IB Suggestions & Improvements

Currently, if you have the {right-click->Contract Info->Description} window up, and you add a new ticker, it disappears.

Make the window always remain until the user explicitly closes it, and make it provide a snapshot of all possible market data fields (i.e. so you don't have to create a page with OHLC columns if you only occasionally want to see them). Or possibly add a "snapshot" window to do this.
 
HI / LOW prices for stocks

sometimes I see erroneous prices on my TWS

and wish IB could run a scan say 2 X a day to correct the "bad" ticks.

also ... why can't IB charting show After hours
pricing for stocks too ?
 
Am I the only one experiencing these 5-15sec delays? (happens for about 10%-15% of the orders)

In various markets: CME, CBOT and Eurex.

In a FEW cases, I can explain it due to momentary bottlenecks in my ISP link, but Internet bottlenecks were always an issue in prior years as well and it never affected my trading more than a couple of seconds.

Also, market data flows fine.

Btw, I've checked the TWS "Audit trail" and in all cases SendingTime was the same as TransactTime (same second)

Quote from mtzianos:

For the last 4 weeks or so (maybe more) I've been noticing a DELAY (sometimes very high 5-15sec) to confirm order ENTRY or CANCELLATION.

Not everytime, but often enough for me to notice.

E.g. today I tried to cancel a resting limit order in Eurex and the order status remained uncofirmed for a very long time, seemed like forever. It took so long to complete the cancel, that I brought up TWS screen to check and indeed it was pink. A few seconds later it turned red (cancelled successfully).

In the past, this process was instantaneous.

Market data quotes were updating fine during that time (I know that data and orders go to different servers).

I've noticed it in several markets: CME, CBOT and Eurex

I'm using latest TWS and Java.

PS: I remember some other trader raising this issue a few days ago.
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I would like TWS' booktrade to be something like ninja trader or button trader, make trader's life much easier, basically, trader can define strategy to scale in/out with one-click trade.
 
Why not keep track of when market centers change their hours, and keep IB's trading hours up to date with them?

ARCA, for example, has been starting equity trading at 4 am every morning, ever since April. But IB ignores this, so that its website lists IB's ARCA trading hours as starting at 7:15 am. IB backfill and IB charts do not show any data prior to 7:15 am. I presume IB permits no ARCA or other U.S. equity trading prior to INET's 7 am opening. This has effected my trading, even when I am sleeping, because I wanted to set various limit orders to work during those early morning hours, but could not because IB doesn't support earlybird equity trading.

So why not permit equity trading at 4 am?

Why not pay attention to such major changes in market structures? It seems to me that something like this should be monitored and changed by IB, without waiting for customers to suggest it.
 
Hello,

I wonder if there's a way to disable the auto logoff feature. I ask myself why IB, a broker otherwise not known for excessive hand holding, doesn't allow the traders to let TWS run uninterrupted for more than 24 hours without the need for manual change of the logoff time.
 
Volume data for the ES (emini s&p) options on Globex. This is a fast growing contract and it would be useful to see what strike the volume is trading.
 
mtzianos, I experience delays of maybe 5 secs in SPI. Fills seem Ok and I think it is their matching engine being slow to send confirmation maybe (but 5 secs?........). if I close out say HSI SGXNK and SPI with the same keystroke can document that SPI reports as executed 5 or so seconds later than the others.
 
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