Doug Hayman Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 (edited) Sorry for the bother here, but I'm trying to connect MT to a paper trading account under the auspices of my IB account. Have no probs connecting to my real IB trading acct, btw. Logged into IB as a Paper Acct, and made sure that my Global Config is setup for "Enable Active X and Socket Clients". I also disabled the "Read Only API" checkbox. When trying to log in via MT and connect to this IB Test Account, I continue to get a "faulted" status when attempting to login. Am I missing something here? Does IB prevent API connections from test accounts currently? Next, I deleted all my references to my IB Trading acct (Live and Paper), and attempted to re-add my IB Paper Acct, and when I click on the "Verify & Get Accounts" button, I get the message "Account Validation failed to connect" error. Thanks. Edited June 11, 2018 by Doug Hayman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hayman Posted June 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 OK, NEVER MIND, figured it out. IB Paper trading accts use a different API Socket Port (7497), whereas live acct uses port 7496. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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