Quote from joeyata1:
ok i have an ib account so thats good. i think tis stupid for a synthetic order to be held on your computer till executed. but i have 2 computers one with dsl and one with cable so one should always be up
I should qualify what I said about stops on IB servers. This is the case if you use TWS for order entry. Of course third party applications using the API can do what they please, but it would be pretty stupid for an application to replicate on the PC functionality that is provided by order types implemented by IB servers.