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Why Accounts in IB TWS Are Constantly Switching?

35 bytes added, 14:05, 26 September 2012
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* '''Financial Advisor account (FA)'''
* '''Master account'''
* '''Friends and Family account'''
The distinguished feature of those accounts is the presence of subaccounts. Customers with '''FA''' or '''Master''' accounts may notice that when MultiCharts is connected to IB data source/broker with such account type, all subaccounts are constantly changing in IB TWS. There is a reason for this. '''FA'''/'''Master''' account doesn't allow any 3rd party software to access all subaccounts at the same time to get updated information about account balance, open market positions, active orders and so on. That is why MultiCharts has to switch them constantly in IB TWS to update info on all accounts.
<div style="background-color: #E3FBE5;">'''Note''': This doesn't affect data feed. </div>