tj29

When I wrote the note above I had MT running on a different PC than IB TWS. I opened MT on the same PC as TWS and I was able to find my IB accounts. Since I'm using your free license I disabled two of my three accounts. I have some type of connection to IB but the data stream is not coming into MT. MT shows my IB account number but does not show a box for my IB password. How can I input my PW? Does IB allow a 3rd party app to run on a PC other than the one that TWS is running on? I deleted my Ameritrade account from MT but when I open MT a window pops up asking for my AMTrade account number and PW. How can I remove any connection to AmTrade?

I can't get MT to connect to IB. I'm getting the msg Account validation failed to connect. In the Data Source/Configure Acct screen I show: API client ID: 0 TWS IP Address: 127.0.0.1 TWS Socket Port: 7496 In the Trading/Accounts screen I show: Login Nickname: my IB username API client ID: 0 TWS IP Address: <blank> (I tried using 127.0.0.1 but that didn't work either) TWS Socket Port: 7496 The API Settings in TWS match the MT instructions. I set the Socket Port to 7496 (was 7497.). What am I missing?

Jerry: I use the Edgerater app that has an API to TOS for real time quotes. The transition to Schwab was seamless for this app. I have ER running on two PCs, one PC has TOS/TDA running while the second PC uses TOS/Schwab. Both are working fine. ER does not provide the ability to trade from it but if you can figure out how ER connects to TOS at least we can get RT quotes into MT. https://www.edgerater.com