Symbology Problem

[yurips]

Finished backtesting and paper-trading my first eSignal system - now trying to auto-trade thru IB. I appear to be having a Symbology problem.
The attached image shows the problem - the eSig and IB symbol conversion is fine - but I key in GLOBEX for the exchange and save it - but when an order is issued or I go to look at it in Symbology, GLOBEX has been changed to SMART.
I've tried going back into Symbology edit and changing SMART to GLOBEX and saving (then clicking OK to exit Symbology), but same results.

I'm OK with skipping Symbology and just keying the symbol etc into the order - this is what I have in my code:
trade.Buy(getSymbol(), 1, IBBroker.MARKET);
What would I replace "getSymbol()" with for the ES mini?

[yurips]

Next Step

Inside my EFS:
trade.Buy("ER2^FUT^GLOBEX^200606", 1, IBBroker.MARKET);

When a trade is triggered I get the below two Popups in succession.
So now I'm totally stuck:
1 - If I enter a futures symol in Symbology, the Exchange will be changed to SMART
2 - if I try to trade directly from EFS, the trade gets intercepted by Symbology telling me I don't have an entry.

Either one of two solutions will help:
A) How can I get Symbology to accpet GLOBEX as an Exchnage
...OR...
B) How can I disbale Symbology lookups so I can trade directly from EFS?

[yurips]

This issue of changing GLOBEX to SMART seems pervasive.
Referencing the attached image:
-I attached an order ticket to a Russell mini chart.
-I tried to buy at market, as shown.
-Symbology intercepts, I put in GLOBEX, and transmit order.
-I go look in Symbology, and GLOBEX has been changed to SMART.
Is this something I can help with?

[eSignal_Brent]

Save Exchange in User Preferences

Hi yurips,

Thank you for reporting that. I'll check with engineering and see when we can implement a build that saves the pre-set preferences (in this case, "Exchange").

Brent
Integrated Trading Product Management

[escti89]

Limit Order

Hello all,

I am having a problem submitting a limit order to IB.

This function works just fine:

sellMarket("YM M6", 1, "ECBOT");

It sends a sellMarket order to TWS and excecutes just fine.


However, I cannot get this function to work:

sellLimit("YM M6", 1, 11206, "ECBOT", SB_DAY);

It sends the order to IB. But it puts an infinity sign in the Limit Price box. It also gives me this error inside the broker window within eSignal:

IB ERROR: The price specified would violate the percentage constraint specified in the default order settings.

I get this error no matter what limit price I enter in. Is my syntax correct??? Am I overlooking something??? This problem is very frustrating!

[eSignal_Brent]

IB Integration

Hi escti89,

We implemented a re-engineered interface with IB that is in pre-release testing and may resolve this issue.
If you're interested in participating, either sendme a PM with your username or customer id, or send an email to "[email protected]" and we can provide a link to the necessary setup instructions and files.

Brent
Integrated Trading Product Management