i will happily disagree with that. i do not see many improvements in say past 5 years - in fact things were probably better then (but arguably I was trading less accounts and less money). Could you please tell me what got better? (and do not say a security )
Three biggies: 1. More markets that are open while I'm awake. 2. Backfill data. 3. 5 second true data bars for charting applications.
How long stock can be halted for ? Is there any max change in price before stock was halted and after? Thank you
1. ok - but that's true with any broker. 3. I guess you mean tick data (not 5 second data) - fair enough - that's handy. on the other hand I really have access to my monies much harded than before - and everything is more clumsy. One excuse is the Patriot Act but still IB could do much better. To make myself clear - I still think IB is among the best (that's why I still use them for big part of my trading) but the progress is slow. They are so good because they were great 5 years ago - not because they significantly improved since then.
dhpar, I'm sure you're right, so where are we all going to thats so much better? Gots to be a boatload of us all ready to jump ship, and you'll get all the referral bonuses! I'll bet IB's programming staff would be real sad to hear they've been working for 5 years and could have been laying around on the beach instead.