What was the Bid/Ask spread at the time you placed the order?? I assume it was in the $2.60/$2.70 range. Seems to me it must have been moving a lot for you to have gotten a fill at $2.40. Even if you did mistakenly enter $2.40 as the limit, IB's Smart routing should have gotten you executed much higher than that if the Bid/Ask was higher. Jack
Could it be you typed it in but it didn't 'take' and you sold the bid? If there was a bug then many would be having the trouble, and they are not.
That's happened to me a couple times. I backspace over the old price, type in a new price, followed by enter, and the previous price remains there. With IB, though, you'll likely never get an option fill that's worse than the NBBO, so any mistake has limited impact.
Are you talking also that the order went through? With IB, though, you'll likely never get an option fill that's worse than the NBBO, so any mistake has limited impact. [/QUOTE] Yet spread between bid and ask can still be horrendous.
Occasionally, yes, if I was doing things quickly and didn't verify the price before transmitting. type type type type type enter transmit tada OH DAMN. After a couple of those I learned to slow down and look at the price before clicking on transmit.
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As tef8 has never responded to some questions about other possible explanations to the problem and he/she also stated that IB had never made good on tef8's other problems, I'd go with operator error. Jack