Disliked{quote} Stock data is free -- I don't even know how you could unsubscribe to it, but anyway, the problem isn't a data spike, it is a 2:1 stock split (i.e. twice the shares worth half the price). Standard practice is to adjust all historical data to reflect the new price but Interactive Brokers have failed to do so in this one case while other stocks (such as the more recent 7:1 Apple split or the much older CCT split from last year) have had their historical prices updated correctly. On the other hand, Google is hardly an unknown stock and certainly...Ignored
Second, for the trend line, yup they do get saved even when you close the entire TWS without saving the chart. When you re-open TWS and log in and you open a brand new chart of that same security, the chart opens with that drawn trend line still there. But then again, I don't know if this applies to stock at least for Forex pairs it does retain the trend lines.
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