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Post From: Initialization Error

[2016-07-29 19:57:10]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
The Trade Activity data in post #31 has always concerned us due to an inconsistency between the Internal Position Quantity and the PositionQuantity field of the trade activity data.

Order 2016-06-14 06:36:40.196 AAPL-OPT-20160617-98-C Synchronized Internal Position to current Service Position. Current Position quantity: 0 Unspecified U1644808
Fill 2016-06-14 06:36:32.193 AAPL-OPT-20160617-98-C-SMART-100-USD IB order fill (execution) 116395 10949 Limit 1 Sell 0.98 Filled 0.98 1 U1644808 Open -1 00014980.575fec4f.01.01
Order 2016-06-14 06:36:32.192 AAPL-OPT-20160617-98-C Updated Internal Position Quantity to -1 Unspecified U1644808
Order 2016-06-14 06:36:32.191 AAPL-OPT-20160617-98-C-SMART-100-USD IB order fill (execution) 116395 10949 Limit 1 Sell 0.98 Filled 0.98 1 U1644808 Close 1

We now realize why that happened. It is fixed in 1448. It actually started to occur when we added support for using the fill calculated Trade Position data when trading a symbol different than the chart. This was something that we had added for you.

However, we must make it abundantly clear that this was nothing more than a Position Quantity logging issue in the Trade Activity Log. And not the cause of this:
Synchronized Internal Position to current Service Position. Current Position quantity: 0

What was happening was harmless, but under some conditions could be giving incorrect Position Quantity data in the log. The Position data displayed on the Positions tab of the Trade Orders and Positions window was always correct.

There still is the ongoing problem where Interactive Brokers TWS is not sending Position updates. We have seen it ourselves during testing and other users experience it as well. This is something that we cannot solve and Interactive Brokers must fix on their side.
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level

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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2016-07-29 20:01:05