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TWS/IB Gateway don't respond to orders submitted from Sierra Chart

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[2020-03-25 23:47:12]
User257506 - Posts: 9
I followed the instructions to setup Sierra Chart connection to Trader Workstation/IB Gateway to trading on simulated account (IBKR paper account).

I acquired data market feed from IBKR to see real time futures contracts (MES in this case). I could open this symbol on Sierra Chart, which showed the corresponding chart successfully.

Then I submitted several orders from Sierra Chart but neither TWS nor IB Gateway didn't respond to it, in any way.

That's to say, I bought/sold several times a MES contract but IBKR paper account didn't show any order submitted, neither TWS nor IB Gateway.

Then I looked on Sierra Chart trade activity log, field: Order Action Source I read: "Trade simulation fill" for every order submitted by me.

I setted TWS to get the log files (log.day.txt and api.clientId.day.log) but in C:/JTS I could not find these files (well, this is a ibkr problem)

Any idea on how I can solve this issue?
[2020-03-25 23:53:03]
SKZ90 - Posts: 74
Are you still in Trade Simulation mode?
[2020-03-25 23:55:54]
User257506 - Posts: 9
I closed Sierra Chart platform and TWS too.
[2020-03-25 23:59:27]
SKZ90 - Posts: 74
I meant, did you check to make sure this isn't checked? See picture.
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[2020-03-26 00:02:27]
User257506 - Posts: 9
It's checked on my platform. I have "Trade simulation mode on" checked
[2020-03-26 00:05:14]
SKZ90 - Posts: 74
I believe you have to uncheck that to send the orders externally to TWS, live or paper trading account.
[2020-03-26 00:11:20]
User257506 - Posts: 9
Thx, user 827954 ... it worked good.

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