That would defeat the purpose of my getting 4k monitors and lessen my screen real estate. Not gonna do that. A trading program shouldn't tax a video card trying to push those pixels
IB TWS dragging target order on chart
- Thread starter bitang
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Glad to know it's not just me with the typing and missing keystrokes thing
There is a setting in TWS to enable/disable changing the price of an order by dragging the horizontal line in the chart. Could it be that by some coincidence this has been set to disabled?Hi,
Usually I readjust my target order on charts by dragging the target order with the mouse.
However recently TWS does not grabs the target order so I can not move it with the mouse.
It started from one day to the other.
TWS version 968 standalone,
at first on some of the charts, later on all the charts...
It still works with stop loss orders but not with target orders.
It's a real pain to readjust the order on the orderpanel...
Are there anyone else experiancing the same? Is it a new feature?
This video shows how to enable/disable chart trading:
thank you for your effort to help me,
unfortunately it does not cover how to enable/disable grabbing by mouse different types of horizontal lines.
but of course I will check the configuration panel again, so far I have not found.
I never thought this could be optional, taken granted that horizontal line grabbing is always on, at this time I don't know why would one disable it.
again, thank you for your time you took for answering
unfortunately it does not cover how to enable/disable grabbing by mouse different types of horizontal lines.
but of course I will check the configuration panel again, so far I have not found.
I never thought this could be optional, taken granted that horizontal line grabbing is always on, at this time I don't know why would one disable it.
again, thank you for your time you took for answering
If you click on the target or the stop, you can then use up or down arrow keys to move the order. However you must then click "update" or else have a hotkey for that.
You can also adjust mouse grab sensitivity in the app settings. A good quality mouse or trackball helps, too. Adjust your operating system mouse settings for optimum performance.
I don't think 4k resolution is really needed. YMMV.
You can also adjust mouse grab sensitivity in the app settings. A good quality mouse or trackball helps, too. Adjust your operating system mouse settings for optimum performance.
I don't think 4k resolution is really needed. YMMV.
Thank you for your reply,
the issue is that TWS nonrespnosive on clicking on the line of the target order,
while it is always responsive on clicking on the stoploss order's line.
further strange things:
- sometimes on some instruments or on different chart window, TWS responsive on clicking on the target order's line. (986 version)
- sometimes it is nonresponsive on a chart window on the target order's line, while on the same instrument but different chart window responsive on clicking on the target order's line (still 968 version)
- was rather unpredictable behaviour in the last days on 968 version, but started to behave unanimously on all the charts when yesterday upgraded to 976.2 (always nonresponsive on target order but always responsive on stoploss)
- prevously upgraded to 976, but seeing how terrible it is, backported to the oldest version I have. after backport I built up my environement from a blank settings file. From then on I always save and store on a distinct location from the jts folder my settings files of the different versions. it was months ago.
- yestarday evening I backported again to 968, restored the settings file from my archive, the issue is gone momentarily.
I hope the older versions are usable for endless times...
the issue is that TWS nonrespnosive on clicking on the line of the target order,
while it is always responsive on clicking on the stoploss order's line.
further strange things:
- sometimes on some instruments or on different chart window, TWS responsive on clicking on the target order's line. (986 version)
- sometimes it is nonresponsive on a chart window on the target order's line, while on the same instrument but different chart window responsive on clicking on the target order's line (still 968 version)
- was rather unpredictable behaviour in the last days on 968 version, but started to behave unanimously on all the charts when yesterday upgraded to 976.2 (always nonresponsive on target order but always responsive on stoploss)
- prevously upgraded to 976, but seeing how terrible it is, backported to the oldest version I have. after backport I built up my environement from a blank settings file. From then on I always save and store on a distinct location from the jts folder my settings files of the different versions. it was months ago.
- yestarday evening I backported again to 968, restored the settings file from my archive, the issue is gone momentarily.
I hope the older versions are usable for endless times...
I don't trust dragging order "lines" on charts. Maybe there's a setting I'm missing... but often times the "scale" of the chart along the y-axis changes while I'm in the middle of dragging -- which makes it unnerving to actually release the mouse button. I would not recommend doing this for a security that wasn't highly liquid with a tight bid/ask spread.