Re: TWS Closing
Hello Jürgen, thanks for your thoughts.
I am in Australia, and connect to the Hong Kong server. I have NBN internet fibre direct to the home, then cable to the PC. It was wireless, but I changed
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Kevin
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#49725
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Re: TWS Closing
Nothing is impossible, but I cannot think of any reason why TWS would handle connection loss with IBKR any different or better than IBGW. The code is absolutely identical (65,817 identical class and
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Jürgen Reinold
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#49724
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How to automatically accept (or disable) the paper trading notification?
I'm opening TWS using IBC via Task Scheduler.
I'm paper trading while testing my strategy.
TSI has an automatic notification pop up when I log in to remind me that I'm paper trading.
Unless this
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Bryce Turner
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#49723
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Re: TWS Closing
I recently experienced the exact same problem as Yilin Qin described, however it is with IB Gateway, not TWS. I ended up changing from IB Gateway to TWS (reluctantly).
As Yilin rightly pointed out,
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Kevin
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#49722
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Re: Duplicate Order ID
Ok, I’ll take your word for the ‘whatif’ aspect.
If I use the contract parameters you specify in my platform, it works fine. If it doesn’t work for you, you must get an error message
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Richard L King
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#49720
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Re: TWS Closing
Hi,
This may be related to Mike's case. It happens during the reboot in
Jürgen's post. But IBKR TWS server remain offline long enough during
midnight reboot. What happens to the TWS workstation is
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Y Q
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#49719
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Re: Duplicate Order ID
Hello Richard,
you can use this object with this parameters without any problems when you set the *".whatIf = 1* " because it gives you only information back like your margin conditions and your
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Metrodus79
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#49718
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
Yes could be FIX CTCI as that lists in the comparison table it does not need user auth.
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Bart D
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#49717
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Re: Duplicate Order ID
Hello Jürgen,
thanks for the fast reply again. I will test this at the weekend to get the contract infos from IBApi.EClient.reqContractDetails and give my result here.
Thanks a lot again for this
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Metrodus79
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#49716
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Horizontal / Vertical Trendline on IB Charts using API
Hello
Long time lurker & my first post here. I must say this group is a wealth of knowledge and I really appreciate all the insights / knowledge I have gained browsing. Still early in my IB API
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Teak
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#49715
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
IBKR has several standard and custom integration options for institutions and large clients and you can even co-locate your servers with them. Some of the more common options are discussed here (
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Jürgen Reinold
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#49714
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
Thank you for the info.
There are some websites that claim they can connect to an IB account without PW/2FA, by providing a photoID+IB account#+form signed by the account holder, and then the
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Bart D
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#49713
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Re: TWS Closing
Are you getting any error messages, such as code 1100 before TWS closes?
Any clues in the TWS logs?
Could there be network disruptions between TWS and IBKR (such as router/modem restarts, DHCP IP
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Jürgen Reinold
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#49712
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
Just to add to what Jürgen said, you can get IBC from its GitHub repository at:
https://github.com/IbcAlpha/IBC
Richard
Sent: 29 July 2022 18:27
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TWS
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Richard L King
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#49711
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Re: Duplicate Order ID
Robert
You have set .auxPrice = 1 for the DAX contract. The auxPrice field is the trigger price for your stop order. For EUR.USD that is a possible value since the current price for this contract
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Richard L King
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#49710
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
We don't have a need for "other users" to connect to our back-end and it would probably be quite a challenge to make that secure.
While each TWS/IBGW instance can only log into one account, that can
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Jürgen Reinold
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#49709
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Re: Duplicate Order ID
Glad the duplicate order is gone now, Robert.
I was not suggesting a multi-threaded design to avoid "sleep" between requests and responses. Just an event-oriented design. I am not a VBA/Excel macro
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Jürgen Reinold
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#49708
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
Jurgen, I totally agree with your assessment about the need for 2FA.
One question: is your system allowing other users to connect to your backend? If so how do you handle them entering their PW/2FA
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Bart D
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#49707
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
Not sure why you even want to opt out of 2FA for login. Remember, we are talking about brokerage accounts with real money and possibly significant balances. Simple password-only authentication is way
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Jürgen Reinold
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#49706
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Re: opt out from: Secure Login required for trading
I think being forced to use 2FA for logging in to TWS is coming to North
America as well.
I use IB through another introducing broker, and they sent an email last
week stating that due to a policy
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Jimmy
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#49705
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