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Its an issue of if you push TWS beyond the basics it simply doesn't hold up compared to other platforms. Get above a dozen charts and add in some indicators and it crumbles

I am already running the 64bit version and I have 32GB of system ram...makes no difference

A quote from IB support message directly "Unfortunately, with the number of windows and tools you have open at the same time, you will see a poor performance level. Java won't utilize more than 2 gigabytes of ram, so you won't really benefit much from having a computer with a lot of ram." TWS...

TWS uses its own bundle Java that comes with it...it doesn't use any other java installation. And you're wrong...talk to IB..they'll Tell you TWS has a memory allocation limit.

I know all about the memory settings. I have it at the max that TWS can use. Which is below the amount of ram I have in my system. I have 32gb. But tws is hard limited to only use a fraction of that.

It's limited to the amount of ram it can access. Amd apparently my configuration with a lot of charts open and 1 or 2 indicators per chart is too much "beyond what the software is capable of" one support person told me. We are authorized to have 100 simultaneous lines of data with a standard IB...

Still wont make TWS perform well...The software is limited by Java. Try to have more than a couple charts and indicators and the thing will just freeze for minutes at the open. Doesn't matter how much ram you have or what settings

IB doesn't seem to give a damn. Same issues...month after month...year after year. Its an advanced great platform in someways and straight falls on its ass in other simplistic ways. Oh...you're allowed to have 100 simultaneous lines of data...but if you want to have more than a handful of...

None of us have direct email contacts with the developers so dont have that opportunity.

TWS is such a joke. More issues today. Was told the other day by support. Try the "Stable" build. Nope!...Same BS there. And you know what happens? Nothing...I send screen grabs...documentation...I'd send videos if they had a way to watch them (answer...they cant, no direct files or links...

Like I told someone in a post the other day...I dont know what they're doing. Every day I see a new update downloaded and theres nothing new or improved. There a million little quality of life things they could quickly do to make a lot of people happy. But they just dont listen. They're...

TWS has so many little quality of life things that if implemented would make so many people happier. But as it stands now all I see are new TWS updates download and nothing changes. At best what happens is my platform fluctuates from somewhat ok stable to shit when a bad update comes...

Histogram on TWS is just one of the many broken things. I've called it out to them before...nothing

It was fine before in February/March when the market was really crazy. The volume now is less than it was then. So thats not an excuse. Its something on IB's end TWS will be fine and good for a bit...then they'll do some random updates in the background and things will get messed up. Im not...

My charts are essentially frozen for the first 30 sec to 2 min of the morning which is crap. I can see the level 2 changing and time and sales going by my charts just dont update

Charts have been buggy in the more recent versions of TWS...Beta builds anyway. A new bar should be forming but the chart is a couple seconds late in drawing it. So a new 1min bar should be appearing but doesn't show till 1:03 for example. Also the bars are slow to update as far as colors...

IB's Time and Sales is pretty bunk. 1. Theres a settings you can change so you dont just see a colored dot and instead the letters/numbers are red green or white. IB also handles it stupidly in that you only see green or red when a NEW uptick or downtick happens. Every trade that happens after...

That's not what he asked. He asked about "I noticed in some other platforms, it uses the number of shares that is in the order entry window"... He never references percentage based orders And there's a hack for tws to be able to cover or sell a percentage of a position. You use the flip...

Im confused...what in the world are you wanting? You want a hotkey or button to buy at the bid...ok...yes you can do that. But what the hell are you expecting/wanting for the quantity? You want TWS to guess an amount for you to buy? If you've imputed a number of shares in an order entry window...

For me last couple trading session at open my charts simply dont work/update...sometimes for 30 seconds or more. Once they never worked and had to restart and missed the opening action