Ready to trade Live. How to setup account

[moscu]

Ok,

So I bouth the live trading license and I setup NT to trade live but I am getting error:

2/26/2008 12:49:32 PM,ATI,OIF, 'PLACE;baron772;MCO;SELL;100;MARKET;0;0;DAY;;MCO-1080226-1249-83;;' account does not exist 'myaccount',
2/26/2008 12:49:32 PM,ATI,AT, 'PLACE;myaccount;MCO;SELL;100;MARKET;0;0;DAY;;MCO-1080226-1249-83;;' processing

I substituted my real account with the name myaccount.

Here are the steps I follow to enable real time trading with Interactive brokers:
File->Global Simulation Mode turn off
I added my IB user name/password to the connection dialog (This should be optional)
Check off "Always start in simulation"

Not sure what else I am missing.

I had couple trades executed with the 'Sim101' account.

Moscu

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

you are missing your real account number, you can see this in the lines you pasted in. What's being passed into the DLL function is the string 'myaccount' itself and not your actual account number.

[moscu]

NinjaTrader_Ray:

I am passing my real account I just edit the log lines so that my REAL ACCOUNT it is not printed in this thread.

Moscu

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Thanks for the clarification. The problem is still there though...

account does not exist 'myaccount',

This error suggests that you are passing in the incorrect account number.

[moscu]

I know the problem is there because I keep getting the same error. NinjaTrader is able to reconnect to IB automatically. Therefore I have the correct account in the connection. The account panel is still showing Sim01 account. The ATI panel does not allow to enter a new account. Where do I enter my account name in NinjaTrader if necessary. I am sending the correct account name in the order message because I see it printing in the log file.

Do you have any up to date instructions how to go live. The only ones I found are obsolete.

Moscu

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

The account name that you pass in must be identical to the one of the account names that you see in the Control Center Orders tab account drop down list when you connect to IB.

I am not sure what you mean by live instructions. If you were able to run using the Sim101 account the only difference is the account name.

[moscu]

Found the error, for some reason the license did not update properly. Now it shows my account in the dropdown list and I can set it to be the default.

Thanks,