IB API disables TWS UI?

I'm in my account and watching the Taiwan market trade using IB's own charts, which are pretty lame but I don't need incredibly fancy charting for my strat. I haven't had the guts to put on a trade though, for two main reasons:

1. I don't want to get stuck in a trade... if the external socket isn't working what else is going to go wrong?

2. Since I know guys like Kiwi aren't trading tonight there won't be anyone to move the market from my entry to my profit target. :-)

The second comment is a joke, but looking at the DOM it looks a little thinner than normal. I wonder how much of the STW volume flows through IB?
 
Quote from stock777:

Just checked. My TWS connected to Quotetracker seems ok, as IB site is up.

Just tried quotetracker with my TWS and it is still freezing.
 
Quote from taodr:

TWS is frozen but both Ensign and Quotetracker charts are updating data. Weird !

Yes, that is what I'm seeing here with Buttontrader too. BT will update (no backfill) but TWS frozen. I have to kill TWS via task manager.
 
Yup, same problem here. After my software connects with TWS, TWS just freezes, and I have to force kill TWS through task manager.
 
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