IB - No Data ?

[nravo]

Quote from LT701:

I definately would like this to make the media

Just look up whatever WSJ reporters have written about IB in the past; they usually have a link on their stories. And short them an e-mail. They are often very receptive, especially when they get multiple people e-mailing them.

 

[gwac]

This plus no tax receipts yet.... Nice job guys....

 

[FortuneTeller]

Quote from trader123abc:

I trade with IB and learned many years ago to have a backup trading account!
Never miss a beat that way!

You have it backwards. You should trade with someone else and have IB as a backup. No, IB isn't even good enough to be a backup. This is the 2nd time in what, 2 months that their old decaying system has gone down big time? They still suck just like back in the old days. In fact, they are getting worse.

 

[nravo]

Been down for at least 90 minutes here in Sydney. Woke up to trade the last two hours of the US market and ...

 

[thrunner]

Futures was out here from 2:57 to 3:23 EST. That was quite a 15 point move on the ES during that time.

 

[Intelinvestor]

When market moves, IB freezes

 

[makloda]

What I have always been wondering: Why does IB lock us into _having_ to use their data feed exclusively. Why not open up a plug-in architecture in TWS so I can subscribe to 1-2 additional vendors and switch feeds when needed. Just seems like common sense to me.

 

[LT701]

wonder what percent of their workforce is H-1bs from India?

 

[Pholeuon]

Absolutely not working here in Europe. I was quite sucessfull today I am very curious and furious how it looks now.
I am probably over my overnight margin - they will shoot me down like pigeon?

 

[Gravestone Doji]

Logged in and had no data this afternoon. But logged in with out any problem, Had the red alert message and it indicated data problems for some customers. Sure enough I had no data. But I left my TWS open and never logged out. I'm now getting Stocks. ETF's and Futures. No backfill though for QT.