Just logged back in 1715 et, worked fine.
What's the status of your SierraChart situation?
Being that there's no backfill, just staying connected during session times and doing reboots etc during off hours. Fortunately, daytrading fast charts minimized the issue when the big pop-quiz happened lol.
Redonkulous.
What's your plan?
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A few hours later, I was able to start IB. Although I also created ticket with IB, perhaps IB knew they were having a problem, & it in a couple of hours it was fixed.
Again, I assume why IB on my trading computer was fine, but my notebook could not restart, because I had configured IB programs on each computer, to always check & if necessary, download new version prior to login. It was the past several months that I changed from just keeping the current version, until I manually download the new one, to avoid issues such as yest afternoon.
Re my Sierra issue: despite several back-and-forth postings with Sierra support board, they did not help; but later I solved the problem. For some reason, from one Sierra "disconnect," again about 4:15 pm each afternoon to the next morning, on just 3 - 4 future symbols, there was an option that went to NO, which I always had as YES, related to incorporating data from overnight. Apparently that YES also will backfill from when I start Sierra about 5 am, using data from 6 pm prior night.
Why Sierra support did not query if those options were all set to YES, I can't explain. Still, it may have been a bug in their program, as I had to download their newest version, in order to adapt to the change in IB exchange ID. (IB changed GLOBEX ID to just CME.)
Mark, re CQG, I used them for several years, & preferred their ladder / BookTrader vs IB, but I always had IB account, order entry, & Sierra charts, also open, as a backup, for the many times I could not place an order via CQG. CQG, whether downtime, change in features, etc, was no more stable than IB. That may have changed over last time I used CQG, about 7 years ago.
Whether IB, CQG, or any of the dozen of other platforms I've used over many years, I never understood why they do not send a text, or e-mail to all users, that they are having problems. There have been times where IB is down, & active discussion on this site about issues, but going to IB "System Status" page has no indication. Just poor customer service /tech support, but seems universal.
