Restart period

[Hegelim]

Have been trying to figure this out but all information I found seems to be quite scattered so I might as well ask here: for either paper trading or live trading, do I need to re-login once in a while (some people say it's once per week)? Do the docker images handle auto login so that I can just leave it there running 24/7 with minimum intervention?

[gnzsnz]

For reference -> https://www.ibkrguides.com/traderworkstation/auto-restart-considerations.htm

your trading platform restart automatically on a daily basis. This procedure will require manual authentication once a week, the first time you log into the platform after the security tokens have been invalidated, a security process that occurs each Sunday at 1:00 am ET.

IBC handles the initial authentication, and supports the daily restart. However once a week you will need to restart the container to re-enter credentials, this can be handled by IBC but you have to restart ibgatewa/TWS.

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