thanks TJ..... I found your solution, but unfortunately it does not make a difference....even after closing down and re-opening etc; (In the MCDT you it seems you cannot do a screen shot) as the example: I have some instruments in the real time scanner with three decimal places, and others with 2 de...

another issue that should be easily fixed, but I cannot work out where it would be done.... Some stocks/instruments, have a decimal point value of only 2 figures to the right of the decimal point, while others have more (eg; 3), while they all have the identical settings in the Quote manager in term...

FYI - tried dropping a couple of strategies, from the MCDT into IB, modifying them and dropping other orders ....all worked well, quick and responsive....virtually instantaneous.
so no problems for me when using IB TWS and MCDT.

There are some issues with the symbol mapping. So far I have tried various methods of getting the symbol mapping correct between IB, Esignal and MCDT. The situation that seems best is to use IB as the broker - and download shorter term chart data when needed in order to trade off the chart. But when...

I was using MCDT and dragging and dropping orders into IB.
so far they where quick and responsive.
These orders were not OCO or bracket orders....I will try these today if i have time and let you know

FYI - found an interesting and confusing situation. I have one chart set up with IB feed, and IB as the broker I have a second chart with Esignal as the feed. The charts are 30 minutes OHLC charts. the symbol for both charts is the same.....just different data feeds. (apart from the fact that the da...

As an aside, maybe this should be continued in a new thread and the previous posts moved there as I dont want to distract from this being where the IB download is. Yet, there are still issues with the quotes and the codes when symbol mapping This appears to be an issue when the three symbol code has...

thanks for that. (sorry for the late reply I was away for a few days)_ Just to let you know it all seems to work fine once it was mapped correctly and I found that little SA tag at the top of the chart window. It seemed that there is the potential to miss this mapping, as it looked like it was alrea...

Thanks for the help TJ but now I am completely lost. I am in MCDT, I have a chart open for an Australian stock BHP-ASX that is picking up live data from IB, I have the manual/discretionary trader attached to the chart. What is the strategy I have to apply to the chart? I am not autotrading, but tryi...

Hi Dave,
this could be the issue
I cannot find
Strategy Properties --> Auto Trading --> Broker plug-in sttings --> IB --> Symbol Mapping

Is it in the QM, or the MCDT?
thanks.

FYI - Tried again a couple of times through the day. It is picking up Esignal, with no problems, and picking up IB data no problems. The feed from IB seems to work in that it picks up the existing position data, however, when trying to input an order - to buy a stock below the last price, then the I...

IB TWS has frozen and does not respond.....when trying to trade live.
It still did not accept orders from the MCDT, and ended up freezing and dying all together.

second that. Everything seems to be updating as per expected now. thanks. I do have a question that may relate to others who are using IB as the broker and Esignal to feed data, when using stocks. How do I ensure the quote manager can pick up the symbol names I wish to use for both instruments? Pres...

Yes- I am having the same IB problems.... however, interestingly enough, for some reason I could actually start to see the orders, be shown on the screen with the chart tags in MC, and then an order being put into IB..... but only briefly - hence the systems are connected..... I never noticed this b...

yes.....I have nothing from IB.
Esignal the charts/data are updating and feeding through.
ID TWS is updating by itself on the same computer.....but not feeding through to MC

Interesting.... I have loaded MCDT and have two feeds for the same stock - one from esignal and one from IB. the IB chart does not update, the Esignal does. The IB chart when I have the chart trader next to it, does show the correct account number from IB, and the Order and position tracker shows th...

arnie, did you solve this problem.
I too plan to have Esignal as the data feed and IB as the broker. I trade stocks (and FX and futures) and it would be good to have a simple system to import a lot of symbols names?
thanks.

I am much the same. Some stocks I can get into the Quote Manager easily and quickly, others hang and I cannot get them to load. Ideally I plan to use Esignal....as the data feed, and IB as the broker, but still working on that, and the issue will be the same,..... how to easily get a lot of stock/sy...