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Ok , no prob , thought so. Obviously, I am running only the paper account at this time. Dont want to tempt fate.

That's what I did for TRADING, but for DATA SOURCE with the existing IB setup (port 7496) I had to change the port to 7497 .

Fooling around with the IB paper account. Have it up and running, but wound up changing the port to 7497 in MT to get quotes from it (They use by default this port # vs 7496 for the real account, as you know ) Is this the preferred way of getting paper trader quotes , as I'll have to go in and change it back to 7496 They claim they use two diff ports so you can run them both at the same time. Any chance of accidentally sending a trade to the real account from mt ??

Thanks

Does MT support ameritrade paper trading at all?

I mean who is going to give up TWS to trade off a web page ??? They say they are going to make it easy to switch from 'pro' to lite, but theres no comparison for any active trader. If they want to compete properly, they need to allow trading off the TWS (and API) , where the trade gets routed to payment for order flow houses if thats what you want for the free trade I personally could care less where the trade gets filled, as long as I'm executed at the current price. Smart routing is no bargain , you get frontrun and pennied anyway

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=45196 scroll down to compare plans button You'll see they omit the API in the listing

yeah, based on the web site they put up , it indicates no TWS access, which would be very sad and wrong. This would be very good for you if MT could access.

Pretty big news today on this. IB dragged into the 21st century with free trading. Jerry, you have any insight into whether you will be able to access the api on this ? Based on what I have read , they aren't allowing access to the free trades via TWS (not 100% sure about this , and it's a problem for scalping if thats true) Just wondering what you might know about it

I knew I asked this before. Still on my wish list . TriggerAlert("RangeIncrease", "" + ACR_Line) Produces: 09/11/19 11:04:05 PM Paintbar 3013.75 @ESU19 Alert "RangeIncrease" on Paintbar "Average Candle Range Breakout" 0.24 As you can see , quite a bit of text is automatically printed BEFORE the value .24 , so a very wide Alert window is needed to see it. Could use a separate column for the TriggerAlert message component OR put the message before the descriptive text.

ok, got it. for some reason , I was doing everything BUT that/

Nope. Backfilling the primary still doesnt trigger the other COMPARE symbols.

Still having an issue with backfill on charts with multiple symbols. Backfill only works on the primary symbol. It should initiate for all symbols on the chart. If I have 5 symbols , I have to click on each one and do a manual backfill. This is on charts where the symbols arent in an open portfolio , which could be used to backfill all.

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Actually haven't had problems using the same symbol for amtd backfill up till now . If I have a problem I'll try the continuous Any idea on the IB throttling? I only have a limited number of symbols using IB backfill, so I don't think overload is the issue

finally got RTY backfilled by IB , but took a very long time

Starting up platforms around noon today, having problem with IB futures backfill not working . No reason for them to be throttling , and it happened last week as well. Any other reports of this ? 15 minutes in, and still cant get a back fill Ameritrade BF works for the same futures symbols . Strangely, es nq YM backfill from amtd, but not RT ??

lol, I do , but not daily. good catch on the Triggersize thing. I JUST!!! added that extra text to remind myself when entering the value, That's what broke the code. I haven't been working with the codebase for some time, so forgot that was the VARIABLE NAME. jezuz

im reading your message now, keep in mind this was working for me fine for many months, so something def changed

ok, will do that later today .

Ill check

any luck? I sent the log

ok will do

This was fine, for a long time but today not working at all. No errors, just not executing when placed in chart. Tired new chart . Same problem Saw it work with some symbols but not others, alert window fired, but no sound alert , etc. Tried reloading MT, no help Cant find version info, think Im running the most recent beta scan.txt

🙂 busted again , someone there isn't doing their job