I would suggest you contact support or provide more details since Tradestation has very reliable software and is used by many many traders, if this would be just another regular software glitch it would be affecting other people as well and there would be more complaints online. Not saying it is impossible, but just contact support, send them your platform log file and they be able to figure out what went wrong.
Can you have an account with both TradeStation Global *AND* Interactive Brokers? Might be interesting to have both to compare platforms.
Ofocurse you can. Open another seperate IB account (will differnet user and password for log in ) and link just one of your IB account with Tradestation Global.
It's not that it freezes. It's that you have hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of limit orders ahead of you at any given market price at market open. In the market it is first come first serve with open limit orders at any set price. Market orders will be behind all of them to get filled assuming the price hasn't bounced to another in the price range you are stuck behind. At market open you have hedge funds and HFT's unloading a tumult of buy and sell limit orders via algos which is why the market is so extremely volatile in the first 30 minutes. It isn't the platform freezing, it's the orders ahead of you being executed before your market order. If you had a limit order set at that price before the funds you would be filled immediately and ahead of them. It doesn't matter how capable your computer is, it doesn't trump the rules of the market. Since I trade market opens too, and put in limit orders that are filled immediately ALSO using Tradestation, I can confirm it is not the software.
Are you sure? I know IB themselves say you can not have two different accounts with them. (At least, not under the same name). Theoretically you could do one under someone else's name (partner), and log-in for them, but I did not mean to do that.
This doesn't make any sense, i never had any issues opening trades in the first 30 minutes. Not even the first seconds when the tsunami of first orders are released. A market order should never not execute for 30 minutes, not even a few seconds. A market order should execute in a fraction of a second, depending on your connection, at whatever the price is at the moment your order arrives at the exchange. Something else is going on here but that still could be 101 different things.
I never stated it froze for 30 minutes. Nor did the person I replied to. I stated the first 30 minutes were extremely volatile. The first 30 seconds are insanely volatile. That is where the freezing commences. The system is unloading a shitload of buy and sell orders in the order they were received.
If you see lot of brokers have "power of attonerny form" which let your wife trade you account. if you want to have separate user and password , then you need to process new application and you will get new account. But you can chat with IB, i remeber an agent told me it can be done
Your reply suggested his orders where stuck in the cue behind other orders for 30 minutes, which simply isn't true, that doesn't make any sense at all. If one tries to open a trade with a market order it should execute almost immediately, no matter the time or how busy the market is.
No, you perceived my reply that way. I didn't make you perceive it that way. That's just how you perceived it. Nowhere did I state what you stated. You just stated it and are now blaming me for how you misconstrued it. Every point extended from that misconception is an error on your part, not mine. My reply was simply an explanation of how the market works, and why. The emphasized part of your quote is based on how you feel things should happen contrary to how they actually work. Market orders still take a backseat to limit orders, and at market open millions of shares are sitting in queue to be executed ahead of market orders.