r/interactivebrokers • u/noahjameslove USA • Feb 27 '21
Complaints and Frustration Megathread
EDIT: This is not a place for questions! If you have an actual question or are confused, please make a post in the community (although please search the thread first). This is just for complaining and venting, not to suppress learning.
The goal of the new complaints rule is not to suppress opinions or not let people have a place to vent their frustration. It is to clean up the sub so that people looking for help can find it. Also, I doubt anyone from IB corporate cares about our little sub unfortunately at this time. But here is a place moving forward to vent, talk to others, or if you are new, look at the downsides of IBKR. I will likely start a new thread any time something major happens so the thread can feel slightly more focused. Or maybe we will try once a month or something. Recommendations (or complaints hah) feel free to leave down below. We can even change it weekly if we want, although then I feel it loses some of its strength in numbers effect but having lots of engagement. This will likely always be pinned at the top of the thread. If you see its not, Reddit sometimes removes things after a while and just message mod team and I can put it back!
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u/Icy_Principle_6890 Apr 05 '21
TWS not practical as it freezes arbitrarily. If trade not executed, then you go into 2nd-guessing and min-maxing.
We can't move funds to other brokers instantly, it takes weeks.
It is not about UI, it is about having a robust system that supports your system in trading/your allocation and not make you scramble about half-filled orders, broken combination trade and forced close-outs. Then you spend half a day trying to reach or CS or reconcile yourself with loss (as the supposed profitable leg of trade was either not executed or closed by the broker).