PRT-IG API and missing transaction
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PeterSt.
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01/22/2022 at 3:55 PM #186305
Hi all, I have been developing a simple script ie Go short on the VIX when the price is above the upper bollinger band then Exit short when the price is below the lower bollinger band. Out of 3 sessions 19, 20, 21 Jan when VIX price was above the bollinger upper band only 1 trade transaction was opened in IG on the 19 Jan but the other 2 were missing – has anyone experienced similar issues with PRT-IG API integration? The back testing was performed with these 3 transactions working or displayed, just the PRT-IG Live environment that is giving a problem.
01/22/2022 at 4:35 PM #186313ProOrder is the correct support forum for this question.
I moved it from ProBuilder.
01/23/2022 at 3:02 AM #186342@micquan – Is that (as you call it) PRT-IG API integration one where you must leave your PC running ? the same with some IG instance ? (I know IG has an API but I have never really seen / used it).
If so, why are you actually using that ? or don’t you reside in the UK ?
And if so, I can imagine all sorts of reasons that your orders were not filled. We can talk about that further, “if so” indeed.
01/25/2022 at 8:29 AM #186537@PeterSt, PRT is integrated into the IG brokerage trading platform where they are 100% SaaS so no need to install any full software locally on our PC. As a result, we traders do not have access to their log files or detailed data, when there are problems between the backtesting and live environment it is impossible to troubleshoot. When PRT advises as a trading software for professionals that isn’t true as it lacks many professional features at the system level and even the coding structure does not follow the programming logic as I found out the hard way. I will try to get my code working with IG but I am looking into Ninja Trader and IB as well just in case PRT does not work with IG. Unfortunately for retail traders we don’t have access to the best and affordable trading software.
01/25/2022 at 10:15 AM #186562@micquan, emm … I understand what you are saying, but I don’t get much why you are saying it.
@micquan – Is that (as you call it) PRT-IG API integration one where you must leave your PC running ? the same with some IG instance ? (I know IG has an API but I have never really seen / used it).That was my question, and I did not see an answer to it. 😉
When I work with the API (PRT-API to IB) then there’s also no local install. It is not about that. But it is about the answer to my question.
I don’t recognize your issues at all, BUT they can be explained by using an API as such. But I don’t know the API from IG really. Please notice :In this community I personally never ran into someone using the (or “a”) API from IG. But you apparently do use that. So you must be working with something different from all others. Maybe I just miss it all ?
And so the question is also, why do you use that API ? My hint was that you don’t reside in the UK. I don’t have any other ideas.As a result, we traders do not have access to their log files or detailed data
It is even worse;
The fact that you use “the” (??) API, means that even PRT themselves have no access to log data, because it doesn’t run server side.
Maybe you start to get what my questions are about ? 🙂Btw, I am trying to help. Haha.
01/25/2022 at 11:10 AM #186571I was trying to answer your questions about the API and access to the system level data, and where I think the problem is. The PRT software is what IG offers to their active traders so I don’t have a choice. If I want to automate my trading then PRT is all I have. If PRT tell me that it works better with IB then I might move from IG to IB in order to meet my main objective which is to automate my tradings. I do appreciate your support and the support of other Masters who are helping me to find my way around PRT, the good and the bad.
01/25/2022 at 11:48 AM #186576All right. What tells you that you are using an API ? I use IG and I see nothing about an API (while I sure know that IG has one).
Is it something you just “thought as how it would be” ?
Or else, can you show something from that API (usage) ?I hope it is clear that a very visible explicit API interface exists, which would be visible on the PRT side, and which will requite some settings at the broker’s side ?
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