Points taken. Please note that the small delay (several hundred milliseconds to 1 second) shouldn't be a factor at all. Think about it. As a...
No, it's not you. I refer to the person who officially took charge of my case, handled and answered my ticket. I filed this case long time ago...
Based on my about ten years of trading experience, I couldn't think of a valid explanation why someone would not want to use SLO in this case. ELO...
Good to hear that IB was honest about their mistakes about ten years ago. Unfortunately this sort of good news didn't happen to me. What I...
IB system failure seems to be higher than expected this year. I experienced market data loss and screw-ups (eg chart plotting wrong bars) about...
Ideal is used to be a platform to trade at a size of less than 25,000 USD. It's gone now. I tried to submit an order of 24000 USD as a test. It...
I want to stress that my stop orders were executed successfully when I tested it in PaperTrading. It's the trap! You never know it actually failed...
This raised another question. I didn't receive a "cancellation" flag (ie the red color cell) even though my stop was actually rejected when it...
All local brokers I use give me options to choose specifically what limit order I send to the market. Unfortunately IB doesn't have those options...
Finally I received a reply from IB today after several hard pushes. It's ridiculous that I have to resort to a forum to successfully force IB to...
This has happened two times already. I reported it immediately once it occurred. The staff said they are checking. None called back. Also...
Hello. What are your needs or criteria? IB is still your best choice if you want to trade many worldwide products on one account. As far as...
IB is my backup broker now and I haven't really traded with it for the last year. I submitted two stop limit orders this month but they all failed...
That's ridiculous. More people should know about it. :( :(
Another compliant from a former IB customer: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163992 He questioned how IB actually...
I would say IB margin policy has gone crazy since last global financial turmoil so it's nothing surprising if such things happen on IB. They...
I don't understand either. The ask should update to 0.60 (Which is your order) in this case. Several questions: 1. Is your order accepted in...
There are products which are still trading in the major US markets when Asian reset time clicks in. For example US index & interest-rate futures...
Two resets times happen at the middle of trading: US/European servers => in the middle of Asian markets' trading session Asian servers => in the...
IB monitors your margin in real time. It takes IB less than 1 second to liquidate your positions. IB will still be able to liquidate your...
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