Recent content by travis

Good news today. I still haven't rebooted IB Gateway and yet now the tickers columns all work perfectly fine: This issue might have something to do with having requested tickers too many times, although I never had any problems with tickers requests (I only have 16 symbols). What might...

Here's more information about the problem I am having (sometimes a few quotes work, sometimes none): If I reboot IB Gateway, everything works perfectly again, but I don't want to have to reboot it once a day, or this defeats the purpose of it.

I have the latest version, and, after running IB Gateway for a few days, in conjunction with excel DDE, I have a problem with the "tickers" requests. They work fine only if I have a relatively fresh IB Gateway session. After a few days, on the "tickers" sheet, High, Low and Close are not showing...

Although it's Thursday, I can already tell you the answer: it worked. I was there at 23:57 (US CT), when their servers were rebooting and IB Gateway got disconnected, and was attempting the first, second and third "logging on" or I forgot what term it uses. After a few attempts it re-logged...

Good news regarding my IB Gateway. After talking to dst, I realized I hadn't been using the latest IB TWS (and IB Gateway) version. I had 936 here and 932 on my server, whereas the latest version was 944.3. How stupid of me to come here and complain without making sure I had the latest...

OK, solved. Here they confirm that the "Application.OnTime TimeValue..." method only runs once. So it's just the next 5 PM and not all future instances of 5 PM. And they also explain how to execute a procedure at every future instance of 5 PM...

Here they say: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff196165(v=office.15).aspx My question is about this scope of the Application.OnTime method, which I use in my automated systems, where I am going from a daily schedule (starting them once a day) to a weekly schedule (starting them...

Yes, this all makes sense and thanks for the useful information. So, recapitulating, thanks to both of you for your help, and now I might either use TWS, if it doesn't cause me any problems by running for a week, or I might disable the Security Token feature, like I've done in the past, and use...

To answer your question and dst's private question ("do you see this right away or after some activity?"), here's some more information. I am using the application with a DDE exchange to excel, and the orders get sent fine, as I said. I see it all the time, as I've never seen it connected...

Hello fullautotrading, years after you suggested it to me, I have started using IB Gateway, which has the advantage that it can run unattended for a week (or longer, but I need a week) and doesn't have the auto-logoff feature. Everything works fine, with the "IB API login" version, but I have...

Damn, now we are in that awful situation we were in a year ago, so by all means "do not be happy with what you got". Now is the time to complain loudly. I didn't have your problem here yet, although my server is in the US, and I think yours is in Europe, so you're probably connected to the Swiss...

Yes, sure I get your points. However, like Manny says to Tony in Scarface, I will add: "Just remember, last year at this time we were in a much worse situation. I say be happy with what you got".

Yes, I see your point and realize the inconvenience IB is causing you, even though, for most of us, this is definitely not as bad as if it happened during a weekday, when the markets are open.