I am going to buy a live license of NT and had a few questions before I go ahead.
I use Interactive Brokers and been trading sim with my automatic strategy. I noticed the orders my strategy creates in NT are not sent to the sim account at IB.
When I buy the live license how do orders work? I assume they are sent as soon as they are created in NT and I can see them in the IB window.
My main concern is that once filled the associated target and stop order are also placed with IB. That way I don't have to worry about connection issues with NT, the program being closed if the power goes off or if the computer hiberates or the computer restarts due to a power outage. The current live order will hit the target or stop until I have a connection again. I never really paid attention in sim mode but now that I'm going live it is quite a concern to protect against a connection issue and preventing a disaster.
Also do users disable their computers from hiberating during trading hours but leave the screensaver because of password protection?
Thx
IJ
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