tr222 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 I can not get the IB feed to work with MT. I only use the program EOD so I do not subscribe to market data from IB, I just use the delayed quotes. Can I still use this as a source for Historical Charts. I am pretty sure I used to do this with QT but that was a long time ago, I just needed to have TWS opened in the background. I am getting an error from TWS that says "The ddedll.dll file required for excel integration is either missing or out of date" when TWS is started, not sure if this is what is causing the problem or not, I have followed IB's instructions which was to update java to the most recent version, but still nothing. Anyone else have this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 You do NOT need to enable DDE API on the TWS API settings. In order for MT to work, you just need to enable the topmost checkbox - "Enable ActiveX and Socket Clients". Also, strongly suggested that you add the Trusted IP Address (bottom of that setting screen). Assuming you are running TWS on the same computer as MT, you would click CREATE and enter 127.0.0.1 as the IP address. click OK and try connecting with MT again.As for subscriptions, delayed data is NOT enough for getting intraday backfill and quotes. You have to have real-time for that. I do not know about Historical data. However, if you are just getting Historical charts for US Equities or other securities supported by google and Yahoo, you can just use those sources in MT for "Historical Backfill" instead of IB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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