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Post From: Interactive Brokers - Stock Symbol issues from SC(2318) to SC(2333)

[2021-12-08 06:31:17]
ephi144 - Posts: 54
i second this. this is my 4th re-installation of newer version than 2282 and I can attest that several interactive broker symbols are all broken. i have been posting about this since early this evening.
i followed direction to update the symbols which did NOT resolve the issues.

i have posted this same issues multiple times in the past and doing so again on various threads.
The SC team is ignoring the fact that they have broken the damn IBKR support.



here is the same log as the above user on a brand new install (again, I also posted in the past that if I use version 2282, this will work just fine).


Interactive Brokers | Market data type is Live for LAC-STK-SMART-USD | 2021-12-08 06:26:28.518
AMZN Daily #1 | Reloading chart. | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.355
Enabling compression for file: C:\SierraChart\Data\AMZN.dly. This may take a while. | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.358
File compression enabled. C:\SierraChart\Data\AMZN.dly. CompressionState=0 | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.358
AMZN Daily #1 | Currently no data in file to display. Will start historical data download and real-time updates. File: C:\SierraChart\Data\AMZN.dly | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.362
Starting DelayedDownloadMonitoringTimer | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Starting HDTimeoutTimer | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Added historical Daily data request for AMZN to the queue. | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Triggering next historical data download in queue. | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Interactive Brokers | Starting real-time market data updates for: AMZN. ID: 8 | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to real-time True Data for symbol: AMZN SecurityType: STK Exchange: SMART Currency: | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to Symbol: AMZN, SecurityType: STK, Expiration: , Exchange: SMART, Primary Exchange: , Currency: USD, Multiplier: , CallPut: , Strike: , LocalSymbol: , TradingClass: | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
Interactive Brokers | Requesting security definition data for: AMZN. ID: 8 | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.845
HD Request # 1 | Downloading Historical Daily chart data for AMZN. Starting date: 1971-12-08. Service: interactive_brokers.trading | 2021-12-08 06:27:05.846
Symbol Error - AMZN is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for AMZN is ambiguous;
you must specify the currency. | 2021-12-08 06:27:06.044
Interactive Brokers | Market data type is Live for AMZN | 2021-12-08 06:27:06.053
HD Request # 1 | Requesting historical Daily data for AMZN starting at 1971-12-07. SC External HD service. | 2021-12-08 06:27:06.650
HD Request # 1 | Receiving historical Daily data for AMZN starting at 1997-05-15 | 2021-12-08 06:27:06.952
HD Request # 1 | Writing historical Daily data to the file AMZN.dly | 2021-12-08 06:27:06.952
HD Request # 1 | Bytes received: 307788 | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.149
HD Request # 1 | Received 6183 Daily data records from 1997-05-15 00:00:00 to 2021-12-07 00:00:00 (24.6years) and wrote 6183 records for AMZN | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.150
HD Request # 1 | Completion time: 2s | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.150
HD Request # 1 | Daily data download complete for AMZN. Unique request ID: 1 | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.150
Removing historical data download ID 1. | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.150

Triggering next historical data download in queue. | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.150
No download requests in the queue to start downloads for. | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.150
AMZN Daily #1 | Reloading chart. | 2021-12-08 06:27:07.356




Added historical Daily data request for AAPL to the queue. | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.378
Triggering next historical data download in queue. | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.378
Interactive Brokers | Starting real-time market data updates for: AAPL. ID: 9 | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.378
Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to real-time True Data for symbol: AAPL SecurityType: STK Exchange: SMART Currency: | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.378
Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to Symbol: AAPL, SecurityType: STK, Expiration: , Exchange: SMART, Primary Exchange: , Currency: , Multiplier: , CallPut: , Strike: , LocalSymbol: , TradingClass: | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.378
Interactive Brokers | Requesting security definition data for: AAPL. ID: 9 | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.378
HD Request # 2 | Downloading Historical Daily chart data for AAPL. Starting date: 1971-12-08. Service: interactive_brokers.trading | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.380
Symbol Error - AAPL is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for AAPL is ambiguous;
you must specify the currency. | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.480
Symbol Error - AAPL is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for AAPL is ambiguous;
you must specify the currency. | 2021-12-08 06:34:54.577
HD Request # 2 | Requesting historical Daily data for AAPL starting at 1971-12-07. SC External HD service. | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.193
HD Request # 2 | Receiving historical Daily data for AAPL starting at 1984-09-07 | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.440
HD Request # 2 | Writing historical Daily data to the file AAPL.dly | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.441
HD Request # 2 | Bytes received: 508204 | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685
HD Request # 2 | Received 9389 Daily data records from 1984-09-07 00:00:00 to 2021-12-07 00:00:00 (37.3years) and wrote 9389 records for AAPL | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685
HD Request # 2 | Completion time: 1s | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685
HD Request # 2 | Daily data download complete for AAPL. Unique request ID: 2 | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685
Removing historical data download ID 2. | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685

Triggering next historical data download in queue. | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685
No download requests in the queue to start downloads for. | 2021-12-08 06:34:55.685
AAPL Daily #1 | Reloading chart. | 2021-12-08 06:34:56.038
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2021-12-08 06:37:28
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