IBKR Lite in TWS - Execution Experiences

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damoonrulz1

So who here has actual first hand experience of IBKR Lite in TWS execution fills? I have searched around the interwebs without much talk on actual customer experiences.
 
For order entry in TWS (which is the only way you can trade on Lite, I think), the differences in executions has been imperceptible to me.
 
That's going to be tough to establish without a lot of really good data. Consider the fact that 2 cents of extra slippage on a 100 share lot costs you 200% of what commission would have been. 1 extra tick slippage on 20+ ES trades will eat up all the commission you'd have paid on the Pro account. It takes a lot of really precise data to show if Lite vs Pro makes a difference.

Obviously, trading styles differ, but for me, execution is a LOT more important than commission.
 
My experience is in less liquid markets, even their normal account execution is pretty bad. I normally trade against their own algo and immediately afterwards see a print few pennies better somewhere else. They make a spread off me every time. Schwab's execution is much better. Prob because citadel or whoever gets their directed orders agrees to make a tighter market.
 
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