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[SaidBitar]

one more thing try using firefox or google chrome they are much faster than IE.

[JulianCohen]

This is a great idea. One I’m sure I will be using in the future so I’m very interested to see how your tests go Nick.

[JulianCohen]

Nick one question. Why not have a desktop/laptop at home that is running everything and log into it with GotomyPC or something like that. Effectively your own VPS. Only problem would be turning it on if something goes wrong I guess.

[Nick Radge]

I’ve not heard of that, but if something went wrong, say the internet dropped out and I was overseas, then I’m stuffed. At least on the external VPS I can access anytime anywhere.

That said, I’ll look into it more. Thanks.

[TrentRothall]

You can also connect via a ipad if you didn’t have your laptop or another computer.

[Nick Radge]

I’d be more concerned about the computer at home…not access remotely.

[Anonymous]

Today I had 20 positions and one exit, so space for 1 new trade out of 151 orders. I set the orders and waited to see what would happen at the open. This is running on the VPS.
When I looked at 25 seconds into the session. 1 order filled and 150 cancelled. I guess that means the communication between VPS, TWS, API (however it goes) works ok.

The other day I had the same situation, space for one new trade out of 100 plus orders, so I didn’t do anything. I made the choice it would be neither here nor there, the market was set to gap on the open and I probably would have got filled on a few and left to the API to sort it out. (As a side note I don’t feel there was a lack of discipline in following the rules, it was a choice based on 1 order that I didn’t think would make a significant difference, if anyone thinks otherwise I would be interested to hear)

Today I placed the orders more as a test to see the API in action, works like a charm.

[Nick Radge]

My VPS ran a treat last night.

[JulianCohen]

Did you go with Hostwinds in the end? I’m guessing the problem with the API was running them both from the same drive?

[Nick Radge]

Hostwinds so far is all I have tested.

No issues running two sets of BatchTrader on the same drive.

[JulianCohen]

How did you handle software updates? Did you just disable it and run it once a week?

[Nick Radge]

Well, if its nit one problem, its another.

TWS somehow logged off last night and now I can’t log in to see what the outcome was. Both API’s attempted to reconnect but it looks like TWS was closed down for some reason.

Strange, because its the same setting as on my laptop which do not get closed so it must be some function in the API.

Julian – I was able to change the update setting in the usual way.

[Anonymous]

Nick Radge wrote:

Strange, because its the same setting as on my laptop which do not get closed so it must be some function in the API…

what timezone does the following setting use? timezone of the local computer it is running on is texan time for a hostwinds server?

[Nick Radge]

I’m sure that’s the issue Darryl but I’m trying to figure out what time is being read by TWS.

I have just opened up my VPS again and yet again, for the second week running, its defaulted the desktop time to US Eastern.

Maybe I leave it on that and see what transpires.

[JulianCohen]

Following with active interest. I set up a Hostwinds server yesterday. Took a bit of fiddling but I think I have it sorted now.

Very interested to see how TWS is reading the time zones for you. When I was in Abu Dhabi recently and traded from there, I kept the Windows machine on Sydney time zone and TWS shut down after the close of the ASX as I expected it to.

If the Texan machines keep defaulting back to their own time zone it might be better to configure the TWS on that machine for that time zone and keep it that way.

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