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Published in TZ Latest News 14 April, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Having trouble with Futures Contracts in IB TWS API

Hello,

I am in the process of developing my automated trading platform (unix c++) that will interface with the IB TWS API (I’m very early in the process). Right now I am working with a demo account to work out all of the bugs in my software out. I have been able to succefully get quotes and place trades for stocks and options, but am having trouble with futures and currencies.

I get the following error when I perform m_pClient->reqContractDetails(2000,MyContract)

“Error id=2000,…

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