MATLAB: Trading toolbox problems with IB API

Question

Approx 2 years (and several MatLab versions) ago – I had a problem using the IB API with MatLab – which many others seem to have also encountered.

This turned out to be due to the fact that at some point previously IB had changed their COM server's ProgID from 'TWS.TwsCtrl.1' to 'TWS.TwsCtrl' – which broke the Trading Toolbox code – which seems to assume a ProgId of 'TWS.TwsCtrl.1'.

Back then I was using version 2016b – and the only solution that worked at all seemed to be revert to an older version of the IB API.

I have recently updated MatLab to Vn 2019a, and installed the latest IB API – as far I can see this still does not work for the same reason.

Is it really true that this problem – which stops the toolbox working all together in this situation – has not been fixed in the last 2 years ?

Or is there some new fix / workaround ?

A

Answer 1

I have just started looking at the IB Restful API - in a few hours I have managed to install it and replicate most of the functionality that I was (or was trying) to use in the Trading Toolbox - and it seems quite straightforward. This looks like the way to go.