running 2 TWS on 2 computers at the same time

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alphahunter

Feels like this should have been covered somewhere, but I could not find an answer how to open 2 Trader Workstations.

I am getting a 2nd computer because the load - mostly from multiple booktraders simultaneously is causing lags and other issues that I think will be better spread over multiple CPUs.

Is it possible to open 2 TWS for my same account at the same time, or another way to have 2 logins at once?
 
I know you can do it. Before I moved to TradeHawk I used to do it with TWS. Individual account holders have the ability to add multiple users to their same IBKR account
 
VAtrader said:
I know you can do it. Before I moved to TradeHawk I used to do it with TWS. Individual account holders have the ability to add multiple users to their same IBKR account
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This. But it could be that you will be required to pay for market data subscription for each of these users.
 
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Are you sure you need to run two copies of TWS? Remember that any external programs can access TWS on another computer by specifying that computer's IP address.
 
DaveV said:
Are you sure you need to run two copies of TWS? Remember that any external programs can access TWS on another computer by specifying that computer's IP address.
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This is true. But the topic starter would then have to create/code his own user interface to display the charts etc. which he wishes to display on the second computer.
 
Dave/Hobby-
What I am actually trying to accomplish is to use 1 computer for trading- just IB TWS, and 1 computer for Excel + Bloomberg. However, I would need to be able to pull the real time data that I am subscribed to (on IB) into excel to run my sheets/analytics etc. I do not trade automated, but trade manually using lots of booktraders currently on TWS. The load together is too much (ever for 1 really good computer), which I have come to realize.

It sounds like I should be able to accomplish this based on what you 2 are referencing, yes? I am not much of a coder, just trader. Currently the TWS needs to be open on the same computer for the excel sheet to received data into excel.

Thanks.
 
alphahunter said:
Dave/Hobby-
What I am actually trying to accomplish is to use 1 computer for trading- just IB TWS, and 1 computer for Excel + Bloomberg. However, I would need to be able to pull the real time data that I am subscribed to (on IB) into excel to run my sheets/analytics etc. I do not trade automated, but trade manually using lots of booktraders currently on TWS. The load together is too much (ever for 1 really good computer), which I have come to realize.

It sounds like I should be able to accomplish this based on what you 2 are referencing, yes? I am not much of a coder, just trader. Currently the TWS needs to be open on the same computer for the excel sheet to received data into excel.

Thanks.
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This would certainly be possible.
Run TWS on computer A and have it download the data which you need to a shared drive.
Run Excel on computer B and have it load the data from the shared drive.
There will of course be some time delay and latency involved due to the read/write actions to the shared folder. You would need to analyze whether this is acceptable in your case. And somehow computer A needs to tell computer B that data files have been updated.
 
HobbyTrading said:
This would certainly be possible.
Run TWS on computer A and have it download the data which you need to a shared drive.
Run Excel on computer B and have it load the data from the shared drive.
There will of course be some time delay and latency involved due to the read/write actions to the shared folder. You would need to analyze whether this is acceptable in your case. And somehow computer A needs to tell computer B that data files have been updated.
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When you say "delay" would this imply like 1 second, or more than 5 seconds ? If the former I can see it working- I'm a bit doubtful that the writing reading would be fast enough.
 
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