Replies to post #207569 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Y worry Murray]

Lee, that happened to me when I had too many securities listed in TWS. I seems it can't handle it and it corrupts taking wierd and expensive actions!

Murray

[Newly2b]

Lee, I thought you were kidding! Unlikely anyone hacking into your account to trade the same thing you are trading.

Often when you post here your msgs. appear in duplicate sometimes triplicate. Could it be your order entry doubled or tripled and you didn't notice? Seems odd. I've never had any problems like that with IB. Sounds more like something wrong with your computer/keyboard. Did you talk to IB about it?

Newly

[lvadm]

Lee,

Let me guess what may happened based on my several years experience with IB. If sometime yesterday you placed an order to buy NQs, and later cancelled it, your cancellation probably was not executed, although TWS confirmed it. As a result, you have a pending (or already executed) order and there is no way to know about it because you can not see it on TWS. Such things happened several times to me. Last time it happened somewhat a month ago, and right now I am in the midst of filing complaints against IB because in my case it caused a significant loss (to make things worse, trying to enter an unreported trade, IB placed 8 (EIGHT) wrong option trades manually on my account, badly misbalancing it each time, violating margin and triggering automatic transaction to restore margin. The whole ordeal happened during option expiration week and lasted two days). It’s scary, because it happened more than once, and I moved two out of three accounts from IB, but I still use it for option trading because they are good for option trading (as long as everything works well), but they are not good at all, when things go wrong.

[zeb]

Sounds like you got your answer, did you call IB and voice your complaint?
On your computer issued do you have a firewall-like Zone Alarm?