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Interactive Brokers Live Paper Trading: IB reports there is no current position in sid XXXX; removing from Quantopian blotter
Darth Xanther
posted Sep 20, 2016
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Hello,
I've been backtesting an algo for about 6 months and it runs smoothly without issue at various intervals in the past 4 years. I set up the algo to my IB paper account last night to watch it live paper trade. This morning I noticed it won't even trade the first trade.

In the "Orders and Fills" box I have:
Today's date with the Security XXXX with a market type order with XXXX Shares and the status is "Open". When I click on the "Open" it says: "Fill: XXXX shares at $0.00 on 2016-09-20 with the time it was suppose to order at.
In the logs it says: "(IB) IB reports there is no current position in sid XXXX; removing from Quantopian blotter" and for every minute since it says: "has open orders" (I programmed it to say this when there are open orders).

Could someone please enlighten me as to what is taking place and suggest how to resolve this.

2 responses
Jamie McCorriston
Sep 20, 2016

Hi Darth,

Did you happen to make a manual trade with IB? If not, could you send an email to [email protected]? In order to help solve the problem, we will likely need some more info.

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James Hutchison
Sep 20, 2016

paper trading is trading only on paper. live trading with IB is using real money, so there is no such thing as live paper trading with IB

looks like a bug if some sort in the integration with IB. your order is probably not being filled but for some reason quantopian thinks it is, then gets confused because there is a discrepancy between what it thinks you have and what IB is saying you have. maybe the order is being rejected? I'm imagining some response from IB where the order is rejected and the fill price is filled in with $0

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