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Post From: Issues downloading IB symbols

[2016-02-03 01:05:59]
rhovega - Posts: 279
Error on VIX is now different. See below. Note I am using the symbol listed by SC as corresponding to IB.

$VIX 5 Min #10 | Currently no data in file to display. Will start historical data download and real-time updates. File: R:\Sierra\Sierra Data3\$VIX.scid | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Interactive Brokers | Starting real-time market data updates for: $VIX. ID: 10 | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Subscribing to real-time True Data for symbol: $VIX SecurityType: STK Exchange: SMART Currency: USD | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to Symbol: $VIX, SecurityType: STK, Expiration: , Exchange: SMART, Currency: USD, Multiplier: | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Intraday data recording state for symbol $VIX is set to download 'Pending'. | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Downloading Intraday chart data for $VIX to the file $VIX.scid. Service: cboe.index | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Download start Date-Time: 2015-07-31 20:56:23.000 | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Requesting a total of 186 days and 4800 seconds. | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | IB Backfill - Seconds requested: 86400. Seconds Remaining: 15988800. | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Requesting 1 Day of data at 30 secs with ending Date-Time at 2015-08-01 20:46:23 for $VIX | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Symbol Error - $VIX is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. No security definition has been found for the request | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Symbol Error - $VIX is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. No security definition has been found for the request | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Message from IB: No security definition has been found for the request. IB Error Code: 200. Request ID: 11. | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Error downloading historical Intraday data for $VIX. The symbol is unknown to the server. | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Received 0 records from 00:00:00 to 00:00:00 (0.0 seconds) and wrote 0 records for $VIX | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
HD Request # 8 | Intraday download COMPLETE for $VIX. Completion time: 0s. Unique request ID: 7 | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Removed historical data download ID 7 | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Real-time Intraday chart data file updates started for $VIX | 2016-02-02 19:56:23

Symbol Error - $VIX is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. No security definition has been found for the request | 2016-02-02 19:56:23
Message from IB: No historical data query found for ticker id:11. IB Error Code: 366. Request ID: 11. | 2016-02-02 19:56:23