I set up my hotkeys in my trading station to place a quick buy order but whenever I do it this pop up comes up "You are trying to submit an order without having market data for this instrument. IB strongly recommends against this kind of blind trading which may result in erroneous or unexpected trades." It's absolutely annoying as I want to place the order as fast as possible. I unchecked all possible messages in settings but it's not helping. Please tell me if I can somehow get rid of it?
I think this message pops up only when you are not subscribed to their market data and not receiving / not using real-time prices. Are these regular stocks traded in the US, and are you subscribed to market data? Do you see real-time prices on the charts?
IB drives me nuts. Is there not a checkbox at the bottom of that message to never get it again? Do you ever get the popup from when you click buy or sell and then choose to look at a different instrument? It says that you are navigating away from the screen and the order will reset. I can't take it anymore, it's nonstop. I sent a message to their help desk so in a couple of weeks I should get a response. There whole interface I find clunky and way too difficult to submit orders in a quick manner.
No, this message you can't get rid of. You seem to have no market data subscription and thus are looking at delayed prices. Prices which are at least 15~20 minutes delayed (dependent on the exchange). Nevertheless you want to trade as fast as possible? Trying to trade "as fast as possible" to data which is old and stale sounds like a contradiction to me.
Subscribe to the market data. It will do away with that message and ,lo and behold, you'll be trading on the current prices, not the ones from 10 or 15 minutes ago.