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Re: [amibroker] Re: IB backfill for ETFs



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Hello,

Market maker designation is not required, however when default SMART
routing does not yield desired results, you need to specify exchange (AMEX):

So use:

IWM-AMEX
EWG-AMEX

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "af_1000000" <af_1000000@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:12 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: IB backfill for ETFs


> Hi,
> 
> I have exchanged few e-mails with IB regarding ARCA Stk access.
> I sent the daily TWS log file, so they were able to analyze it.
> 
> The bottom line is:
> 1. Using my account I can see all quotes regardless of the exchange
> (either ARCA or ISLAND).
> 2. I can see historical data on TWS charts regardless of the exchange.
> 3. Log file indicates that I do not have access to ARCA (when trying
> to backfill IWM, EWG, EWU,..... from AB. I was able to view
> corresponding charts in TWS.
> 
> Based on these three facts IB concludes:
> 
> 1.TWS is OK because I can do everything within TWS I am supposed to.
> 2.They cannot take responsibilities for third part application (fair
> statement).
> 3.Something is wrong between TWS and AB.
> This is a copy of their conclusion:
> 
> "More than likely even though you are using AmiBroker and changed to
> Island the request is not structured to request historical data from
> the Island Exchange in the backend of AmiBroker. In this case you will
> need to signup for ARCA Market data permissions."
> 
> I wonder whether they change the connection ID behind the scenes when
> they access exchange data from TWS ?
> 
> Tomasz, is there anything you can do to make it work from AB ?
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> AF
> 
> 
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