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Opps, looks like CSIdata was the culprit, showing the back adjusted chart as /100. Checked with futuressource.

Red Herring with CBOT, got it to work once, but 'fortunately' could not reproduce.

Will cancel trouble ticker with IB. Thanks for your input 7432, got me eventually to the issue and ...

Thanks raised the issue as a trouble ticket with IB, problem does not occur on CBOT , only ECBOT.

This is the ticket I have raised:

Can put order on CBOT using IB (symbol ZR) as 9.660, however using IB and "ECBOT", given price for entry appears to require factor of 100 times, example instead of 9 ...

Thanks for the reply , pretty sure though that is not it. Have you tried that theory on the paper account in IB ? I could be wrong, don't mind being smacked down for disregarding your post ... as I tried multiple attempts ... 1st contract I have had with this issue.

Next stop is asking IB, but ...

IB does not seem to like me entering the price of Rough Rice as example,
entry 9.660, as says "0.0966 does not conform to the minimum price variation of 0.005 for this contract".

If you do a market order, the price is in the 9.xx range, however seems a conditional order needs to be 100x the price ...

Thanks Levijean,

I used the following code where suggested,


broker.ExitAllUnitsAtLimitClose(0)

appears to work a treat.

Much thanks !

Hi, hope this has not been covered elsewhere, trying to work out the code for entering on say the open, and exiting at the price of the same day close, so the trade is only open for one day.

Any help appreciated.