IB Suggestions & Improvements

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by Babak, Aug 26, 2005.

  1. LOL Slim ... why don't you just fuck off back to the slimy little hole you crawled out of. :p :eek: :p

    PS. And for the prissy mamma's boys who object to the direct language, you can fuck off too :)
     
    #961     Aug 31, 2006
  2. ddunbar

    ddunbar Guest

    Do you like reading emails all day? I know I certainly don't.

    Imagine if the election process worked by sending a letter to some governing body who would have to read why you think so and so candidate should be president. Then draw a consensus from all the letters read. Not very efficient is it?

    Now imagine if candidate so and so lays out their proposal and you get a chance to say yeah or nay? A bit more efficient isn't it?

    Now imagine if you get to vote on each of this candidate's proposals...
     
    #962     Aug 31, 2006
  3. If anyones interested, a bunch of new suggestions have appeared. Some are quite good so I've voted for my favourites.

    Cheers. :)
     
    #963     Aug 31, 2006
  4. fleance

    fleance

    Hey,
    I just checked the TWS Poll, and many of my suggestions I had posted got mangled.

    For example,
    Code:
    1095 Username: fleance
    "charting. [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#cha[/url] ts-cache"
    
    This showed up fine earlier and people had voted on it, but now all the text has been deleted. I don't have the exact text I posted, but here is what I have posted on my TWS Feedback webpage (http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html)
    Code:
    Charts: Need To cache data To improve responsiveness
    
    The biggest problem with the charts is that none of the chart data is cached. I have two charts with time periods of 2 hour and 3 month. I have the "refresh chart when a new contract is selected" toggle turned on for both charts. I often click back and forth between various contracts, and I can see TWS is reloading the data from scratch each time. I have to wait 2-3 seconds, sometimes more, for the chart to load.
    
    Recommendation: TWS should cache the chart data, and then keep it up-to-date through the data subscriptions, so that switching back to a previoius chart is instantaneous!
    
    TWS needs to take advantage of user's desktop resources; My desktop has 2 GB of memory, and I would add more if it would help. Caching chart data so that reloading a chart happens instantly would really improve user's impression of TWS charting.
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts-cache[/url]
    
     
    #964     Aug 31, 2006
  5. fleance

    fleance

    The two suggestions I posted yesterday are also truncated.

    Code:
    1148
    	Username: fleance
    server. [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#save-[/url] ettings-online
    
    Here is what I posted:
    Code:
    TWS standalone should store your settings online, so you can get the same
    settings on any computer in the world, without fooling around with
    synchronization programs. I run TWS on three different machines, a laptop, a
    desktop at home, and a desktop at my office, and I have wasted countless hours
    trying to keep my settings synced up between all the machines. Also, when
    travelling, I occasionally use the TWS applet, which has it's own setttings.
    TWS settings, no matter standalone or applet, should all be stored in one
    place on IB's server.
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#save-settings-online[/url]
    

    Code:
    1149
    	Username: fleance
    details. [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#posi[/url] ion-windows
    
    Here is what I posted:
    Code:
    UI: TWS should postion all dialogs and popup windows to avoid overlapping the windows taskbar.
    I have my Windows taskbar at the top of the screen. Whenever TWS pops up a new
    or temporary dialog, it is always dispalyed under my taskbar. This forces me to
    resize my taskbar temporarily in order to make the title bar of the new dialog
    visible so I can drag it lower. Sun added a Window Centering API in JDK 1.4 
    which IB should use to fix this problem. Follow the link for details.
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#position-windows[/url]
    
    I'm not sure why only my entries appear to be truncated? I though it was related to the fact I included a URL and maybe it choked, but other entires have URL and they don't look truncated.

    Also my #1097 "Charts should maintain a constant spacing and candlestick width, and allow the time period to auto adjust to fill the chart canvas." contains a URL,and that wasn't truncated.

    Anyway, IB can you please fix these up? Thanks
    http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html
     
    #965     Aug 31, 2006
  6. fleance

    fleance

    Truncated:
    Code:
    1101 Username: fleance
    annoying! [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#cha[/url] ts-minimize-resets-toggle  
    
    What I posted:
    Code:
    Charts: If I have hidden the menubar and toolbar with the "Sets the chart full screen and back"
    toggle, and then I minimize the chart to the taskbar, when I restore the chart,
    the menubar and toolbar appear again. I have to click the toggle again to hide
    them. Very annoying!
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts-minimize-resets-toggle[/url]
    
    Truncated:
    Code:
    1100 Username: fleance
    back." [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts[/url] resize-resets-toggle  
    
    What I posted:
    Code:
    Charts: When I resize the graph, the menubar and toolbar popup again, even though I
    hid them with the "Sets the chart full screen and back."
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts-resize-resets-toggle[/url]
    
    Truncated:
    Code:
    1099 Username: fleance
    annoying! [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#cha[/url] ts-cursor-focus-lost-when-chart-refreshes 
    
    What I posted:
    Code:
    Charts: If I have a chart with "Refresh chart when a new contract is selected",
    when I move the cursor on the contract page to a contract, the chart gets
    updated, but I lose the cursor focus in TWS. I have to reclick on the row with
    the mouse before I can move the cursor again. Very annoying!
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts-cursor-focus-lost-when-chart-refreshes[/url]
    
    Truncated:
    Code:
    1098 Username: fleance
    again. [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts[/url] toggles  
    
    What I posted:
    Code:
    Charts: Preserve the "refresh chart when a new contract is selected" and "Sets
    the chart full screen and back." toggles when you save your settings.  When I
    restart TWS, I find I have to reset these again.
    [url]http://fleance.fastmail.fm/tws_feedback.html#charts-toggles[/url]
    
    All of these I saw yesterday and they posted fine, but today they all are truncated.. What's up IB?
    Seems like every item I posted except #1097 got truncated.
     
    #966     Aug 31, 2006
  7. It is 84 suggestions in total (before the first round of review).
    However I noticed 5 suggestions are being deleted. I have no clue why these suggestions are deleted instead of declined, so only 79 are left.

    The 2 implementation are not really something. The first one is to raise the limit from 150 characters to 1000 characters. Effortless. The second is not really an implementation. The request simply suggests IB taking priority of fixing existing bugs over implementing new features. IB "implemented" it.

    So it is actually 1 being scheduled, 2 implementation in progress.

    3 suggestions are declined, but it should be 2 only. I think the reason why #1071 is declined because it is a duplication of #1035 (this one is being accepted), so #1071 is not actually declined.

    Acceptance Rate
    = (2+1) / (84-1-2)
    = 3 / 81
    = 3.70%
    Note: 1 is deducted from 84 is to take the declined suggestion of #1071 into account.
    2 is deducted from 84 is to remove the two non-feature implementations out of the total sample size.

    Decline Rate
    = 2 / 81
    = 2.46%

    Deletion Rate
    = 5 / 81
    = 6.17%
     
    #967     Sep 1, 2006
  8. #968     Sep 1, 2006
  9. fleance,
    You are not alone. I see there are other posts which appears to be truncated. I think the messages are truncated on purpose.

    It appears posts which have links tend to be very short after first round of review.
    IB may think that since you have included the contents in another page, you shouldn't repeat in the poll page. That's why they condensed your post.

    Note: It's just an informed guess. I may be wrong.
     
    #969     Sep 1, 2006
  10. Murthyy

    Murthyy

    How can manage two different accounts in TWS ? Like regular and an IRA.
     
    #970     Sep 1, 2006