Yes exactly, TWS gets a lot of hate but it has great functionality specially for a free software. If they had better performance I am pretty sure they will see a surge in users.
Just by curiosity if you don't mind. What are you PC specs?
Anyone using a high end PC and still experiences slowness with TWS
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Yes exactly, TWS gets a lot of hate but it has great functionality specially for a free software. If they had better performance I am pretty sure they will see a surge in users.
Just by curiosity if you don't mind. What are you PC specs?
core i7 6700 @3.4ghz
32GB ram
SSD for my C drive
1070 graphics card
Its not a hardware issue...its a software coupled with a server side data throttling issue that limits either the amount or speed of data being fetched.
I'll have several linked charts of the same ticker on different time frames...and bullshit will happen like the 1min will load fine along with the 5 and 15, but the daily will lag or not load at all...or sometimes only one time frame will load and none of the others will...or some other combination...simply makes no sense other than a software/server issue.
32GB ram
SSD for my C drive
1070 graphics card
Its not a hardware issue...its a software coupled with a server side data throttling issue that limits either the amount or speed of data being fetched.
I'll have several linked charts of the same ticker on different time frames...and bullshit will happen like the 1min will load fine along with the 5 and 15, but the daily will lag or not load at all...or sometimes only one time frame will load and none of the others will...or some other combination...simply makes no sense other than a software/server issue.
Yes exactly this is what I get, will load on certain timeframes and others not. Also some stocks like SRNE, APPS, the charts won't load unless you change the timeframe on the charts..
Now I am not sure if I upgrade my PC or not.. maybe if you get a super powerful PC it will resolve things?
Im almost a hundred percent sure it wont...not for me anyway....If I can watch and stream 4k video fine or play some video games with decent graphics fine I should be able to load up some freaking charts fine... Its not a hardware issue.
loool... true that
Roca, have you tried to use only classic TWS?
In other terms at the bottom left of classic TWS just close Mosaic, or any other layouts or modules. The picture is from www.interactivebrokers.com about TWS Configuration Webinar notes. Then add your charts or whatever. Is it faster?
In other terms at the bottom left of classic TWS just close Mosaic, or any other layouts or modules. The picture is from www.interactivebrokers.com about TWS Configuration Webinar notes. Then add your charts or whatever. Is it faster?
Use another charting program that can send orders to IB or just use another charting program and enter orders on IB.
Roca, have you tried to use only classic TWS?
In other terms at the bottom left of classic TWS just close Mosaic, or any other layouts or modules. The picture is from www.interactivebrokers.com about TWS Configuration Webinar notes. Then add your charts or whatever. Is it faster?
No I never tried the Classic. I will try it. Thanks for pointing it out!
Have you tried it yourself?
This is a response I got from a person:
I have an Asus rog strix g17 i7-10750 with the rtx 2060. It runs pretty smooth for me, I think the part that slows me down is my poor internet connection. I am also running 2 extra monitors ( 3 in total)
Everything loads instantly. I have 3 monitors going at once, one screen has four tickers in a 5 min time frame, another screen has 2 tickets split down the middle 2 min and 5 min, and then the centre screen as 2 tickets as well along with all of the performance details and order entry. I have extremely slow internet and it causes latency problems but it’s easily fixable. But everything is lightening fast as long as my internet is having a good day. ( I live in the middle of nowhere so I don’t have the choice of high speed connections)
And this is from another person:
Ryzen 5 3600, nvidia rtx 2070S, 16 GB medium speed ram, a fast ssd. Dont remember the exact details on ram ssd speed but its a gaiming pc. No lag on tws. Loads fast, windows change fast, chart is smooth. Only whenbit comes to the data they provide might some time to load thats it.
So I guess maybe a very powerful pc can solve it unless these 2 are lucky
Do a clean install of Windows and do a rebuild of your TWS XML file. The XML file is the :config: for your TWS setup. Start with the minimum of charts. Then you have a baseline.
The XML file get bigger and bogged down after it changes a lot. My xml file was 7kb and reduced it to 3.5 kb and there was a good improvement.
Running i7-8750H, Evo 970 Pro SSD and RTX2070. If you check the resource monitor, CPU speed is not the bottleneck enough to warrant a new CPU. Just about any dedicated GPU works and integrated ones too. SSD always helps on booting anything.
Bottom line, the issue is more your setup-config of TWS and stale Win 10 install, not the hardware. Sure a new machine will help, but that is also a clean Win10 and TWS install which would probably account for a large portion of the improvement.
The XML file get bigger and bogged down after it changes a lot. My xml file was 7kb and reduced it to 3.5 kb and there was a good improvement.
Running i7-8750H, Evo 970 Pro SSD and RTX2070. If you check the resource monitor, CPU speed is not the bottleneck enough to warrant a new CPU. Just about any dedicated GPU works and integrated ones too. SSD always helps on booting anything.
Bottom line, the issue is more your setup-config of TWS and stale Win 10 install, not the hardware. Sure a new machine will help, but that is also a clean Win10 and TWS install which would probably account for a large portion of the improvement.