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Post From: VIX futures via IB

[2015-09-02 19:53:38]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
This is the problem:


Symbol Error - VIX-201509-CFE-USD-1000 is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for VIX is ambiguous. | 2015-09-02 15:33:06
Symbol Error - VIX-201509-CFE-USD-1000 is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for VIX is ambiguous. | 2015-09-02 15:33:06

This clearly is a problem on the Interactive Brokers side because that symbol is definitely not ambiguous. Not at all. You will need to contact Interactive Brokers for help with this.

Explain to them, the relevant contract details are specified when requesting market data using the different parts of this symbol:
VIX-201509-CFE-USD-1000

And the TWS API is still saying it is ambiguous.
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level

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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2015-09-02 19:54:15