"i hear options trigger TWS pop-ups so i can't have a
true program trading platform in place :("
Hi Jason. You may know this, but for others reading the above, it's
the option exchanges that don't allow automated option trading - IB
is just following their rules.
With respect to Java, I bet you actually get a lot of us avoiding it
just because of the limitations we see in the Java-based TWS. In
other words, you can get an immediate edge over TWS just by not using
Java (at the cost of cross-platform potential).