Serious IB programming glitch

[Pete - IB]

Quote from SideShowBob:

The lesson here .... NEVER upgrade TWS until you are forced to, and then make sure you search on this forum before using a specific version.

With IB there's no QA or regression testing, and their designers appear to work in a vacuum AND do not appear to have ever traded or used TWS. And I like IB.....

This wasn't an issue of lack of QA or testing. The change was made intentionally. We simply didn't anticipate the negative response.

 

[rwk]

Quote from SideShowBob:
The lesson here .... NEVER upgrade TWS until you are forced to, and then make sure you search on this forum before using a specific version. . .

This is a bit cynical perhaps, but it's also the policy I follow.

Let me say that I am a happy IB customer for about 5 years now. Nobody uses technology as well as IB, but software quality (especially regression testing) has always been weak. At times, support has been poor also.

But the TWS is a pretty amazing product, especially as a cross-platform tool. We all complain about the API, but it's free and it supports multiple languages and operating systems. It we just has some documentation and support. . .

[rwk]

 

[Magna]

Quote from Pete - IB:

Thank you all for the honest feedback, and in particular to syswizard for suggesting a solution.

We are going to implement the second solution suggested by syswizard. There will be a "Remember my decision" checkbox added to the window.

This fix will be posted shortly.

Thanks Pete for addressing this problem so quickly and I look forward to the version with the fix. I was dumbfounded when I was unpleasantly surprised by this "feature" during a trade, and have been so annoyed by the total subversion of the word instantaneously that, last night, I removed the new version and went back to an older one (after getting nailed by this new "feature" a few times again yesterday). Anyway, thanks again.


[LATER EDIT:] Thanks for all comments related to the discussion I started, and especially thanks to IB for addressing this very annoying and potentially dangerous issue. If you have other comments/complaints about IB please post them to an appropriate existing thread or start a new one.