Can-WL-reconnect-to-IB-after-it-reboots

The other issue that IB disconnecting causes is that if I placed orders through WL7 and they are populated in the Order Manager, on rebooting WL7 the orders are gone from the order manager and can no longer be managed through WL7.

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if I placed orders through WL7 and they are populated in the Order Manager, on rebooting WL7 the orders are gone from the order manager and can no longer be managed through WL7.

Right, there's even a feature request for "Broker Order Status Continuity After Restarts":
https://www.wealth-lab.com/Discussion/Broker-Order-Status-Continuity-After-Restarts-5972

But it's the matching of broker/WL orders that makes it a challenging task (i.e. "which Signal Block to put those orders into"), if we consider that there can be orders placed outside the platform...

What do you mean by "Daily Active strategies"?

Open orders aside, you can click "Connect" after TWS restarts to log back in without restarting Wealth-Lab.

Let me explain with more detail. Ideally, WL7 should be able to run strategies set up in Strategy Monitor without any interaction from the user. For example, if I travel, I don't want to have to login remotely each morning to ensure my strategies are running correctly and connections to brokers are active. Is this a reasonable expectation or goal for WL7?

Along those lines, I'm trying to hammer out situations that come up that require human interaction to ensure my strategies are running and synchronized with my account (and not be chained to my computer). The IB disconnect issue is one of those issues that I've run into.

Hmmm, personally it's never been a goal of mine. I like to run my systems every day and like the feeling of knowing precisely what's going on. If I go on vacation, I just bring my laptop. Even though I still trade through Fidelity and have to manually place my trades, it never takes longer than 5 minutes a day to get everything done.

With such a complex system, there are things that can go wrong. Also, we want to support more brokers. Each broker has their own idiosyncrasies and pain points. So, with the limited resources we have, the goal right now is to broaden the broker landscape, somewhat at the expense of getting a fully automated trading setup in place.

But just because I’m not personally invested in having my trading fully automated doesn’t mean others feel the same way, so of course we’re open to listening to the community’s desire and will work within the Feature Request system to get the most desired features implemented as quickly as we can.

Totally understand and the set and forget approach isn't for everyone. WL7 is an amazing research platform (better than most institutional platforms that I've used). I'm just an automation junkie as it keeps me out of trouble.

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Open orders aside, you can click "Connect" after TWS restarts to log back in without restarting Wealth-Lab.

I'll try that tomorrow and see if it works.

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What do you mean by "Daily Active strategies"?

I was just referring to strategies in SM set to active(daily word was misleading). The need to reactivate all strategies as their active-ness isn't saved with a workspace

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The need to reactivate all strategies as their active-ness isn't saved with a workspace

This is off topic here but I'll point you to Dion's comment on a related matter:
https://www.wealth-lab.com/Discussion/Closing-WL7-forces-Strategy-Monitor-to-close-active-strategies-5734

On the other hand we want to avoid the case where someone is surprised by opening the SM and have strategies activate that might then potentially place trades. For anything like this we like to err on the side of caution.