Ok, here are some points from me: 1. JBT in its current state *is* fully automated. I start it up in the morning, and let it trade all day long.
2. There is an "experimental" branch of JBT which contains the "command line JBT" feature, among other things: http://code.google.com/p/jbooktrader/source/browse/#svn/tags/jbooktrader-fg-0.3 3. If you use IB Gateway, you can log in once and let it run for weeks (if not for months). I've successfully used it with JBT. The downside is that it can't trade, but if your intent is to collect market data, it works just fine. 4. If you want to trade and not restart TWS every day, you may want to look at two software solutions: TWSStart and IBController. Both of them reset the TWS "exit time", thus making it possible to start TWS once and run it continuously. 5. You can configure TWS so that the "Accept incoming connections attempt?" prompt doesn't pop up. On Nov 16, 8:53 am, Gregory Scott Burd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I've been poking around this list's archives hoping to find a definitive > answer to how to run IB TWS and JBookTrader "headless" (aka without a GUI, > without human interaction). I found a link to a shell > (http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader/web/jbt.sh) which is no longer > available (anyone have a copy?) and in the same post instructions for > starting/stopping via cron. I'm looking for solutions to: > > - Running IB TWS or Gateway without user prompts for user/password etc. > - Running JBookTrader with a strategy from the command line > - When JBookTrader connects to TWS the user is prompted "Accept incoming > connections attempt?", I'd like that to not happen (again, goal is zero > human interactions, zero GUI) > > Also, does anyone know if you can make more than one connection to IB's > servers at the same time? Can I run multiple copies of IB TWS or IB Gateway > at the same time? > > thanks for the help! > > -greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en.
