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Post From: Order for different symbol - supported for IB with Equity options?

[2019-05-21 00:09:05]
User177773 - Posts: 4
Looking at your previous response above "Most likely the error is related to the symbol settings not existing."
Does this mean that explicitly using the symbol name alone (NewOrder.Symbol = "SPY-OPT-20190520-283-C-SMART-100-USD";)
is not sufficient? it also has to be defined in the symbol setting xml database?
If this is the answer - can this then be specified using the "use pattern matching character option"?
For example, SPY-OPT-20190522-283-C-SMART-100-USD => SPY-OPT-########-###-?-SMART-100-USD
and SPY-OPT-20190522-269.5-P-SMART-100-USD => SPY-OPT-########-###*#-?-SMART-100-USD

I certainly hope that's the case so that each option in the option chain does not have to be individually defined in the symbol setting xml data base.

Thanks,

Erik