Alberto Costa shows how to use Interactive Brokers TWS when automatic updates break your system. Download the offline installer instead, which skips update checks. He walks through the crash and recommends version 972 as a stable build.
September 26, 2021
Version 972
Windows, Mac, and Linux
Imagine that one day you start your trading workstation, your interactive broker platform for trading, and as usual you download the updates. But then something goes wrong.
Maybe because your system is too old.
The updates are not compatible.
But for some reason you don't want to update your system. So the question is, what can you do?
Can you still keep using Interactive Brokers.
Or are you really forced to update your system? Well, the answer is you can still.
Use Interactive Brokers with this offline installer.
Okay, so what is an offline installer.
Is basically a version of the platform where this check that is done automatically every time you start the application. So the check for downloading updates is not.
So you are safe because if new things are installed that are not compatible with your system, actually you can still use your interactive brokers and you can.
Download this offline installer here, right?
There is a version for Windows, for.
Mac and for Linux. I also have another page that I found here where you can download even older versions, right? This is the latest and then you have an older version.
So we'll put these links in the description. But just for you to know what.
I mean, this is what happened when I start usual trader workstation platform. So you see here what happens now is trying to download some kind of update. So it's downloading and then after that, boom. That's all the application crash or I don't know what happened, but if I click it again, the same thing happened. So I want to show you exactly what I mean by having issues with update.
Okay? So the same happens.
So if this happen, I'm not able to trade anymore. So when I download this version in the past, that is the 972, but this one of these versions that does not download updates, you see that I can log in and then I'm done.
So in case you are experiencing the.
Same problem and you don't know what.
To do, this is what I suggest.
You download this offline version that does not update automatically as is written also here. And this is something that I found out by chatting with the customer service of Interactive Broker. So I found someone quite kind explaining me this because I didn't know that and I want you to save some time so you don't have to go through the process of chatting with them and finding out what you can do. I give you the link, I put them in the description and I really hope that this can help someone with the same problem that I had. So with that, that's all for this video. See you next time.
