yes, they are, and they have been off for quite a while. I have raised this issue with them here on this thread, and even recieved pm's back from one of their 'soothsayer' types here on ET.
I'll even post his replies here, furhter down. Basically, in my not humble at all opinion, (why be humble when you can base your opinions on facts), they are FOS.
If you want to have volume reflected accurately, you have to hit the 'refresh' button, constantly, or what I liken it too as 'jiggling the toilet handle'.
RDT
http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85838
DAV
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Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 50
TWS volume
Hello,
Regarding your post on the IB volume thread.
The chart has two data streams, real time and historical. When you see bad volume data is it real time or when you are looking at past time periods?
02-14-07 02:49 PM
DAV
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Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 50
Re: TWS volume
Thanks, I will have the chart programmer take a look.
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RussellDaytrade wrote on 02-15-07 12:06 AM:
Hi DAV,
It is realtime data that is stalling, or worse, not being transmitted. It actually became worse today, not only was the volume not updating, but neither was price data, and when it was, it was intermitten all day. Let me show you an example(s), which has yet to update, and that I have not manually 'refreshed'. I will link them thru a post at the journal on this topic, in a subsequent post, (since linking attachments is not suported in the pm mechanism).
They are charts of the ES and NQ from today. On the ER, I had to constantly refresh it all through-out the day, to get price action, let alone volume. And, when it was working, it was delayed by perhaps 10-15 seconds, maybe more.
Let me ask you this, whats the problem?
Check the journal in a few minutes, and I'll post a couple of charts. it is now 7:09pm ET, well after the market has closed, and here are what ES and NQ look like. Looks like they stopped at about 12:30 ET.
DAV
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Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 50
Re: TWS volume
There was a system wide server problem yesterday that caused problems with Real time chart data. It is fixed today. Please let me know if you are still experiencing the problem today.
DAV
Interactive Brokers
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 50
Re: TWS volume
We've identified the real problem, I'll let you know when we have an ETA for the fix. Thanks.
this last pm wsa sent about two months ago, hey, they have identifies they have a real problem, and 'they will get back to me' when they they have an ETA for the fix. Only tow months later, apparently they cannot correct a fix for ACCURATELY TRANSMITTING THE FUCKING VOLUME. dickheads.
Can't = won't
why don't you see if you can take the matter up with them.
interestingly, while going thru the category to find the thread where I posted this issue, (along with others) it is absolutely astounding the sheer number of negative threads specific to IB, and, that almost all the threads in that category are specific to complaints about IB.