IBKR Lite Lags...

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bigmoose

Folks just starting to get back after a long illness. I had them change my IB account over to Lite during recovery. I started playing with it today and the lags during trading hours are krazy. 4 or 5 seconds to manipulate any feature on the charts.

Since I've been away so long is this the normal behaviour or Lite, as in being throttled, or has a problem crept in on my end?

Outside of NYSE trading hours it is as fast as I remember on the paid plans.
 
This is the feature that shook me out of IB long time ago. They have everything great except when it matters their software would throw up lags and with large positions it cost me so many times
 
Thanks, I have no problem going back to paid plans. Just working on getting back into the groove after more than a year away... Trying to discern if this is a IBRKRLITE problem, or a IB problem, or something choking on my end of the equation.

Maxinger how bad are the lags that you are seeing? Less than a second, or 4 or 5 seconds?
 
bigmoose said:
Thanks, I have no problem going back to paid plans. Just working on getting back into the groove after more than a year away... Trying to discern if this is a IBRKRLITE problem, or a IB problem, or something choking on my end of the equation.

Maxinger how bad are the lags that you are seeing? Less than a second, or 4 or 5 seconds?
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I use Esignal.
during the European session,
the lag could be in terms of minutes (due to the Ukraine war thing).
anything > 0.5 sec is totally not acceptable for day trading.
lately, it is ok.

I have experienced a lag of as much as 20 to 30 minutes during the early US session when there were very major / violent US related news/events.
such a thing is not so common but it could be very frustrating when it happened.

I think it got to do with the
UDP Protocol (very fast!! super amazing!!!)
TCP Protocol (very slow!!! antique technology?!?! the software engineers ought to be shot !!! )
thing but I haven't explored further.
 
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I wanted to update this in case anyone else was having the problem. I opened a support ticket and here is some advice:
The TWS performance does not differ when using either of the account type; IBKR Pro or IBKR Lite.
...In the meantime, please try the steps given below and it should help resolve the slowness of TWS.
Allocating more memory to TWS:
1-Mosaic view: Go to Files > Global Configuration >General > Memory Allocations (in MB) > Please make it 2048 > Apply> Okay.
2-Classic view: Go to Edit> Global Configuration >General > Memory Allocations (in MB) > Please make it 2048 > Apply> Okay.
1. We have three (3) Production Builds of Trader workstation (TWS). Therefore I recommend you test Stable and Beta (considering you are using the Latest version) and check if the behavior persists in all of them.
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My memory allocation was low, around 700. Changing it to 2048 did not fix the lag.

Changing from "latest" build to "stable" build DID fix the lag problem. Everything back to normal! Horray!
 
bigmoose said:
I wanted to update this in case anyone else was having the problem. I opened a support ticket and here is some advice:


My memory allocation was low, around 700. Changing it to 2048 did not fix the lag.

Changing from "latest" build to "stable" build DID fix the lag problem. Everything back to normal! Horray!
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well. lately, the traffic is not very hot ;
My charting software is working fine because the traffic is not heavy.


monitor your IB thing when the traffic is very hot and see if there is any improvement.

based on my past few decades of experience, there is no solution unless you
pay for a trading desk in a trading house, specialized high-speed trading platform ...
and it will cost > $1.5 k / mth.
 
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