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Post From: Interactive Brokers - Stock Symbol issues from SC(2318) to SC(2333)
| [2021-12-06 18:28:24] |
| User796776 - Posts: 95 |
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After updating to SC 2333 I have several stock symbols with issues. Charts show "Symbol is unknown" and the log contains "The contract description specified for (Symbol) is ambiguous" Below are log excerpts for AMZN using the different SC versions: V2318 Interactive Brokers | Starting real-time market data updates for: AMZN. ID: 4 | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.211 Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to Symbol: AMZN, SecurityType: STK, Expiration: , Exchange: SMART, Primary Exchange: , Currency: USD, Multiplier: , CallPut: , Strike: , LocalSymbol: , TradingClass: | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.211 Interactive Brokers | Requesting security definition data for: AMZN. ID: 4 | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.211 Interactive Brokers | Using primary service for historical data for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.211 Added historical Intraday data request for AMZN to the queue. | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.211 Intraday data recording state for symbol AMZN is set to download 'Pending'. | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.211 Interactive Brokers | Market data type is Live for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:13:52.823 HD Request # 8 | Downloading Intraday chart data for AMZN to the file AMZN.scid. Service: interactive_brokers.trading | 2021-12-06 12:13:58.914 HD Request # 8 | Receiving Intraday data for AMZN starting at 2021-12-06 11:53:30.000000 | 2021-12-06 12:13:59.018 HD Request # 8 | Intraday data download complete for AMZN. Unique request ID: 16 | 2021-12-06 12:13:59.018 Real-time Intraday chart data file updates started for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:13:59.018 V2333 Interactive Brokers | Starting real-time market data updates for: AMZN. ID: 4 | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.245 Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to Symbol: AMZN, SecurityType: STK, Expiration: , Exchange: SMART, Primary Exchange: , Currency: , Multiplier: , CallPut: , Strike: , LocalSymbol: , TradingClass: | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.245 Interactive Brokers | Requesting security definition data for: AMZN. ID: 4 | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.245 Interactive Brokers | Using primary service for historical data for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.245 Added historical Intraday data request for AMZN to the queue. | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.245 Intraday data recording state for symbol AMZN is set to download 'Pending'. | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.245 Symbol Error - AMZN is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for AMZN is ambiguous; you must specify the currency. | 2021-12-06 12:30:53.323 HD Request # 8 | Downloading Intraday chart data for AMZN to the file AMZN.scid. Service: interactive_brokers.trading | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.534 HD Request # 8 | Download start date-time: 2021-12-06 12:29:38.000000. File last date-time: 2021-12-06 12:29:38.828001 | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.534 HD Request # 8 | Requesting a total of 0 days and 4881 seconds. | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.534 HD Request # 8 | IB Backfill - Seconds requested: 4881. Seconds Remaining: 0. | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.534 HD Request # 8 | Requesting 4881 Seconds of data at 30 secs with ending date-time at 2021-12-06 13:40:59 for AMZN. PriceType: TRADES | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.534 HD Request # 8 | Message from IB: The contract description specified for AMZN is ambiguous; you must specify the currency. IB Error Code: 200. Request ID: 200025. | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 HD Request # 8 | Error downloading historical Intraday data for AMZN. The contract description specified for AMZN is ambiguous; you must specify the currency | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 HD Request # 8 | Received 0 Intraday data records from 00:00:00.000000 to 00:00:00.000000 (0.0 seconds) and wrote 0 records for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 HD Request # 8 | Completion time: 0s | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 HD Request # 8 | Intraday data download complete for AMZN. Unique request ID: 16 | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 Removing historical data download ID 16. | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 Real-time Intraday chart data file updates started for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 Intraday chart data file opened for AMZN | 2021-12-06 12:30:59.582 |