1. I use Interactive Brokers so we know TWS has to logout once every 24 hours. To work around this i use: IBController application. Or i use IB Gateway which automatically connects again.
2. I use a VPS with only Multichats, IB, Time Sync (to ensure correct time) and Splahstop remote desktop app. So far my VPS (tried godaddy) has had zero down time for first couple months. I only have 3gb ram which i find more than enough but i like to run IB Gateway recently because it takes far less resources.
3. I have many strategies running at the same time, many strategies trade the same symbol. I use alerts (mainly email alerts - i am finding only Yahoo email works).
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if checkalert = true then begin
if GetAppInfo(aiStrategyAuto) = 0
then
alert(text("Strategy is not live"));
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TimeSpan timeDifference = DateTime.Now - Bars.StatusLine.Time;
// Generate alert if these are enabled and time difference is more than 25 seconds
if ((Alerts.CheckAlertLastBar) && (timeDifference > TimeSpan.FromSeconds(25)))5. Obviously i use IB email alerts for trades made.
6. I am in the process of trying sever monitoring software - i presume we can ping the machine constantly and alert if server is down. Any recommendations on this type of software???
7. I have Interactive Brokers TWS app installed on my android and tablets just in case i need to use this.
8. I know sometime MC has data issues or where certain number of bars did not load properly. I am thinking of adding reload: .rld command to reload last days data at certain time. Does anybody think this is a good idea?
9. In-case of software failure (if i use IBController with TWS) i use windows scheduling tool to ensure the application runs again - keeps checking every 5 seconds if software is running.
Issues with this:
Now what do i do if MC freezes or my Server restarts, i can use scheduling software to auto-start MC and IB but then i have no way of turning on each strategy (i use charts and not portfolio), particularly because we have to click 'yes' to autotrade. Has anybody managed to get a fix on this issue so everything can run on restart and auto go live? I am not that technical but maybe we can write a macro to perform this function?
Another issue i have is saving strategy positions. I know this can be written to a document (i don't know how). So if we did restart i would need figure out a way of determining which strategies were in a trade (as many trade on the same symbol). I read a thread which i can't find mentioning this issue and the fix was do send all strategy orders for particular symbol to a global controller signal which places trades. Does anyone have a fix on this issue which is relatively easy to implement?
I trade futures CL and need my strategies to auto load to next symbol. Recently i have just come across .iind command an was thinking of utilising this. Has anybody had any success with this (once symbol is changed the problem i presume would be strategy goes back into offline mode). How do you guys deal with contract rollover?
Is there anyway to somehow give an alert if Multicharts software has frozen? Can any monitoring tool constantly ping software to see if it is working and give email alert?
There is probably hundreds of other fail-safes out there but can you guys add any other major ones to this list. My goal is to allows system to trade 100% hands free with many fail-safes built it and maybe once a day remote desktop login to check everything worked correctly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
