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The only reason I can think of for the exchange name is bandwidth.

Sub penny, maybe the same but less likely.
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i don't know if it's a bandwidth or something else,but what's clear to me(and i've mentioned it few times here) that IB is clearly in a 'saving' mode. while everyone else is trying to be fastest and more competitive-IB just keeps cutting everything everywhere.
and it's been like this for years. probably since they became a public company.why not to allow customer to run paper account from same network?why it's NOW limited to run only from same PC,where actual account is running?
does this makes ANY SENSE? it wasn't' like that before. i'm not comfortable to experiment on same PC that i'm trading on. and sometimes -it's not even possible. i might understand,if one gives his paper account to somebody else on the other side of the world-this MAYBE ...MAYBE make some sense(not to me,because this is where IB is contradicting to itself)-you are allowing 'some other people' to trade customers accounts,but not allowing them to test the trader on paper. :confused:
 
Bob111,

We have addressed the issue related to you not being able to suppress YTW bond compliance dialog on per order basis (as you pointed out, you could still suppress it for all orders); this is backend only change and it is available to you immediately; it is being rolled out to the rest of the clients.

This bug was specific to your use case (which is not very common), email me if you want to know details (I'm not going to post them here to maintain your privacy).
 
They have been good to me. I generated $10,500+ in commissions so far this year for them. While maybe not in league with all you big boys a fair deal for what I need. If you need more there are brokers available, and you should contact them and work with them to your benefit. At the same time your points are good and hopefully IB will keep making improvements. I have used them when they were horrid, in my opinion, but improvements have been made, so let's keep pushing for better. They seem to listen, but like most business it seems like a century for them to be incorporated.
 
Quote from dst:

Thank you for your report; this was corrected in currently posted beta 940.1j; 939 build will shortly be updated with these fixes too
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Thank you very much - works fine.
 
what is the point of having all those arrows(which suppose to indicate NEWS) all over the chart? spikes up,spikes down..all day long.
you move the mouse over the chart=at least one of them will pop up in separate window. I CAN SEE that the price spiked up or down,without IB telling me that. the problem is-there is no way to disable it. once you un check the news-those 'spike' messages disappear and so any other REAL news. just another example of 'creative work',that doesn't make any sense. not practical and not even cosmetic

btw-how they calculated those spikes is also not clear to me. cause numbers they show in those messages doesn't make any sense either. spike down relative to WHAT? cause if one try to calculate % from yesterday close(the 'common' way)-they don't match with IB's % :p
boy oh boy..
 

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Quote from Bob111:

I CAN SEE that the price spiked up or down,without IB telling me that. the problem is-there is no way to disable it.
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The point is: you actually need to open a chart (or closely monitor prices) to notice price reaching 52w milestone, price spike, unusual option volume (the latter needs even more involved analysis); instead of doing this, you can setup Newswire with few tickers you are interested in, and just watch that window (I'd imagine you will be interested in both human produced news, and in auto-generated alerts).

To remove our proprietary IB Market Signals feed, go to Configuration - Information Tools - News Configuration - Settings and uncheck "IB Market Signals" from the list of providers.
 
all i see on this particular ticker is 1 spike down and 5 spikes up messages. not sure,how they can help any trader,but thank you for explanation on how to get rid of it.
 
Quote from Bob111:

all i see on this particular ticker is 1 spike down and 5 spikes up messages. not sure,how they can help any trader,but thank you for explanation on how to get rid of it.
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We offer free IB Market Signals feed as a free service to our customers; again this feed is build on top of our proprietary algorithms and quite a few clients asked for it.

You would see more news if you would, naturally, subscribe for paid news subscription, see below of how this will look like then (3 news are from DJ Global Market News, Fly On The Wall, and Briefing Trader feeds).
 

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