Once again...IB messes stuff up. Time and sales

El_Cubano · Dec 2, 2019

Trading1717 said:
I have tried to find a solution to this and have spent ALOT of time with IB customer service with no luck, this BID/ASK colour coding does not exist on TWS unfortunately, which is so meaningless, the most important part of the T&S is to know whether the order was on the Bid or the Ask, right now all you see is uptick and down tick colouring, no change in price is white regardless of Bid/Ask.
Regarding the X100 what is the solution to this based on the 977.3e update please????
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The x100 was resolved in an update and block filtering works now.

The color coding being limited to up ticks or down ticks remains and it sucks.

Trading1717 · Dec 2, 2019

El_Cubano said:
The x100 was resolved in an update and block filtering works now.

The color coding being limited to up ticks or down ticks remains and it sucks.
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The x100 issue, do i need to configure anything cause i can still see it as x100 and not 100?

El_Cubano · Dec 2, 2019

Trading1717 said:
The x100 issue, do i need to configure anything cause i can still see it as x100 and not 100?
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No, no settings that I know off. It was just resolved for me. Are you on tws LATEST?

isc1746 · Dec 2, 2019

El_Cubano said:
We all know IB's Time and Sales is bunk.
But today they "fixed" a messed up part of it only to ruin another fix.

First issue was that the time and sales window didn't remember your column preferences...so if you had custom widths and configurations you'd have to re-adjust them every morning. Whatever...minor annoyances.

The second problem is the stupid way they display the size in the time and sales window. Instead of just simply seeing a clean $150 100 for example. You would see $150 100x100 . That little 'x100' part means nothing. IB support couldn't explain what it was or why its there...and there is no way to disable it.

Then I saw somewhere that a little hack/trick to get that stupid x100 to go away was to switch the columns so the size was first and the price after. So 100 $150 and the x100 would be gone.

But now they've fixed the column width time and sales issue and in the process brought back the x100 thing! No matter what you do or how you adjust/position columns you cant get rid of the x100. So the Time and Sales goes back to Horrible status from just the Bad status it had when I was able to trick it to not showing the x100.

The tape becomes infinitely more difficult to read when you have such a garbled mess of useless numbers taking up space as the time and sales flies bye. So by fixing one issue they reintroduce another one that we were able to hack into going away.

Can anyone from IB thats here explain the x100 thing? Beuler?
I'd love to be an idiot and wrong and be missing something. I just want a simple clean Time and Sales that works.

p.s. While Im complaining about the Time and Sales I'd also mention I could never get the "block size" filter to work
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Trading1717 · Dec 2, 2019

El_Cubano said:
No, no settings that I know off. It was just resolved for me. Are you on tws LATEST?
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Yes i checked today, im on the latest they have, i need to check tomorrow to see if that can be changed. Thanks!

ZKS31 · Apr 3, 2021

isc1746 said:
FILE=GLOBAL CONFIGURATION=DISPLAY=TICKER ROW=uncheck "Display tick-dots instead of colored prices"
Then, I followed the rabbit hole of adjusting colors for several minutes. Next, saw all the other options .....
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Bloody hell, it's not in an obvious place. That setting should be moved to the Times and Sales section.

Trading1717 · Jun 9, 2021

Anyone notice the updated T&S has additional decimals? Just to make it more complicated to follow when its speeding up, any solution to this? I have contacted IB but zero response so far

El_Cubano · Jun 9, 2021

Trading1717 said:
Anyone notice the updated T&S has additional decimals? Just to make it more complicated to follow when its speeding up, any solution to this? I have contacted IB but zero response so far
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I'm on TWS Latest. I presume you're on Beta because that hasn't rolled out to me yet. Heard another user talking about it...And it sounds like its going to piss me off if it leaves Beta and hits me.

Trading1717 · Jun 9, 2021

El_Cubano said:
I'm on TWS Latest. I presume you're on Beta because that hasn't rolled out to me yet. Heard another user talking about it...And it sounds like its going to piss me off if it leaves Beta and hits me.
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No buddy, im on LATEST, i actually tested all 3 versions and unfortunately its there on all, im in the UK so might be geographical, but im just guessing. Its so stupid that IB just makes illogical things like this, no instead of seeing a price of 16.55 it can show a price of 16.5555 the last two 5s in very small print, which makes it just annoying to look at and see when T&S is swiping quickly during active trading

El_Cubano · Jun 9, 2021

Trading1717 said:
No buddy, im on LATEST, i actually tested all 3 versions and unfortunately its there on all, im in the UK so might be geographical, but im just guessing. Its so stupid that IB just makes illogical things like this, no instead of seeing a price of 16.55 it can show a price of 16.5555 the last two 5s in very small print, which makes it just annoying to look at and see when T&S is swiping quickly during active trading
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Im TWS Latest in Canada....Only 2 decimal places on T&S here