What if your platform sends hidden info about your next possible trade?...

Quote from stock777:
traderum, at least post something plausible if you're going to express your mental illness publicly.

Hey, everbody can test, see, and confirm it him/herself, just do your own testing.
Some have already confirmed it here and also via PM.
These are unfair, even criminal, practices by the broker(s).
But if even the watchdog authorities are their own people then you can think what happens... nothing... It's so ugly...
 
Quote from traderum:

nassau, thanks for the confirmation.
this is unbelievable, shocking, it's a big scandal!
I don't find the right words to condemn such dirty practices of the brokers at the moment. Maybe more later...

If you have a doubts then you can try to connect IB through another software, like for example PT MultiStation and test it.
 
Quote from traderum:

Yes, I know, that seems to be the only solution.
But hey, what I don't understand is why on hell does IB do such unethical things?! It's fraud! It's a crime!

Enough BS already.

Anyone thinking a firm would even have the ability or care about orders that are PENDING submission yet alone do that on a PAPER trading account has a screw loose.

The crime here are your false accusations and that no one has been able to remove the screw from your head.
 
Quote from traderum:

My initial conclusion of this is:

The TWS is useless for placing orders via it.

A better method is doing it via an own program using the API, or via a 3rd party program (for example Ninja Trader etc; though I have no experience with NT yet).

If you are making money I am sure Ninja trader will send your trades to their trading team to front run you. All the brokers to do it. Why wouldn't they? Its free money piggy backing on their profitable traders.
 
Quote from traderum:

I'm sure it does. The moment I open the mask the price goes automatically up.
This happens nearly always, ie. it's repeatable.
Yes, a network sniffer will prove it. I'll investigate this next week.

If that always happens why wouldn't you sell it? Seems like free money

5yr
 
Quote from traderum:

I have the suspicion that the TWS platform does inform the market maker
(and/or the brokers own trading team... ie. those guys at the broker who trade
against their own clients by spying their actions etc...) about your intention
when you open a mask and begin filling it... long before you push the final
button to send out the order...
Can this be true? :-)

I never had any reason to try it myself but I've heard if you bang your head against a brick wall hard enough, those voices you're hearing will stop.

Give it a try will'ya.

If it doesn't work the first time just keep trying.
 
Quote from 5yrtrader:
If that always happens why wouldn't you sell it? Seems like free money
5yr

No, no, if the qty is negative (ie. short selling) then of course exactly the opposite happens...
And, also It you want to close your position and prepare the mask for it then... exactly in the same moment the price moves against you, because the MM (or the intermediary Broker) moves the price against you....
So your mere going to the order mask has been silently transmitted to the broker and/or MM!
We are not talking of sending an order! We are talking of filling/preparing an order...
Just imagine!...
 
Quote from traderum:

No, no, if the qty is negative (ie. short selling) then of course exactly the opposite happens...
And, also It you want to close your position and prepare the mask for it then... exactly in the same moment the price moves against you, because the MM (or the intermediary Broker) moves the price against you....
So your mere going to the order mask has been silently transmitted to the broker and/or MM!
We are not talking of sending an order! We are talking of filling/preparing an order...
Just imagine!...
Oh yeah I just remembered, you could also try wearing an aluminum foil hat. To keep IB from reading your brain waves on upcoming trades.
 
Quote from Lucrum:

Oh yeah I just remembered, you could also try wearing an aluminum foil hat. To keep IB from reading your brain waves on upcoming trades.

Luc, I have worn one( aluminum foil hat) for years and IB has not been able to tap my trade strategies. But I do have someone lurking in my garden, shit!
 
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