Looking for a way to automate a system on Interactive Brokers

[remoteControl]

i want to see him overcome the auto logout and let's go from there. also ib has snapshot quotes which is a little different than real time data.

Not sure what strikes you as so impossible about this, sounds straightforward and simple to me. As for auto logout, the gateway is the answer.

@Timetwister , let me know if you need help in a PM

 

[Timetwister]

I've been taking 4:00pm ET as the close, and then working the signals through 4:15. Works pretty sweet.

I sent you a message.

let me know if you need help in a PM

I sent you a message too.

 

[HobbyTrading]

It seems like a relatively simple strategy, the only "external" information would be the market days until expiration, considering the software itself can't get that from Interactive Brokers. So I'd manually add that data, while the software would get from IB those futures and prices index.

This is not necessary, you don't need to to this manually. There is a way in IB's API to get the expiry date of a futures contract. Knowing the expiry date, and today's date, your software can calculate the number of days remaining. No manual action required.