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Date/Time: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:50:30 +0000
Post From: Problem loading certain ES weekly options, using IB
| [2019-05-15 03:27:34] |
| bfreis - Posts: 19 |
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See how bad TWS is! This really exemplifies our complaints about IB.
I wouldn't be so fast to make that claim. You might want to look at your own engineering... I write a lot of code against the IB API myself (which, I agree, has a terrible design), and I do get the right symbols. So this might not be entirely their fault. TWS is decent software, the API is terrible, but it does/can work. Also, you might want to investigate the new REST/WebSocket API provided by IB. For futures options trading, use this particular service: Sierra Chart / Trading Technologies Futures Order Routing Service
Switching out of IB is not currently a possibility. And it seems like that service doesn't connect to IB. I guess I just need to accept that Sierra Chart has close to zero support for proper options trading, and I won't be able to use it as my single trading software. Thanks |