Currently, if you have the {right-click->Contract Info->Description} window up, and you add a new ticker, it disappears. Make the window always remain until the user explicitly closes it, and make it provide a snapshot of all possible market data fields (i.e. so you don't have to create a page with OHLC columns if you only occasionally want to see them). Or possibly add a "snapshot" window to do this.
HI / LOW prices for stocks sometimes I see erroneous prices on my TWS and wish IB could run a scan say 2 X a day to correct the "bad" ticks. also ... why can't IB charting show After hours pricing for stocks too ?
Am I the only one experiencing these 5-15sec delays? (happens for about 10%-15% of the orders) In various markets: CME, CBOT and Eurex. In a FEW cases, I can explain it due to momentary bottlenecks in my ISP link, but Internet bottlenecks were always an issue in prior years as well and it never affected my trading more than a couple of seconds. Also, market data flows fine. Btw, I've checked the TWS "Audit trail" and in all cases SendingTime was the same as TransactTime (same second)
I would like TWS' booktrade to be something like ninja trader or button trader, make trader's life much easier, basically, trader can define strategy to scale in/out with one-click trade.
Why not keep track of when market centers change their hours, and keep IB's trading hours up to date with them? ARCA, for example, has been starting equity trading at 4 am every morning, ever since April. But IB ignores this, so that its website lists IB's ARCA trading hours as starting at 7:15 am. IB backfill and IB charts do not show any data prior to 7:15 am. I presume IB permits no ARCA or other U.S. equity trading prior to INET's 7 am opening. This has effected my trading, even when I am sleeping, because I wanted to set various limit orders to work during those early morning hours, but could not because IB doesn't support earlybird equity trading. So why not permit equity trading at 4 am? Why not pay attention to such major changes in market structures? It seems to me that something like this should be monitored and changed by IB, without waiting for customers to suggest it.
Hello, I wonder if there's a way to disable the auto logoff feature. I ask myself why IB, a broker otherwise not known for excessive hand holding, doesn't allow the traders to let TWS run uninterrupted for more than 24 hours without the need for manual change of the logoff time.
The ability to force a reconnect if the auto reconnect fails (without shutting down and restarting) is needed.
Volume data for the ES (emini s&p) options on Globex. This is a fast growing contract and it would be useful to see what strike the volume is trading.
mtzianos, I experience delays of maybe 5 secs in SPI. Fills seem Ok and I think it is their matching engine being slow to send confirmation maybe (but 5 secs?........). if I close out say HSI SGXNK and SPI with the same keystroke can document that SPI reports as executed 5 or so seconds later than the others.