auto reconnect: IB-Gateway

[NinjaTrader_Marco]

Thanks for the feedback, timko.

Deciding on features for future releases is not a simple black and white decision. There are many factors involved including but not limited to:

• Demand which is measured by objective user requests and subjective discretion on the part of our Product Management team.
• Feasibility
• Developer bandwidth
• Current projects in the queue
• Economics

You'll find a note regarding your feature request in the release notes when a feature is implemented.

[timko]

I look forward to see this SFT-2395 implemented in the next iteration, asap, if not 5 years later.
Please understand the necessity and urgency of the feature. Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Melissa]

Hello,

Thank you for the post.

SFT-4924 is IB Gateway specific, while SFT-2395 is a platform-wide request for any provider.

I have added your vote to SFT-2395.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

[robotic]

How is SFT-2395 different from SFT-4924 in https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...ausing-nj-disc ? If they're the same issue (looks that way), please combine the votes. Either way, add my vote to SFT-2395 also.

[NinjaTrader_Melissa]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply and our apologies for the confusion about TWS versus IB Gateway.

That being said, what my colleague Marco mentioned is correct-- NinjaTrader currently cannot automatically reconnect in the event of a broker side disconnection and also would not be able to automatically re-enable strategies.

We have added your vote to SFT-2395, which would allow this automatic reconnection.

You may check the Release Notes page of the Help Guide to see if a feature has been added in a new release of NinjaTrader which would satisfy the functionality requested here.

Release Notes - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

Please let us know if we may be of any further assistance.

[timko]

Marco,

pls read twice my subject line. I am talking about the IB-Gateway, not TWS.
Also, please validate your claim before making any suggestions. I have been suggested to use IB-Gateway by your colleague(s) as a solution to the TWS daily auto logoff. I took a lot of efforts (system backups, different rollbacks) to install the IB-Gateway and found that, it does AUTO LOGOFF in the same way as the TWS!!! I wish I am wrong and in case if you REALLY know how to config IB-Gateway to run continuously for 1 week without logging off or restart, please provide the procedures. I would love to see it.

After some experiments, I found that IB-Gateway can do a login without user credentials. Now the ball is in the Ninjatrader's park as without the ability to auto reconnect, this IB-Gateway restart characteristics can no longer be exploitable.

This is why I ask Ninjatrader to provide auto reconnect for IB-Gateway.

[NinjaTrader_Marco]

Hello,

Thanks for your post.

It is a known situation where TWS will force a disconnection. Many users report that IB Gateway does not exhibit this behavior, so we may suggest using IB Gateway instead to keep the connection running.

NinjaTrader currently cannot automatically reconnect in the event of a broker side disconnection and also would not be able to automatically re-enable strategies. We are tracking interest in providing that sort of functionality in the feature request ticket ID SFT-2395. I have added a vote on your behalf. Note that these are internal tracking numbers and we cannot offer an ETA for implementation. You may check the Release Notes page of the Help Guide to see if a feature has been added in a new release of NinjaTrader which would satisfy the functionality requested here.

Release Notes - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ease_notes.htm

Using the ImmediatelySubmit Start Behavior will have the strategy attempt to match historical orders calculated when the strategy is enabled and processes historical data with the realtime orders it has submitted a previous time it was enabled. If the strategy matches the historically calculated orders with the live orders, the strategy will resume managing these orders. I recommend considering to use this start behavior when you want to have the strategy resume a previous position.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ediatelySubmit

Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

[timko]

Hi,
Is there a way to configure NT8 8.0.22.2 to carry out auto reconnection to IB-Gateway? The behavor is similar to Kinetick: when there's a connection lost, the system tries to reconnect.