If you’re an IB user, you’re probably familiar with Trader Workstation’s (TWS) annoying nightly shutdowns.
I’ve been an IB customer forever, so until recently, I thought this was something you just had to live with.
If you wanted to trade the early pre-market starting at 4 am, you had to wake up and log into TWS first.
As some of you know, I’m an early riser, but not THAT early.
Somewhere along the way (not sure when), IB has added an option to control this behavior so that you only have to actually login once a week instead of daily.
In TWS, go to Global Configuration, then go to Lock and Exit.
You’ll see the configuration screen below. The default is Auto logoff, but if you enable the Auto restart option, TWS will survive the night and you’ll still be logged in the following morning.
Very useful (essential!) if you want to trade the pre-market.
I have a few users using software I’ve developed to trade automatically through DAS (including the short locates) and/or TWS.
If you’re interested in hearing more about the software, hit reply and let me know.
-Dave
