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IB Live Trading Help!
Blake Andersen
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Seeking Help

Hello,

After much research and testing, I am deciding to launch my first algo on IB. It has been trading paper money on IB with success over the past month. I launched the algo and it ran and created logs but it did not place orders. I opened a ticket with the IB help desk and asked what the problem was. They said that there was no record of any attempted orders coming from my account.

Is there anything additional that I have to add into the code for live trading with IB? I should mention that the strategy involves shorting leveraged etfs. I have tried the trades manually through IB and they work.

Can anyone help me on this?

Thank you in advance!

2 responses
Eric K

Just try to print more log infos and you will find the problem

Blake Andersen

I resolved this. There was an issue with my code causing the first trades to be delayed. Has been live trading for the past 2 months and has been outperforming.

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