Recent content by Oliver West

I’m in the UK and the connection went down for me at 12:39 yesterday (19th) and went down again today at 12:56. On both occasions it stayed down for the remainder of the day. Anyone else have problems today as well? I wasn’t watching the system so I never noticed until after the close...

Thanks for the reply. I didn’t know Interactive Brokers had a forum so that’s useful to know about. I also hadn’t realised that each client had its own set of orderIDs so that order 1 in client 0 would be different to order 1 from client 1. I therefore thought that incrementing it...

I’m having a bit of an issue with order IDs using the C++ API. nextValidId() is called when you connect giving you the order ID to use for your first order. When I send an order I call reqIds() so as to make an new order ID available for my next order. This works fine if orders aren’t...