IB Suggestions & Improvements

Dimeo,

I'm not seeing the problem. It's pretty much boilerplate at most brokerages that trade futures on the CME. Do you not want to trade futures and are looking only to trade stocks?

You know, it is called a universal account. So you can trade anything and just about everything that's electronically traded. What if you decided to hedge a stock position using stock futures?
 
Quote from IBsoft:

We had decided to work on this the first time you posted it. (We have the data saved, we just don't currently expose it). But even if we hadn't, why are you repeating your post?
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I didn't intend or see my second post as "repeating" my earlier post related to this suggestion. I saw my second post as providing a specific example, of a specific situation, which can arise under the current state of affairs, and which provides evidence supporting the suggestion made by my first post. I thought my second post added something new to what was previously contained in my first post. If I had thought my 2nd post was merely a repetition of my 1st post, then I would not have made my 2nd post.

Thank you for telling me that IB is working on my suggestion. Do we have any ETA at this point?
 
Quote from jimrockford:

I didn't intend or see my second post as "repeating" my earlier post related to this suggestion. I saw my second post as providing a specific example, of a specific situation, which can arise under the current state of affairs, and which provides evidence supporting the suggestion made by my first post. I thought my second post added something new to what was previously contained in my first post. If I had thought my 2nd post was merely a repetition of my 1st post, then I would not have made my 2nd post.

Thank you for telling me that IB is working on my suggestion. Do we have any ETA at this point?
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Understood. I will get the ETA today.
 
Quote from IBsoft:

Understood. I will get the ETA today.
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Thank you very much.

And I hope those thinking of opening an Interactive Brokers account realize that IB's intraday historical database, accessible by API download and by charting and time and sales research tools, is just one more advantage of moving to IB. Extensive intraday historical data is elsewhere much more expensive than current data, but at IB, it is practically free. I just thought I owe IB a little praise on this point, since I am happy that they are extending their tools to access expired futures contracts data. Once IB has expired futures contracts accessible in its historical intraday database, IB will have far more historical data to offer than the grossly overpriced E-signal, for example.
 
for those of us who are forced to used webtrader behind corporate firewalls, it would be nice if you lined up decimal places in the same location for all positions so magnitudes are visually displayed. should just be a simple printf formatting option change or similar.

existing display:

1234.5678
10.0
787.32

suggested :

1234.57
**10.00
*787.32

or

1234.5678
**10.0
*787.32

you get the idea. it looks like the message board software eliminates leading spaces and doesn't use a fixed width font.
 
Quote from IBsoft:

Understood. I will get the ETA today.
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I don't have the promised ETA. The project is more complicated that initially thought (as is often the case) and it does not have the highest priority. If you don't hear from me in two weeks, would you please ping me?

Thank you.
 
Quote from ddunbar:

You mean TWS (trader workstation), not Webtrader. Webtrader is html based with some Java script.

In any event, I've used plenty of platforms. I find TWS to be one of the best. It doesn't take 2 to 3 mins to get a login prompt. The login comes up in 5 secs and the Java based stand alone TWS program loads in under 20 secs or less.

The thing is, many traders who use IB tend to have updated, state of the art computer systems. Serious traders use serious tools. So JAVA's seemingly slow load and high overhead is nominal to them. And they tend to log on TWS once in the day and leave it up and running until their trading day ends.

I know this is true for myself. :)

Wanks out there who are still using pentium IIs and IIIs for trading... well, you know. Must be small investors.
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WebTrader is Java Servlet app. See the url:
https://wt1.interactivebrokers.com/webtrader/servlet/login

If IB must stick with Java. One suggestion is that you use JSP with multiple tiers. It could have better performance.

I have stand-alone TWS installed in my home pc, it does not have much performance issue.

However, I can only use WebTrader from my company pc b/c the firewall issue and it is also not a good idea to install any Trade app in company machine. The lousy WebTrader becomes an issue.

I use MobileTrader, too. It is fast and easy to use.
 
Quote from bundlemaker:

How hard would it be to include STOP orders as an option (instead of just MARKET or LIMIT) to a conditional order. This would make my life soooooo much easier. Is there any reason other than no one else thought to do it?

Thanks IB for your reply.
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I posted this a couple of pages back but seems to have been ignored or missed. Could an IB rep please make a comment.

Thanks.
 
Do away w/ the auto-exit function. For someone who trades various markets there is no real "good time" to have the system exit out .....make it the default function to exit out and if the user wants to override this function make it available.


I posted this one a few pages back as well .... checked out a Yahoo forum on IB but no real help... was wondering if its even on the Radar at IB.....apprec
 
Quote from jimrockford:

Thank you very much.

And I hope those thinking of opening an Interactive Brokers account realize that IB's intraday historical database, accessible by API download and by charting and time and sales research tools, is just one more advantage of moving to IB. Extensive intraday historical data is elsewhere much more expensive than current data, but at IB, it is practically free. I just thought I owe IB a little praise on this point, since I am happy that they are extending their tools to access expired futures contracts data. Once IB has expired futures contracts accessible in its historical intraday database, IB will have far more historical data to offer than the grossly overpriced E-signal, for example.
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Yes, but will we be able to access it on the weekends? Would also like to see free delayed data.
 
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