OCC![]() Regular ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 85 Joined: 3/7/2013 ![]() | OK, success—now running TP and TWS for IB on AWS. But not exactly a "cloud 9" experience ... Thanks to Angela! Running her video on laptop screen, while setting up AWS in browser on external monitor, got this non-techie through the process in about 4 hours—but errors with Java and TWS setup ate up 2 more hours. :-( HOWEVER, the video is outdated. I discovered some CHANGES others should know: #1) To run TP and TWS for IB, simply choose the FREE "t2.micro" instance type. Amazon has increased Memory and performance since the time of the video, and tech support thinks it should work fine. (Thus, ignore the warning message on the video to use "t2.small" for IB's TWS with TP No need to pay for what's not needed ... ) #2) INSTALL JAVA before starting installation of IB's TWS! (If backwards, TWS has to be un-installed, then restarted, so it finds the correct path to java files needed to function.) #3) Get JAVA only from Oracle's official web site download pages: http://java.com/en/download/help/windows_manual_download.xml http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp The current file today is: jre-8u45-windows-x64.exe #4) Beware of imposters--and avoid other download sources. besttechtips.org warns about a “Windows cannot find javaw.exe” error: "the name javaw.exe is sometimes used by malware to hide inside your PC. Rogue javaw.exe files will cause speed slows, system freezes and crashes and constant appearance of “Blue Screen of Death”. ... the real javaw.exe file does not require much memory, so abnormal memory usage is a sure sign of a fake file in your system." #5) Check to be sure you have the latest install files for TP (under Tools on the OV web site) and TWS at: https://www.nirvanasystems.com/intbrokerclientinstalls/ #6) Install and open TWS--and configure it--before opening TP. First read the entire IB chapter in the Trade Processor User Guide "Interactive Brokers and the Trade Processor"! Note: To configure, in Edit››Configuration, API››Settings, check "Enable ActiveX and Socket Clients". Under Trusted IP Addresses, click Create and add 127.0.0.1. #7) Amanzon offers 12 months FREE use of AWS for basic EC2. (Ignore references in the video about fees.) Per AWS web site: http://aws.amazon.com/ re: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services are: • 750 hours of Microsoft Windows Server† t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month* • 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing* • 30 GB of Amazon Elkastic Block Storage in any combination of General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic, plus 2 million I/Os (with EBS Magnetic) and 1 GB of snapshot storage* #8) If you want a shortcut, Nirvana tech support offered to do much of the process via remote login. However, I decided to learn by doing, to be better prepared to manage tech issues with real money trading. #9) Finally, near the end of setup I learned from tech support that Nirvana is finally offering a “Beta” TP on its OV servers—but only for GX Trader and MB Trading. Interactive Brokers is not available yet. [Edited by OCC on 4/23/2015 9:57 PM] |