Entering symbols into TWS

[DTK]

Does anyone know a quick way to enter symbols into IB's TWS?
Typing in my watchlists every morning is getting quite tedious. (I know I'm really lazy)

Perhaps importing a list or altering a TWS file?

Thanks and apologies if this has been covered in a previous thread.

-DTK

 

[Bob111]

Quote from DTK:

Does anyone know a quick way to enter symbols into IB's TWS?
Typing in my watchlists every morning is getting quite tedious. (I know I'm really lazy)

Perhaps importing a list or altering a TWS file?

Thanks and apologies if this has been covered in a previous thread.

-DTK

basket order? create your own program, which will get list from a file or something and request data from TWS?

 

[alanm]

"Quick Stock Entry" makes it as easy as just typing in the symbol and pressing <ENTER>, assuming you want to use the same route (SMART) for each. Search for it in the IB manual.

You can manually edit the jts.pg file, but it stores a key value, not the symbol itself, so you'd have to create a map of known key values against symbols, write something to look up your symbols and spit out the key values, hope they don't change (they don't seem to), etc.