It's not that it freezes. It's that you have hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of limit orders ahead of you at any given market price at market open. In the market it is first come first serve with open limit orders at any set price. Market orders will be behind all of them to get filled assuming the price hasn't bounced to another in the price range you are stuck behind. At market open you have hedge funds and HFT's unloading a tumult of buy and sell limit orders via algos which is why the market is so extremely volatile in the first 30 minutes. It isn't the platform freezing, it's the orders ahead of you being executed before your market order. If you had a limit order set at that price before the funds you would be filled immediately and ahead of them. It doesn't matter how capable your computer is, it doesn't trump the rules of the market. Since I trade market opens too, and put in limit orders that are filled immediately ALSO using Tradestation, I can confirm it is not the software.
Are you sure? I know IB themselves say you can not have two different accounts with them. (At least, not under the same name). Theoretically you could do one under someone else's name (partner), and log-in for them, but I did not mean to do that.
I never stated it froze for 30 minutes. Nor did the person I replied to. I stated the first 30 minutes were extremely volatile. The first 30 seconds are insanely volatile. That is where the freezing commences. The system is unloading a shitload of buy and sell orders in the order they were received.
No, you perceived my reply that way. I didn't make you perceive it that way. That's just how you perceived it. Nowhere did I state what you stated. You just stated it and are now blaming me for how you misconstrued it. Every point extended from that misconception is an error on your part, not mine. My reply was simply an explanation of how the market works, and why.
