u/sgcorporatehamster ·
Reddit — r/algotrading
· March 31, 2026 at 06:08
· ⬆ 17 pts
· 💬 32 comments
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The post is about an algo trader experiencing connectivity issues with Interactive Brokers (IBKR) when paper trading a bot from Asia during US market hours.
The author's thesis is that a stable hardware and infrastructure setup is critical for reliable algo trading, but they lack technical expertise to resolve disconnections.
Quality assessment: This is noise in terms of investment insights; it is a technical support query with no market analysis or research.
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I have completed my backtest and research and is ready to move on to paper trade my algobot with IBKR. Setup is home based with a laptop running overnight on wifi, with ibgateway. Having a stable / robust connection proved to be a bigger challenge than i expected, with ibkr disconnecting overnight. This is a problem, especially since i am based in Asia and am trading US hours.
Can anyone give directional feedback as to how I can troubleshoot and narrow down the problem? I come from non-tech background (the bot is vibe-coded), so any inputs in terms of possible improvement areas (hardware, pipeline, connectivity, etc.) will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!