thanks d08 for sharing. About a week back i tried their latest version MacBook it was frozen without any charts....so i am still with STABLE version. Let me a give a try with newer version over the weekend.
FWIW ... I test all my system/API updates with both the online version which auto updates, and the stable version. Fortunately I didn't try the online version this morning, and won't until IB figures this out. Many thanks to the forum for the quick heads-up !
So just logged in again and it already auto-updated to version 979.3f Luckily I didn't have problems before, but maybe its because I just use the API and trade with Sierra Charts. This new version works just fine for me so far.
Unless they reverted to previous version I doubt they were able to adress all the different issues that happened
IB data feed. There is an option in Sierra charts to download every 5 seconds a very accurate bar, and I have this set. Without this, the spikes sometimes cause the highs and lows to be off by a few ticks, but with this option, the data is damn well accurate. I have also paid for the data from Sierra Charts which is very good, but I just don't need it, so after a few months of testing, I went back to IB. At the end of hte day, I always reload the data to get the very accurate data from Sierra Data Feed, and hardly anything changes. The only drawback of IB data is the Bid/Ask volume is not accurate, so you can't use studies like cumulative delta or tick based charts.