Interactive Brokers -- Stay away from 877

[nine]

This release is screwing up people's executions:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103525&perpage=6&pagenumber=2

 

[Trader333]

Thanks for this, I am always somewhat reluctant to upgrade to the latest release when they come along and will avoid upgrading until this issue is resolved.

Paul

 

[grantx]

Paul,

Would it be possible for a new customer to install the version you use rather than the latest version? Or would they insist on the latter?

Grant.

 

[Trader333]

Paul,

Would it be possible for a new customer to install the version you use rather than the latest version? Or would they insist on the latter?

Grant.

I don't actually know but based on the above it seems earlier versions are not available unless it has already been downloaded and saved somewhere on the PC.


Paul

 

[grantx]

Paul,

That shouldn't be a problem. Thank you.

Grant.

 

[nine]

The issue has been fixed in 873.4 (now released on the web).

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103525&perpage=6&pagenumber=8

You can run various versions by saving them in different directories. It works well. You can also optimize operation speed.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99981&perpage=6&pagenumber=5

The version I use is:

Run ( 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin\javaw.exe  -cp jts.jar;pluginsupport.jar;jcommon-1.0.0.jar;jfreechart-1.0.0.jar;jhall.jar;other.jar;rss.jar -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=false -client -Xss128k -Xms256m -Xmx256m -Xnoclassgc -XX:+ForceTimeHighResolution -XX:CompileThreshold=50 -XX:ThreadStackSize=192 -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods jclient/LoginFrame c:\jts', 'c:\Jts\JtsXweb' )

Note: This command line only works with Java 1.6 because it uses directx for drawing and the choice to remove -Xbatch lets my dual core do background recompiles on the idle core (thanks to rayl). Also the directory at the end of the line should point at the place you store your .jar's (probably c:\jts not jtsxweb which is one of mine).

Note2: The use of optimizations isn't an approved IB approach.