I have a demo account for IB, have installed the IB Gateway, and am trying to get Zorro to connect. I'm getting the following error message whenever I click on "Trade":

"!The TWS is out of date and must be upgraded."

This is odd, as I literally just downloaded it today from here:
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=16457

Is this not the right location to get the API, or am I doing something else wrong?

After the above error message, I'm also getting this error:

"Couldn't connect to TWS. Confirm that "Enable A..."

Where you see "..." the message is cut off. It is not clear to me how I can see the rest of the error message. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I can't answer why your TWS is out of date - that's an issue for IB support - but you can see the rest of the error message in the log. Alternatively, double click into the message window - that will copy the message to the clipboard.

Thanks for the double click advice. Very useful.

For some reason today, even though I've not changed anything, I'm no longer getting the error message for TWS being out of date. Instead, I'm getting this:

"Login IB (demo)..
!IB Socket connected at UTC 22.07. 22:18
!Account DU424687
Subscribe TSLA
!Requested market data is not subscribed.Error&BEST/STK/Top&BEST/STK/Top
Error 053: TSLA not available at this time
No bars generated
Logout.. ok
Copied to Clipboard!"

Is it because the markets are now closed? I realize I'm not going to be able to trade in the demo account with the markets closed, but I'm just trying to test connecting zorro to IB. Please advise.

Thanks!

Any advice?

IB already advised you: subscribe their market data.

Also look in the manual under "IB" about what you need to know for trading with IB.

I am subscribed to their data, through my primary account. I do not (yet) want to connect zorro to my live account and trade with it until I've done some trading in my paper account. Do I have to subscribe to data in my paper account as well?

I don't think so. I can trade with my paper and normal account, but have certainly not twice paid for market data. Maybe you have to activate your subscription for the paper account also. Contact IB support - they should know.

You're right. I had to activate it for the paper account. By default it is not active, which is kind of stupid in my opinion, but at least I was able to resolve it. Thanks!

Having said that, while z8 now runs and I can see in my IB portfolio that it did in fact execute some buy orders, I'm still getting errors from zorro:


What is error 062?

And I'm also getting a bunch of these warnings:



Is it safe to ignore the Order Event Warnings?

Thanks!

This anything to worry about? Just looking up that error in help I get:



I did a search through the zorro install directory and z8.par was not found.

Please advise.

You can ignore the message. - In case of such problems, look also in the recent bug list. Normally such a problem was already encountered by other people and is commented in the list.