IB reminds me of Etrade in its early days

[patch227]

Quote from nononsense:

hi all,

how is good ole IB going to learn something from what we try to explain in this thread?

Hi Non

IB will not learn anything from this thread because JM has been exceptionally hostile to them in many threads as well as to other companies. (In fact I don't even think he is a customer of IB)

I won't waste time finding the posts but even the IB rep lost his temper with JM. JM is a professional whinger whining about as many companies as possible which in no way can be seen as contributing anything to this community.

JM

I have never dissed you before (as far as I remember). Your lame, aggressive and illinformed posts leave you wide open to having this pointed out to you if this is what your are moaning about.

I am not a fanboy as you so elegantly put it but calling people idiots (e.g. on this thread) is not exactly the way to get people to respect you or to take your posting seriously.

Principle in life: Whatever you want give it out first and you will get it. i.e. When you show others respect you will get it. remember that whatever you post here will still be here long after the hangover has worn off.

 

[kiwi_trader]

Quote from JMowery1987:

I wish I could tell you nononsense, but lately, it seems majority of threads I participate in, I have someone waiting to pounce on me, the personal harassment and e-mails and im's on instant messaging programs practically forced me to change everything. I unfortunately can't change my ET handle, but I'm sorry that I have to state this stuff in the thread.

But ET staff can't stop Max401 from finding me on the internet and harassing me, I have him blocked, but I know he did make a new alias because I recieved more messages from his new one.

I think patch227 is involved too now.

It's a fucking shame because I like to participate on ET but lately just have to continually defend myself from OFF TOPIC posts like the above, it's unbelievable.

I'm going to ask Barron or someone if it is possible to switch aliases or if I can delete my current one and just print out my pm's and get a new one, it's just unbelievable the crap i'm dealing with lately, I'd say in the past month, 40% of my posts have had to been to defend myself from off-topic posts involving myself.

LMAO ... if you can't understand why this is happening you might want to stop posting for a while and think instead.

 

[jimrockford]

Quote from JMowery1987:

You are probably right, but an insanely amount of fan(boys) here, wouldn't make much sense to tell them that.

Idiotic consumers never change

That was the worthless posting that started the round of personal insults in this thread. JMowery1987 is upset because people are responding with counter-insults. Pure hypocrisy.

I will also note that the starter of this thread has made no effort to refute my previous evidence that he is a shill for a competitor of IB, falsely pretending to be an IB customer, so that he can spread lies damaging to IB's reputation.

 

[nealvan]

So what's the deal with IB are they a good online broker or what?

 

[nealvan]

Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:

Depending upon what your needs are....then yes. It's crap on wheels.

For me it's completely unusable for any sort of stat-arb system where the system logic sprays orders all over the book and then cancel/replace/modifies and/or fills those orders as needed.

IB has one of the most restrictive set of order allowances that I've ever seen from someone who claims to be "broker to the world."

1) ARCA proactive logic turned OFF....that in and of itself is enough to rule out IB for any serious trader.

2) Cancel fees

3) Bundling (snapshot) of their Time & Sales and Volume therein.

4) Limiting of message Volume.

5) Very weak API....as per all the bullshit restrictions they put on one.

IB is laughable joke for anything other than "one button freds."

Who do you suggest?

 

[stktrdr]

Quote from JMowery1987:

I wish I could tell you nononsense, but lately.....

that's because you're an idiot and obviously know next to nothing about anything.

 

[zdreg]

Quote from nealvan:

So what's the deal with IB are they a good online broker or what?

with all the threads and posts on IB + the rating on ET you still have difficulty forming an opinion.


what additional information do you need to draw a conclusion

why don't you open an account with IB and form your own opinion.

 

[jimrockford]

Adobian,

Please accept my apologies.

I accidentally confused this thread with a different thread. I posted, into this thread, accusations which were intended to be directed towarded the starter of a different thread. My posting was intended to accuse the starter of the other thread of shilling for a competitor of IB. My posting simply referred to the starter of the thread, without specifying their username, so that it creates the wrong impression that my posting was directed to you, the starter of this thread. My accusations were actually directed to the starter of a different thread.

I'm awfully sorry about this. I will PM the moderator and ask him to delete the paragraph containing my mistake.

 

[nealvan]

Quote from zdreg:

with all the threads and posts on IB + the rating on ET you still have difficulty forming an opinion.


what additional information do you need to draw a conclusion

why don't you open an account with IB and form your own opinion.

No thanks...

 

[Bitstream]

Quote from nealvan:

No thanks...

u don't know what u missin'....no broker that i know gives u da opportunity to get filled inside da mkt most of da times...ib smart routin' is second to none.