cannot find right symbol for Interactive Brokers

[bb2]

Hello,

I have been trying my code on the symbol EUR.USD-CASH-IDEALPRO successfully so far. The problem raises when I want to use another symbol with IBStore.

Following is my code:

    cerebro = bt.Cerebro(stdstats=False)
    
    ibstore = bt.stores.IBStore(host='127.0.0.1', port=7496, clientId=35)
    # data = ibstore.getdata(dataname='EUR.USD-CASH-IDEALPRO', fromdate=datetime.datetime(
    data = ibstore.getdata(dataname='ES.USD-FUT-GLOBEX-201806', fromdate=datetime.datetime(
        2018, 4, 1), todate=datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 1), timeframe=bt.TimeFrame.Days, reverse=False)

    cerebro.broker.setcash(10000.0)
    cerebro.broker.setcommission(commission=0.0)

    cerebro.adddata(data)
    cerebro.addstrategy(TestStrategy)

    print('Starting portfolio: %f' % cerebro.broker.getvalue())
    strats = cerebro.run()

    ss = strats[0]

    for each in ss.analyzers:
        each.print()


    cerebro.plot(volume=False, style='candle')
    print('Final portfolio: %f' % cerebro.broker.getvalue())

And I get the error:

Starting portfolio: 10000.000000
Server Version: 76
TWS Time at connection:20180514 15:17:36 Eastern European Time
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
~/Documents/Devel/trade/bt_basic.py in <module>()
    156 
    157     print('Starting portfolio: %f' % cerebro.broker.getvalue())
--> 158     strats = cerebro.run()
    159 
    160     ss = strats[0]

~/.virtualenvs/trade-7uGUPCDQ/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/cerebro.py in run(self, **kwargs)
   1125             # let's skip process "spawning"
   1126             for iterstrat in iterstrats:
-> 1127                 runstrat = self.runstrategies(iterstrat)
   1128                 self.runstrats.append(runstrat)
   1129                 if self._dooptimize:

~/.virtualenvs/trade-7uGUPCDQ/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/cerebro.py in runstrategies(self, iterstrat, predata)
   1299 
   1300             for strat in runstrats:
-> 1301                 strat._stop()
   1302 
   1303         self._broker.stop()

~/.virtualenvs/trade-7uGUPCDQ/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/strategy.py in _stop(self)
    459 
    460     def _stop(self):
--> 461         self.stop()
    462 
    463         for analyzer in itertools.chain(self.analyzers, self._slave_analyzers):

~/Documents/Devel/trade/bt_basic.py in stop(self)
     84 
     85     def stop(self):
---> 86         self.log('(MA Period %2d) Ending Value %.2f' % (self.params.maperiod, self.broker.getvalue()), doprint=True)
     87 
     88     def notify_order(self, order):

~/Documents/Devel/trade/bt_basic.py in log(self, txt, dt, doprint)
     21     def log(self, txt, dt=None, doprint=False):
     22         if self.params.printlog or doprint:
---> 23             dt = dt or self.datas[0].datetime.date(0)
     24             print('%s, %s' % (dt.isoformat(), txt))
     25 

~/.virtualenvs/trade-7uGUPCDQ/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/linebuffer.py in date(self, ago, tz, naive)
    389 
    390     def date(self, ago=0, tz=None, naive=True):
--> 391         return num2date(self.array[self.idx + ago],
    392                         tz=tz or self._tz, naive=naive).date()
    393 

IndexError: array index out of range

How can I resolve this issue?

[backtrader]

@eduedix said in cannot find right symbol for Interactive Brokers:

EUR.USD-CASH-IDEALPRO

This is for FOREX where the pair is EUR.USD

@eduedix said in cannot find right symbol for Interactive Brokers:

ES.USD-FUT-GLOBEX-201806

A future is not a forex pair and the currency is specified later, right after the exchange and before the expiration date.. See the reference here: Docs - Interactive Brokers

[bb2]

Thank you very much for the quick response!

I fixed the symbol name now and the dataname looks like this:
ES-FUT-GLOBEX-USD-201806. I do not receive any error anymore. However, the system stays in the DELAYED status forever. Do you have any idea what might be the problem here?

[backtrader]

That's usually due to lack of permissions to download real-time data.

[bb2]

I am doing paper trading only. The delay occurs for EURUSD for only 1-2 seconds though. I also have this problem when I want to work on historical data only (limited with fromdate and todate as parameters to getdata. Do you think this is a permission related issue?