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Post From: NIY symbol not working any longer
| [2016-02-04 02:49:44] |
| rhovega - Posts: 279 |
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This is the error using the code for IB provided by the SC symbols index. Interactive Brokers | Using primary service for historical data. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 NIY-201603-GLOBEX 5 Min #11 | Currently no data in file to display. Will start historical data download and real-time updates. File: R:\Sierra\Sierra Data3\NIY-201603-GLOBEX.scid | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Interactive Brokers | Starting real-time market data updates for: NIY-201603-GLOBEX. ID: 237 | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Subscribing to real-time True Data for symbol: NIY SecurityType: FUT Exchange: GLOBEX Currency: | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Interactive Brokers | Subscribing to Symbol: NIY, SecurityType: FUT, Expiration: 201603, Exchange: GLOBEX, Currency: , Multiplier: | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Interactive Brokers | Using primary service for historical data. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Intraday data recording state for symbol NIY-201603-GLOBEX is set to download 'Pending'. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Downloading Intraday chart data for NIY-201603-GLOBEX to the file NIY-201603-GLOBEX.scid. Service: ib | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Compressing file: R:\Sierra\Sierra Data3\NIY-201603-GLOBEX.scid. This may take a while. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Download start Date-Time: 2015-08-01 22:46:21.000 | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Requesting a total of 60 days and 0 seconds. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | IB Backfill - Seconds requested: 86400. Seconds Remaining: 5097600. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Requesting 1 Day of data at 30 secs with ending Date-Time at 2015-12-06 22:56:21 for NIY-201603-GLOBEX | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Symbol Error - NIY-201603-GLOBEX is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for NIY is ambiguous; you must specify the currency. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Symbol Error - NIY-201603-GLOBEX is unknown, unavailable, or improperly formatted. The contract description specified for NIY is ambiguous; you must specify the currency. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Message from IB: The contract description specified for NIY is ambiguous; you must specify the currency. IB Error Code: 200. Request ID: 238. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Error downloading historical Intraday data for NIY-201603-GLOBEX. The symbol is unknown to the server. | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Received 0 records from 00:00:00 to 00:00:00 (0.0 seconds) and wrote 0 records for NIY-201603-GLOBEX | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 HD Request # 16 | Intraday download COMPLETE for NIY-201603-GLOBEX. Completion time: 0s. Unique request ID: 16 | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Removed historical data download ID 16 | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Real-time Intraday chart data file updates started for NIY-201603-GLOBEX | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 Intraday chart data file opened for NIY-201603-GLOBEX | 2016-02-03 21:46:21 |