Interactive Brokers and Auto Trading

[tradetree]

I am running NT7 exclusively. So it sounds like it will be easier and more automatic for me in that case? I am also looking into "AutoIt" which is a windows scripting package that I may be able to use to startup TWS automatically (even if I launch the script manually and watch it work each day).

I am familiar with Strategy Positions vs. Account positions from Tradestation.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

tradetree, yes the TWS needs to be running and connected to NT. I believe you can google for a tool called TWSStart that would change the logoff time for you...strategies would be persisted also with our NT7 version, so you would just need to reenable them then.

Yes, you can start them from the strategies tab as well - just keep in mind they use the default chart lookback in 6.5 so you would want to ensure those 'days back' settings fit what your strategies need.

For autotrading in general, please take same time and review this closely -

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/StrategyPositionVsAccountPosition.html

[tradetree]

I've searched for threads on IB and auto trading and have some questions:
1) I read that TWS must be running for NT to trade IB accounts. Is that correct?
2) I read that TWS requires you to log in every day. The big problem with this is that when you re-connect with NT, then all running strategies in NT will be disabled and must be re-enabled. That is a big problem as I run about 10 strategies and would have to manually re-enable them every day?
3) If you do have to re-enable strategies then can you do it quickly through the strategy manager rather than going into a chart window?
4) Are there any other issues with auto-trading via IB?