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Date/Time: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:20:10 +0000
Post From: Not Urgent: Automated Trading through Interactive Brokers
| [2021-01-20 20:55:52] |
| Adam Schwartz - Posts: 81 |
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I will be starting automated trading through interactive brokers within the next couple of weeks and just wanted to clarify a few things. I have read documentation but just want to be sure. This is not an urgent request so feel free to reply whenever you have a spare moment. The automated trading is using a study created through ASCIL - there is nothing manual about it (entries or exits). I am using the study on two different time frames concurrently, but only on one symbol/product. I have two accounts with interactive brokers but I am not using two instances of TWS as both accounts can be accessed from the master login. 1)Do I need to use two instances of sierra chart (one for one timeframe and one for the other) and connect each instance to IB through data/trade service settings, also changing the second instance "Instance Client ID"? 2)How can I tell each instance of sierra which of the two IB accounts to send the trades to? Do I have to attach trade window to chart and select the account there or is there another way to do this? Since the strategy is fully automated, I wan't planning on having a trade window. 3)Might be a silly question, but I assume trades will only be sent as long as BOTH SC and TWS are running? This means leaving the computer on 24/7. 4) Lastly, I will still be using SC to look at other symbols that I manually trade. For obvious reasons, I prefer to use SC data feed. Even though I am using SC data feed, do I still have to obide by IB's backwards symbol methodology as I am connected to them through data/trade service settings? And the data is still from SC and not IB, right? Many thanks in advance for your assistance, A |