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Orders not being transmitted.
When you are installing TWS, you will be asked if you want to bypass the precautions for orders. You should answer yes. If you answered no, your orders will not be transmitted. You can still fix this by going to … Continue reading
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MSFT and CSCO
If you are trading these 2 symbols, you need to set the exchange to ARCA instead of SMART to be able to get data into BT. Thanks to Chuck G. for this finding.
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Bracket Trader has stopped working…
If you encounter this message while running BT, it could be one of 2 problems. The first one is the DEP problem – discussed here – so I won’t discuss it anymore. The second problem is the presence of old … Continue reading
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Another possible problem with European users
If you are getting a type mismatch error when you run BT, you might try changing your decimal point to period instead of comma. In Windows – go to Control Panel – go to Clock, Language, Region – go to … Continue reading
Reset to Default Symbols to get data using new symbol format
The latest API requires the currency information to be able to process the symbols. Previous versions of BT just leave out the currency information. With the new API, if the currency information is blank, it defaults automatically to USD, which … Continue reading
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EOE Traders, etc.
The latest BT (2013r13) was modified to allow trading mini contracts for the same symbol. The included symbols now default to the mini contracts. To trade the full contracts, you need to go to the Add/Delete Symbols option in the … Continue reading
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On API and TWS updates
IB is always updating their TWS or API, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good part is that bugs will be fixed, new features will be added and functions will be more streamlined. The bad … Continue reading
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Out of town
My apologies. I’m right now in a country where it’s hard to get a decent internet connection, so I won’t be able to answer my emails and forum questions right away. I’ll be back on Monday.
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About canceling an order when it is about to be filled..
This is from one of the posts in the following thread – “It’s not a “good practice” to cancel a limit order very close to the fill price, which could cause all kinds of unexpected behaviors …” http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TWSAPI/message/29045 This occurs … Continue reading
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Real time commissions with live trading
There were some users having problems getting the real time commissions from IB in the new release. One user reported back having solved the problem by updating the TWS to the latest version. So, if you are having problems, update … Continue reading
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