Best time to restart IB Gateway ?

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Daniel.a

Which time have you found is the best to set you Ib gateway to restart everyday ?
I am after finding best stability, some IB reps is saying sometime during the internal resest times 23:45 - 00:45 ET.. and some say, close to but after for example 1am..

Opinions and experiences ?
 
My automated trading system is not trading 24 hours per day, so I restart Gateway during a period that I’m not using it. In my case I start it on Sunday evening and let Gateway restart itself every morning at around 9:45AM (SE Asia time zone) as I’m not trading that early in the morning. I let it run until Saturday morning. I don’t recall that Gateway ever crashed, requiring manual intervention, during the week.
 
Daniel.a said:
Which time have you found is the best to set you Ib gateway to restart everyday ?
I am after finding best stability, some IB reps is saying sometime during the internal resest times 23:45 - 00:45 ET.. and some say, close to but after for example 1am..

Opinions and experiences ?
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23h45, which is the default time proposed.
I've been using IBGw with this reset time for years.
 
GaryBtrader said:
I recommend you set up the gateway to auto restart (go to Configure -> Lock and Exit -> Auto restart). This way you only need to re-login once per week on the weekend.

I've been using a restart time of 11:45pm and it has worked fine.
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This is the way. +1 to Gary's comment
 
QQ for everybody how do you guys do the restart if IBKR is enforcing that 2FA?

For me, my current setup is manual. I have a one-click job on my cloud VM that restarts my entire Gateway and also my trading bot. (But it's manual, everyday when I get to my desk I have to restart it manually so I can do the 2FA).
 
The intention for this thread was to discuss thoughts and experiences picking a time for the restart of the api gateway that provides greatest stability...
 
Presently, I have TWS auto-logoff set to 17:01, one minute after the futures market closes. Then I log on at 18:00. A real pain. I haven't tried the IB Gateway. Perhaps, I should try it if the information in this thread is still valid.
 
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