How many times do you restart IB TWS per day?
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865 had some issues with quotes freezing. I went back to 864 and I'm still there. I don't know if you can anymore, you might need to go to 867 but stay away from 865.
Here is a useful hint.
Years ago, when TWS was much less reliable and stable than currently, I would sometimes need to restart TWS in order to remove a magenta color-coded order, or to correct some other condition. This was a very time consuming and disruptive process, so I suggested to IB that they can and should provide some way to invoke this clearing procedure from within TWS, as a function of TWS, which can be performed without a restart of TWS. They agreed, and then provided this functionality as a hot key. I just press <CTRL><ALT>R, and it resets the TWS, thereby clearing out most magenta orders and other error conditions, without any need for a restart. This was extremely useful, for a time, but now I hardly ever use it, because TWS has become so stable and reliable that I haven't needed it. I can trade a little more confidently, knowing that if I do need to reset TWS, and I can do it with a hot key instead of by a restart.
My suggestion is that the next time you have a situation in which you think you need to restart TWS, first try this hotkey, and see if it solves your problem more easily and quickly.
Years ago, when TWS was much less reliable and stable than currently, I would sometimes need to restart TWS in order to remove a magenta color-coded order, or to correct some other condition. This was a very time consuming and disruptive process, so I suggested to IB that they can and should provide some way to invoke this clearing procedure from within TWS, as a function of TWS, which can be performed without a restart of TWS. They agreed, and then provided this functionality as a hot key. I just press <CTRL><ALT>R, and it resets the TWS, thereby clearing out most magenta orders and other error conditions, without any need for a restart. This was extremely useful, for a time, but now I hardly ever use it, because TWS has become so stable and reliable that I haven't needed it. I can trade a little more confidently, knowing that if I do need to reset TWS, and I can do it with a hot key instead of by a restart.
My suggestion is that the next time you have a situation in which you think you need to restart TWS, first try this hotkey, and see if it solves your problem more easily and quickly.
hi. what is the name of this function?thanks
NOTICE: A technical problem with EliteTrader prevented my posting from appearing correctly. You access the hotkey by typing ctrl-alt-R. The punctuation symbols I used, in order to describe this keying, prevented the ctrl and alt parts of the keying from appearing in my post. So I repeat: you type ctrl-alt-R, not just merely R.
You do not configure this hotkey, the way you configure other hotkeys. This hotkey comes pre-configured and cannot be modified. This hotkey does not appear in the hotkey configuration screens. This is a special hotkey which cannot be modified by the user. Try it!
I do not believe IB has ever publicly named, or even documented, this feature. I would think an appropriate name for the function would be "reset", because that is what it does, and because they did use a hotkey involving the letter R.
Make sure Javaw.exe is running at REAL-TIME priority. I have a Java app and that's what I use.
Best to get this program to insure it stays that way everytime you restart TWS:
http://www.prioritymaster.com
This program also effectively LOWERS all other non-essential processes / programs.
I haven't had it lock up, but I only use the standard trading window, no DOM or charts or anything. Which windows do you use?
I use it from a browser - actually, it hands the file off to Java's JNLP, which launches it in a separate process.
Occasionally, when it loses network connectivity, it freezes for a few seconds (and the borders between lines and columns change to red), but when it gets connectivity back everything is back to normal (except all non-active order lines get erased, sigh.)
I use it from a browser - actually, it hands the file off to Java's JNLP, which launches it in a separate process.
Occasionally, when it loses network connectivity, it freezes for a few seconds (and the borders between lines and columns change to red), but when it gets connectivity back everything is back to normal (except all non-active order lines get erased, sigh.)