Help with Data Feed not recognized for IB Live Trading

esondrstd

Hi ,

I'm trying to add the following datafeed (TICK-NYSE) to the ibstore, but i keep getting a disconnected error (all other feeds working fine).

Interestingly, I tested this ticker with a direct call to IB (using reqMktData() and reqHistoricalData() in a separate program (see below), and was able to get the data (TickTypes 1,2, and 4 had information, and TickType 4 ('LAST') was the data i needed.

Wondering if this has to do with the fact that the sectype is an "IND" - saw you had some exception handling in files like 'ibstore.py' for other sectypes like "CASH", but couldn't quite follow the code (I'm still a Python novice).

Any ideas on how to get this data working? Thanks in advance....

Backtrader Data Feed code:

store = bt.stores.IBStore(host='127.0.0.1',
			port=7497,
			clientId = 100)

#ADD MARKET BREADTH DATA LIKE TICK
indexdatalist = ['TICK-NYSE']  #MAKE SURE NO COMMAS AFTER LAST TICKER
for i,j in enumerate(indexdatalist):
	tickdata = store.getdata(dataname=j,
				sectype='IND',
				exchange='NYSE',
				currency='USD',
				timeframe=bt.TimeFrame.Minutes,
				what = 'TRADES',
				tz = pytz.timezone('US/Central'),
				sessionstart = session_start,
				sessionend = session_end,
				)

Here is the error message:

Datas in Strategy TICK-NYSE0
Start preloading data to meet minimum data requirements
***** DATA NOTIF: DISCONNECTED

Here is the separate program (direct call to IB outside backtrader framework) where data feed works:

from ibapi.client import EClient
from ibapi.wrapper import EWrapper
import threading
import time
from ibapi.ticktype import TickTypeEnum	
from ibapi.contract import Contract
#from ibapi.ticktype import TickTypeEnum
							
class IBapi(EWrapper, EClient):
    def __init__(self):
        EClient.__init__(self, self)
    def tickPrice(self, reqId, tickType, price, attrib):
	print(tickType,price)
									
    def historicalData(self, reqId, bar):
	print(f'Time: {bar.date} Close: {bar.close}')
	app.data.append([bar.date, bar.close])						

def run_loop():
	app.run()

app = IBapi()
app.connect('127.0.0.1', 7497, 100)

#Start the socket in a thread
api_thread = threading.Thread(target=run_loop, daemon=True)
api_thread.start()

time.sleep(1) #Sleep interval to allow time for connection to server

#Create contract object
contract = Contract()

contract.symbol = 'TICK-NYSE'
contract.secType = 'IND'
contract.exchange = 'NYSE'
contract.currency = 'USD'
#Request Market Data
app.reqMktData(1, contract, '' , False, False, [])

app.data = [] #Initialize variable to store candle

#Historical Candlestick data request
app.reqHistoricalData(1, contract, '', '2 D', '1 hour', 'TRADES', 0, 2, True, [])

time.sleep(10) #Sleep interval to allow time for incoming price data

Here's the data loaded from the above program:

ERROR:ibapi.wrapper:ERROR -1 2104 Market data farm connection is OK:usfarm
ERROR:ibapi.wrapper:ERROR -1 2106 HMDS data farm connection is OK:ushmds.nj
ERROR:ibapi.wrapper:ERROR -1 2106 HMDS data farm connection is OK:cashhmds
ERROR:ibapi.wrapper:ERROR -1 2106 HMDS data farm connection is OK:ushmds
ERROR:ibapi.wrapper:ERROR -1 2158 Sec-def data farm connection is OK:secdefnj
Time: 1586352600 Close: -353.0
Time: 1586354400 Close: 134.0
Time: 1586358000 Close: 0.0
Time: 1586361600 Close: -63.0
Time: 1586365200 Close: -287.0
Time: 1586368800 Close: 59.0
Time: 1586372400 Close: 15.0
Time: 1586439000 Close: 246.0
Time: 1586440800 Close: 123.0
Time: 1586444400 Close: 220.0
Time: 1586448000 Close: -31.0
Time: 1586451600 Close: -5.0
Time: 1586455200 Close: 269.0
Time: 1586458800 Close: -538.0
ERROR:ibapi.wrapper:ERROR -1 2104 Market data farm connection is OK:usfarm.nj
1 -1.0
2 -1.0
4 -402.0
9 0.0
4 -334.0
4 -234.0
4 -218.0
4 -302.0

esondrstd

Just following up on this. I figured out why the ticker was not recognized (Backtrader's parsing logic parses with a '-' which was effectively splitting the ticker name into 2 separate parts) - I tweaked the code to bypass the parser for this ticker.

I can now see prices streaming for TICK-NYSE, but only when i print "price" from within the RTVolume Class of ibstore.py. When outputted by next() at my time interval, i only see prices of -1. Any ideas?