Recent Content by d0rian

  1. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    Apologies for the delay in replying. Yes, I've long known that a 'real' programming language like Python was the Big Step I'd eventually want to...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 26, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    Apologies for the delay in replying. Actually, I *do* have another computer that's still running the TWS version before last week's update broke...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 26, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    I do. But, as I wrote above, any TWS installation file will auto-update itself to the current version of TWS, unless you download and install the...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    Unfortunately, I can't -- IB doesn't make prior versions available for download. I.e. once they upload a new version to their TWS download page,...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    Thanks for the replies. Any particular reason you say that about DDE? I've gone very far down each of the DDE and RTD rabbit holes...(very)...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    Yes, the TWSSERVE thing is some part of the IB process / package. No, "accepting" the error doesn't work, it just generates this error popup:...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    I use the "new" DDE socket-bridge API as well. I was hanging on to the legacy DDE for as long as I could but about 2 years ago, they finally...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 22, 2024 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. Did the recent TWS Stable update completely break the API for anyone else?

    I use DDE to stream real-time data into Excel. The latest update to TWS Stable (v 10.30.1l) last week completely broke the DDE Excel formulas that...
    Thread by: d0rian, Oct 22, 2024, 22 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. Perplexing: can't connect to TWS (and other sites) from some WiFi connections

    I'm on a hotel's WiFi but can't log into TWS at all -- after I enter my credentials, it just hangs at the splash screen saying "Connecting to...
    Thread by: d0rian, Dec 14, 2023, 4 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. Is the Options Exchange down?

    widespread reports on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=CBOE&src=typed_query&f=live CBOE down? EDIT: seems to be working again for me now at...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 25, 2023 in forum: Options

  11. Is the Options Exchange down?

    Yes, there's some widespread outage going on... no prices are updating on IB or other brokerages. Very concerning since I have no idea whether my...
    Post by: d0rian, Oct 25, 2023 in forum: Options

  12. Can I launch TWS and PREVENT it from auto-updating to a newer version?

    This workaround seems to have hit a roadblock. Bought a new computer, set everything up and then used the same STABLE TWS Installation file that...
    Post by: d0rian, Jan 17, 2023 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. Can I launch TWS and PREVENT it from auto-updating to a newer version?

    THIS WORKED (!!) Specifically, I opened the tws.vmoptions file in Text editor, and added the following: [IMG] Is this what you were advocating...
    Post by: d0rian, Nov 16, 2022 in forum: Interactive Brokers