Using TWSStart to keep IB TWS open

March 16th, 2012, 05:56 AM

Xyzzy

I stumbled across this old thread. I just wanted to give a "+1" for TWSStart, in case anyone else does the same.

I've been running an autotrading strategy with MultiCharts for a month, and TWSStart has been great at keeping TWS up and running. It's a one-trick pony -- if TWS shuts down, it restarts TWS and logs you back in automatically.

I had one hiccup with installation, and I emailed the developer. He was very friendly and even issued a patch within a day due to an unusual problem that I was having -- that's amazing support for a freeware/donation-ware program. Since that time, it's worked flawlessly. (He got a modest donation from me -- well worth it, in my opinion.)

Totaly agree,

Same for me.
I also had a little glitch when IB changed TWS version and the developper did resolve the problem quickly. I had also given a donation He wrote me that I was the first of the year at that time.

Happy trading day

MT

April 5th, 2012, 08:37 AM

Thanks for mentioning Alt SDH 1, that seems to have fixed the restart problem for me.

Another question .. how do i get NinjaTrader to restart now? When IB/TWS closes, i get a message from Ninja that we lost connection, but don't see any way to restart it.

Using TWSStart to keep IB TWS open

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Using TWSStart to keep IB TWS open