This reply is written by our partner Dave Mabe at StockTickr.com:
"Hi David:
Yes, you do have to have TWS (Trader Work Station - IB's trading platform) up and running to use the robot. You can, however, have it running on a different PC than the robot and connect to it over the network. That might be an option if he feels it hinders performance to run it on the same PC.
Dave"
Thanks for your question. If you have more you can ask them here and I'll pass them along.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.