Ignoring sub accounts during start up

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sectorbets
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Ignoring sub accounts during start up

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We have about 50 sub accounts attached to an IB master account, but only a few are using TWSLink to receive orders from TradeStation signals. During start up, TWSLink is reading the open positions in all 50 accounts -- is there a way to ignore the accounts that won't be using TWSLink, or should we set up a separate master account that would only have sub accounts that are using TWSLink.

Thank you
Rick

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Re: Ignoring sub accounts during start up

Post by board_admin »

Please check the setup file, usually located in

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C:\Program Files (x86)\trade-commander\twslink2\xml
Open twslink.xml in a text editor and search for tag <acc_update_mode>.
If the value is full, try to set to summary

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 <acc_update_mode ttl="off,summary,full">summary</acc_update_mode>
If it is already set to summary, there is no way to reduce startup time, except setting to off.
But in this case, you can't get position information.

sectorbets
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Re: Ignoring sub accounts during start up

Post by sectorbets »

It is already set to summary, so I guess the easiest solution is to set up another master account just for TWSLink accounts.

Thank you
Rick

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