Very slow and interface freezes alot

    yeah I've had IB since

    Posted by matt on 21st of Feb 2019 at 11:03 am

    yeah I've had IB since probably the beginning when it came out 2000 or something.  cheap commissions but archaic platform, and lately it's very slow for me, I enter a symbol and hit enter and lately at times it sits there for 20 seconds and I wait for the symbol to come up to select it.  Iv'e missed trades waiting on that. Their charts suck of course.  IB is the best for shorting stocks as I've found they have shares when many brokers do not.  Of course trading futures and other markets IB is good as  you have a lot of flexibility.  If you are an options trader Think or Swim would be better. 

    for pure day trading stocks I've actually liked Etrade Pro , fast and good executions and I like their level 2, and my fills are better than IB.  Again that's just for pure day trading some stocks, I don't like it for options or futures or anything else. 

    I use Tradestation as well but they are very expensive and so it's more for the charts vs the trading. 

    again depends on what you are trying to do, what broker would work best for you

    Thanks for the info matt

    Posted by RP on 21st of Feb 2019 at 08:29 pm

    Thanks for the info matt i like etrade myself but always looking ..

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