I was not addressing you when I talked about a certain bunch of guys constantly chiming in when someone reports an IB related issue. I agree with you, if you cant submit an order then that is a serious problem. Has this been a persistent problem? No. Have you contacted IB over the phone or chat to demand answers? I have not heard about that or must have overlooked it.
So now you speak for other users that you clearly know nothing about? You just asked another user out of which jurisdiction he trades. Clearly you dont know that person. So how come I am jumping the gun when I actually did the work to check what JamesJ complained about in the past. Have you equally checked it out? I doubt it.
You don't do anything over port 4000. Everything must be encrypted so 4001 is the only one that matters. This has nothing to do with your order status. It's likely due to the fact that their servers or exchange servers (unlikely) are over-utilized at this point and cannot immediately acknowledge the order. This happens regularly when you submit orders at night for US RTH.
IBKR is great on so many levels for me. - huge selection of tradeable markets - good ethics - customer service (yeah right! Got everything resolved quickly, when i need something) as key account customer. And so on. - tws
Given that you complain an awful lot about IB. Glad to hear you also find some positives about your broker of choice. And despite not knowing you I honestly hope those issues you find are gonna be resolved sooner than later.
Yes but not for over-utilization reasons (for out RTH). I had this issue once in my long relationship with IB with tbills. It had something to do with a pricing issue and configuration setting that I had to change after conversing with IB. If it matters to you I am happy to try to dig it up
I noticed this behavior as well. Interestingly the pattern seems to be coincidental with market volatile conditions. (Pretty much every day in March 2020) Hence i believe is due to extra time required for their server to check for customer margin requirements. Or something other else, for instance to prevent disruption of market liquidity. Indeed adding delays let the broker/exchange to manage better the flows.. I wouldn’t be surprise if this the real root cause. At some point the delays especially overnight were almost a minute something that breaks completely scalping trading. The solution was to trade during these times with a different broker.
You seem to assume that this message means that your order has not been submitted from your computer to IB's servers. My impression is that this message means that IB has sent the order to the exchange, but that the exchange has not yet confirmed to IB that the order is placed. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/...imeactivitymonitoring/order_status_colors.htm