What your code does not check for is whether the given price is a valid price. For example your forex example would allow a price step of 0.00001,...
You are welcome. "dollar per point" and "value per point" is the same for instruments which are denoted in USD. If you decide to use instruments...
It used to be eight, but has recently been increased to 32 connections. I have not tried this myself though.
I do not experience such problems when asking for multiple tickers sequentially. I'm downloading two year historical data for some 45 ETFs every...
This document is out of date and no longer maintained by IB. For the most recent document, which is being maintained, you better look here:...
Do you send all your requests through one socket client? Or do you use one socket client per request? If you use one socket client then I can...
And in the sense of true customer service, did they not include an overview of the changes. Yahoo only included a link to the webpage where the...
Strange. I have thus far no negative experiences with reqContractDetails.
Which of the two steps resulted in an error? The step where you ask for contract details for all available contracts, or the step where you...
What do you mean by "15 seconds time restrictions between requests"? If you are requesting live market data you can do so for 100 tickers in...
I see: I overlooked that OP wants to download the entire chain.
When requesting data on an option, do you need to specify whether you want Call or Put options?
IB does not close positions precisely at the close. They allow themselves a certain time window to do this....
It depends from contract to contract. Let's take your example first: YF (heating oil). The CME page of this contract is here:...
I'm not sure but recall reading somewhere that it was related to counting odd lots: some say that the IB data does not contain the volume of odd lots.
I get the impression that this database does not include ETFs. I tried QQQ, SPY and some others, but no luck.
For futures you could go and read the contract specification. The value per point is written in those specifications. Another way is to place a...
An other possible solution could be to store for each instrument its specific price step size. And represent the price as a multiple of this step...
I got that impression, reading your previous message. Which is why I included my opinion of not changing the volatility target setting, even...
For comparison: I am using a 25% annual volatility target. My account value went down by 9% during May17th. The largest portion of this happened...
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