 Posted 8/14/2007 10:44:41
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| Nothing is disabled in the trial version. I didn't try historical data, only live (not sure if IB supports historical forex data). Do you have a real account w/ IB or are you trying this with the edemo account? Also, which version of the IB API do you have? We built RightEdge against 9.20 TWS API which can be obtained here. jthorne (8/14/2007)
Okay, I've now tried setting the exchange to IDEALPRO... still no historical data or live data.
Is forex disabled in the trial edition? Not the broker services, just the data feed from IB.
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Posted 8/14/2007 10:49:24
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This is really strange... sorry for all the posts. Here's what I'm doing:
1) Since I'm not trying to papertrade yet, I'm using my live IB account.
2) I can see forex live data (as well as charts) in TWS.
3) I can download historical data in RightEdge as well as see live data for stocks
4) I can't get jack squat for forex. In every case the symbol is unrecognized by IB.
Is there some TWS API version I need to check? Or other configuration issue that would only impact forex?
dplaisted (8/14/2007)
jthorne (8/14/2007)
Okay, I've now tried setting the exchange to IDEALPRO... still no historical data or live data.
Is forex disabled in the trial edition? Not the broker services, just the data feed from IB.
The trial version of RightEdge is no different than the full version. Are you using the demo account for IB? As I understand it, the IB demo account is fairly limited, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't include forex. Can you get forex quotes from within Trader Workstation?
Daniel
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Posted 8/14/2007 11:00:33
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| Hrm, this is becoming a bit puzzling. Can you send me a screen shot of your Symbol Information dialog? I'll compare exactly to mine. Also, check out my other post about getting TWS API 9.20. We've worked w/ IB post 9.0 w/ forex and I don't know that they've fixed anything related to it just not working. No problem w/ the email messages. We'll keep going until we get it hammered out. jthorne (8/14/2007)
This is really strange... sorry for all the posts. Here's what I'm doing:
1) Since I'm not trying to papertrade yet, I'm using my live IB account.
2) I can see forex live data (as well as charts) in TWS.
3) I can download historical data in RightEdge as well as see live data for stocks
4) I can't get jack squat for forex. In every case the symbol is unrecognized by IB.
Is there some TWS API version I need to check? Or other configuration issue that would only impact forex?
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Posted 8/14/2007 11:16:54
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Here's a basic USD/GBP pair.
I'm using 5 minute bars in the folder set up with IB as my data provider.
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Posted 8/14/2007 11:40:52
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 Now I've seen it all. I can take the same symbol setup and run it against the paper broker account and it works. I move to a production account and I don't get an error, however, I never get any data. Wow.Maybe this is a setting in the production accounts? I'll investigate.
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Posted 8/14/2007 11:43:28
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So I've found an actual bug? Oddly enough, that will make me feel better...
billb (8/14/2007)
Now I've seen it all. I can take the same symbol setup and run it against the paper broker account and it works. I move to a production account and I don't get an error, however, I never get any data. Wow.
Maybe this is a setting in the production accounts? I'll investigate.
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Posted 8/14/2007 11:51:28
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You've certainly uncovered something. Is it a setting in IB or the API? Not sure yet. Hopefully we don't have to do something different between live and test accounts in IB.jthorne (8/14/2007)
So I've found an actual bug? Oddly enough, that will make me feel better... billb (8/14/2007)
Now I've seen it all. I can take the same symbol setup and run it against the paper broker account and it works. I move to a production account and I don't get an error, however, I never get any data. Wow. Maybe this is a setting in the production accounts? I'll investigate.
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Posted 8/15/2007 20:56:06
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| As I was investigating this today, it started working with the latest RightEdge production build. Obviously a bit disturbing. The only thing I can think of at this point is that maybe I was running TWS for a few minutes before it started working. I'm still going to continue investigating this, but I thought I'd report back with this news.
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Posted 12/8/2008 08:52:22
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| the same problem as forex EUR/USD 1 RE Edition2 2 I could download historical data of EUR/USD 3 I could get live data of any Stock 4 there is no error message for getting live data of EUR/USD 5 my account base currency is HKD BUT NO LIVE DATA, ALL SHOWS 0 please let me know how to solve this problem
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Posted 12/8/2008 11:46:47
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Have you set the exchange to IDEAL or IDEALPRO? Can you attach a screen capture of your current symbol setup? alexcaicn (12/8/2008)
the same problem as forex EUR/USD 1 RE Edition2 2 I could download historical data of EUR/USD 3 I could get live data of any Stock 4 there is no error message for getting live data of EUR/USD 5 my account base currency is HKD BUT NO LIVE DATA, ALL SHOWS 0 please let me know how to solve this problem
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