Interactive Brokers interface get worse

Investing / Brokers
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Am I the only one that think that IB is getting worse every day?

  • Their website is hiding the login form
  • The transactions done from the website are easy to use but lack information (cost? How much in taxes? )
  • The Wire transfer when the interface is in dark mode is very very bad! Some text is white-on-white!

Did I miss something?

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Cost over usability. Do the math how much time you lose compared to a competitor and then have much you save. Saving / hours = hourly wage for being annoyed

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Hey !
I use the web IB interface in white mode and I never experienced those kind of troubles.
Btu to me 2 “bad” things are:

  • this window which appears when I buy for let say 200USD of asset with 205USD available and which tells me that I have to settle more ; I don’t know how to estimate the correct amont needed.
  • I log in the IB and when the main page appears, it tells me that I’m offline and will not be able to buy/sell but I still able to see the content of my portfolio.
    Otherwise, It’s ok to me.
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With a margin account, an option is to first trade in USD and only then exchange CHF to USD. That way, you know exactly how much USD you need to exchange.

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Nope, I only log in from one device ever, and it still happens to me. Often it takes a few seconds until everything’s all right, but sometimes it takes another login so solve it.

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I personally don’t see the differences :stuck_out_tongue:

For doing my monthly operations with market orders, I don’t really care how it looks.

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I always found confusing to find the fees paid for a given trade. Does anybody have experience with this?

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Before you confirm a trade, you can do a preview and this will show you the estimated fees. I always found the estimation to be accurate. Otherwise, you should be able to see the fees in the activity statements.

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Yep, this is where you have to look. It looks like this (Trades section):

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This shows that I bought 1580 GBP at 1.25465 CHF/GBP, which cost me a total of 1982.35 CHF plus 1.84 CHF in commission. My only gripe with it is that for non-currency trades it doesn’t show the currency of the commission. But that is not too hard to figure out if you do the bookkeeping soon after the trade.

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Ah yes, thanks!
It is also visible in the trade tab in small print. But I had a 1.0 value (I only did small transactions) without any currency and I thought that could have also been a percentage

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This is what I’m talking about…

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And if I highlight:
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So basically they don’t show you some basic info if you work in dark mode.

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I teach you a neat trick: Always censor more than there is to censor :smiley:
It might be 99900.00 or 9900.00 or just 100.00. You’ll never know. eheh
…and it’s a deposit. It might be a lump sum or a daily deposit :smiley:

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I believe commissions charged are always in your main currency.

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No, I’ve had commissions in other currencies before. It’s probably dependent on the exchange you’re using.

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Trading commissions for stock transactions are charged in transaction currency.

There are some other fees like currency exchange ones (I think), which are charged in the base currency.

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