Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 EDIT: New PRODUCTION version : https://medvedtrader.com/download or via prompt within the program itself. We are still waiting on some fixes from Schwab, so for now OPTIONS and LEVEL II are not available. We will enable them in the future. There may be some incorrect display of balances depending on account types. Please check and let us know if you are seeing any problems. Also, streaming account activity is waiting for the same update as options/Level II so for now trading stuff is updated using polling. will be faster once enabled. SOME Account types, like TRUST, are not yet available via Schwab's API for trading. Will be in the future NOTE: Schwab is currently restricting access to ONE login per login ID. I do not know if that will be changed. To run MT on multiple computers with the same login ID, there is a workaround further in the replies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snax Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Awesome. Thanks for the update Jerry. Is the DOM working already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 you can trade on the DOM but you won't see real Level II data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hayman Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Unfortunately, I may have limited access to look at this today, but do you know if there are any symbol # limitations with Schwab OR are the limitations similar to TDA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 Symbol limits are same as TDA. Backfill limit is lower - 35 days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carawlins Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Thanks for the update! I do have some questions. 1. Does this integration with Schwab mean that stock quotes and trading is available through MT? 2. Do we need to perform an update to enable this new integration? 3. Can we also get index quotes using this new Schwab integration? Thanks for your response. There may be others with similar questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 1) yes, stock, futures, forex and Index quotes are working 2) Yes, you do need to get the beta version if you want to use it now. We plan to release a production update with Schwab before May 10th. 3) Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carawlins Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Great! Thanks for the clarification! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adventures In .NET Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 What are your thoughts on the quality of the API? Are fills looking like they will be confirmed quickly in the chart/DOM? I'm having pretty good luck with TradeStation, but at open and a few times in the day, the order marker bounces around for a few seconds before finally showing the position price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 from the technical point of view, the API is basically the same as TD Ameritrade. As for trade fills, I have no idea. my main accounts have not been moved yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex_hacker202 Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 2 hours ago, Jerry Medved said: you can trade on the DOM but you won't see real Level II data. If we also have a Fido account linked to MT can't we get L2 from there by switching the data source MT is using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 we do not support Level II with Fidelity, but if you have access to Level II with one of the supported sources, sure you can use that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hayman Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 (edited) OK, cannot test trading today, but all Level 1 quotes seem to working fine for stocks/futures on one of my machines. One issue with me though. I have 9 Schwab accounts, and when I configured my Schwab source in MT, it only found 8 (of the 9) accounts to migrate into MT. My Taxable Trading TRUST account was not recognized for MT import for some reason. When I log into web-based Schwab using same login, of course, all 9 display without issue. I never had issue with this "TRUST" account with MT/TDA. Any idea on what i can look for here? Thanks in advance. Edited April 26 by Doug Hayman Added "TRUST" acct reference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 Hi Doug - during the login process one of the pages that shows is a list of accounts that you are authorizing. The account in question was not listed there, right? before today, Schwab API was restricted to not work with a bunch of account types. One of the things we were waiting for was for the update that went in last night to enable a whole bunch of different account types. However, I believe they still have some more to do, and I assume the Trust type is one of them. I will check with them about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 FYI - I just confirmed that TRUST roles are not yet enabled. Will be done in future updates (on Schwab) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hayman Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Jerry, that account was not listed there when I authorized, correct. On my Schwab end, In the Security Settings -> Third Party Access, there is an entry for MT that lists the 8 (of 9) accounts. I assume that was entered on their side, when I agreed to using MT for this source via my authorization. Thanks for looking into it. Again FYI, if a "Trust" account is treated differently by Schwab for some reason, I never had an issue with this type of account with MT/TDA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brynk Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 where is the beta? I checked for updates in MT and included betas in my settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 you are already running it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brynk Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 ah...I was looking for a beta, not a full production Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 27 Author Report Share Posted April 27 ?? you are running the beta, not the full production Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 once you shut down and restart MT, it keeps asking for authorization again. Seems every time MT restart it needs to authorize with Schwab. A bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 27 Author Report Share Posted April 27 should not have to. Are you using Schwab in MT on more than one computer? If not, then I need to get the log file to see what the problem is. Please do the following: Go to FILE / HELP => Send Log/Settings to support menu (from Dashboard or Portfolio) And add this Post’s URL in the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 (edited) I am using MT on 3 PC, one instance each running simultaneously, When one instance restart and ask for authorization, all other will ask also. Each instance was individually authorized before several times. Edited April 27 by alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 27 Author Report Share Posted April 27 Schwab is restricting access to a single connection per login (which is problematic with all accounts on one login). Thus the authorization stuff you are seeing. Here is a way to get around that: On each of the 3 computers, save your Layout (FILE/SAVE LAYOUT) and then close ALL MT Windows (other than the dashboard) Close MT on all 3. start MT on one of the PCs, Load Layout (FILE/LOAD LAYOUT) and login to Schwab. Go to FILE/EXPORT, Select JUST "User Settings" in the list and select "For <your email> Account Only" on the right side for the Export File Protection NOTE the location of the file that will be exported. EXPORT The settings, and copy the file to the other 2 computers On each of the other computers, start MT, select FILE/IMPORT and import the file you copied in step 5 On each of the other computer, select FILE/LOAD LAYOUT and select the layout you saved in step 1. Now as long as you login to Schwab on one of the computers at least once within 7 days, it should be OK. However if you get a full login with Authentication again, you would have to do the steps again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 Did everything you described. Seems working now on all 3 pc. Will update if anything happens. Thank You!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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