Has anyone experienced complications with using two computers (say a laptop and a desktop) to connect to the same IB account? (Using one machine for charts and one for order entry) I attempted it and one screen kept turning neon purple. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance...
you can open up to 3 accounts on each computer. each account can only opened once at a time. if you need datafeed, open the papertrade account on the 2nd computer.
maybe open a paper trading account and use that for the charts? http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/paperTrader.php
Wait, isn't the demo user account delayed by 15 or 20 minutes? Wouldn't do much good for intraday trading. I assume then that by "paper trading account," you mean one that is funded but that you won't trade live with. But then, why not just sign up with a real data provider and get the additonal features of backfills, etc.?
just click on the link I posted, which explains the IB paper trading account. This is different from the "Live TWS demo".
You can connect to only one logon at a time, but you can have multiple logons per account. Each logon has its own data charges.