IBKR is on the move today and guess what? It aint up

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You know it's a sign that you haven't done your due diligence if you think IB has any great technology...or ever did.

TWS sucks. Their only technology is jack of all trades master of none. There is no technological advantage in trading at IB. None, because their platform's terrible. I find it useful as a professional for account allocations but it's entirely too confusing, and the smart router will send you to 24/6 ECN's and not the primary exchange, which is what they're supposed to do anyway if NBBO isn't at the exchange then they're required to stick it somewhere else.

No, there isn't any great technology here. They just offer a wide variety of securities types, but the platform's terrible, which, if it weren't for the platform sucking as much as it does I might give my vote a better rating for them. Other than fills on time that much is to be expected, and just because they offer all types of securities and commodities, bonds, forex, stocks, options does not mean that they have any technological advantages because they don't.

I especially dislike them as a broker requiring clients to pay for data. That shows they aren't very big.
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Dude, you’re starting to sound less smart.
 
Quote from bwolinsky:


I especially dislike them as a broker requiring clients to pay for data. That shows they aren't very big. [/B]
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it is business. if a client uses 10 different exchanges they should pay the exchanges fees.
 
I actually think their charting is pretty good. Well at least compared to say 2-3 years ago. Back then, it was pretty rudimentary. Unusable really, which is why I was using QuoteTracker. But now, it gives you the basic studies, RSI, MACD, Pivot Points. What it has going for it is ChartTrader and that it loads quickly. I routinely can bring up 12 charts in a single window from TWS very quickly.

As for bloat, it doesn't crash. I have it up ALL day with 7 chart windows and it's been stable for at least a year. Right now it's at 570MB in memory. But I don't feel any slowdown and I'm running 64-bit Windows.

Quote from jeb9999:

My complaints about TWS are unfixed bugs, terrible charting and bloat.

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Quote from stock777:

Ib hasnt crashed once in 10 years.


can bwolinsky say the same?
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You know you've made it when you can drawdown $15,000 intraday, and still net $75,000 every 3 days.
 
Quote from bwolinsky:

You know you've made it when you can drawdown $15,000 intraday, and still net $75,000 in 3 days.
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Hey Beau, your CTA AUM is listed on AG and you're nowhere near $75k in AUM. How do you reconcile that fact?
 
Quote from atticus:

Hey Beau, your CTA AUM is listed on AG and you're nowhere near $75k in AUM. How do you reconcile that fact?
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They do not count proprietary funds as AUM.

I also do not have the current monthly return posted as of yet.

One of those programs is supposed to be kept at $25k at all times but not by adding. Mostly everyday, I move money to what I call the follower account, that's much larger.

Not sure why the AUM's not showing, but there's a composite and what we're doing for susbscribers.
 
Quote from bwolinsky:

They do not count proprietary funds as AUM.

I also do not have the current monthly return posted as of yet.
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We both know that's BS, but good job regardless.
 
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