} Q: Is there any advantage to monitoring Ping time to the IB Server?
}
} My thought is, If communication time exceeds 5000 ms then suspend the
} trade invocation portion of the ATS until communication time delay is
} more reasonable.
}
} Your thoughts?
}
Some kind of verification of timely quotes is important. That's why
IB's lack of time-stamping is troubling. Perhaps if enough of us request
they add time stamps, they'll look into it.
Until IB adds some means of verification it seems the trader should
either do it manually, or have his software cross-check with another
data source.
Ping times don't tell you a whole lot -- unless the network connection
is really hosed. But automated system testing is generally a good idea.
Richard
