API Message Codes

Code

Description

100

Max rate of messages per second has been exceeded.

101

Max number of tickers has been reached.

102

Duplicate ticker ID.

103

Duplicate order ID.

104

Can't modify a filled order.

105

Order being modified does not match original order.

106

Can't transmit order ID.

107

Cannot transmit incomplete order.

109

Price is out of the range defined by the Percent Setting at order defaults frame. The order will not be transmitted.

110

The price does not conform to the minimum price variation for this contract.

111

The Time in force (tif type) and the order type are incompatible.

113

The Tif option should be set to DAY for MOC and LOC orders.

114

Relative orders are valid for stocks only.

115

Relative orders for US stocks can only be submitted to SMART, SMART_ECN, INSTINET, or PRIMEX.

116

The order cannot be transmitted to a dead exchange.

117

The block order size must be at least 50.

118

VWAP orders must be routed through the VWAP exchange.

119

Only VWAP orders may be placed on the VWAP exchange.

120

It is too late to place a VWAP order for today.

121

Invalid BD flag for the order. Check "Destination" and "BD" flag.

122

No request tag has been found for order:

123

No record is available for conid:

124

No market rule is available for conid:

125

Buy price must be the same as the best asking price.

126

Sell price must be the same as the best bidding price.

127

Linkage orders are not supported on this exchange.

128

Linkage customers cannot submit non-linkage orders for options.

129

VWAP orders must be submitted at least three minutes before the start time.

131

The sweep-to-fill flag and display size are only valid for US stocks routed through SMART, and will be ignored.

132

This order cannot be transmitted without a clearing account.

133

Submit new order failed.

134

Modify order failed.

135

Can't find order with ID =

136

This order cannot be cancelled.

137

VWAP orders can only be cancelled up to three minutes before the start time.

138

Could not parse ticker request.

139

Parsing error:

140

The size value should be an integer:

141

The price value should be a double:

142

Institutional customer account does not have account info

143

Requested ID is not an integer number.

144

Order size does not match total share allocation.

145

Error in validating entry fields.

146

Invalid trigger method.

147

The conditional contract info is incomplete.

148

A conditional order can only be submitted when the order type is set to limit or market.

151

This order cannot be transmitted without a user name.

152

The "hidden" order attribute may not be specified for this order.

153

EFPs can only be limit orders.

154

Orders cannot be transmitted for a halted security.

155

A sizeOp order must have a username and account.

156

A SizeOp order must go to IBSX

157

An order can be EITHER Iceberg or Discretionary. Please remove either the Discretionary amount or the Display size.

158

You must specify an offset amount or a percent offset value.

159

The percent offset value must be between 0% and 100%.

160

The size value cannot be zero.

161

Cancel attempted when order is not in a cancellable state. Order permId =

162

Historical market data Service error message.

165

Historical market Data Service query message.

166

HMDS Expired Contract Violation.

167

VWAP order time must be in the future.

168

Discretionary amount does not conform to the minimum price variation for this contract.

Code

Description

200

No security definition has been found for the request.

201

Order rejected - Reason:

202

Order cancelled - Reason:

203

The security ( ) is not available or allowed for this account.

Code

Description

300

Can't find EId with ticker Id:

301

Invalid ticker action:

302

Error parsing stop ticker string

303

Invalid action:

304

Invalid acct. value action:

305

Request parsing error, the request has been ignored.

306

Error processing DDE request.

307

Invalid request topic.

308

Unable to create the 'API' page in TWS as the maximum number of pages already exists.

309

Max number (3) of market depth requests has been reached.

Note:   TWS currently limits users to a maximum of 3 distinct market depth requests. This same restriction applies to API clients, however API clients may make multiple market depth requests for the same security.

310

Can't find the subscribed market depth with tickerId:

311

The origin is invalid.

312

The combo details are invalid.

313

The combo details for leg '<leg number>' are invalid.

314

Security type 'BAG' requires combo leg details.

315

Stock combo legs are restricted to SMART order routing.

316

Market depth data has been HALTED. Please re-subscribe.

317

Market depth data has been RESET. Please empty deep book contents before applying any new entries.

318

Advisors cannot modify partially filled orders.

319

Attempt to set the server log level failed as the log level was invalid.

320

Server error when reading an API client request.

321

Server error when validating an API client request.

322

Server error when processing an API client request.

323

Server error: cause - %s

324

Server error when reading a DDE client request - missing data.

325

Discretionary orders are not supported for this combination of exchange and order type.

326

Unable connect as the client id is already in use. Retry with a unique client id.

327

Only API connections with clientId set to 0 can set the auto bind TWS orders property.

328

Trailing stop orders can be attached to limit or stop-limit orders only.

329

Order modify failed. Cannot change to the new order type.

330

Only FA or STL customers can request managed accounts list.

331

Internal error. FA or STL does not have any managed accounts.

332

The account codes for the order profile are invalid.

333

Invalid share allocation syntax.

334

Invalid Good Till Date order

335

Invalid delta: The delta must be between 0 and 100.

336

Invalid Expiration Time.

337

Invalid Good After Time.

338

Good After Time Disabled.

339

Futures spread no longer supported.

340

Invalid improvement amount.

341

Invalid delta.

342

Invalid Peg.

343

Invalid Good Till Date.

344

The account is not a financial advisor account

345

Invalid FA inter-market combo order.

346

Not an institutional account.

347

Invalid short slot value.

348

Not a short sale.

349

Invalid GAT inter-market combo.

350

Invalid minimum quantity for inter-market combo.

351

Invalid RTH only designation.

352

Bad short slot location.

353

Short slot location specified.

354

Not subscribed to market data.

355

Order size incorrect.

356

Smart-combo OCA not supported.

357

Your client version is out of date.

358

Smart combo child not supported.

359

Native combo OCA is incompatible.

360

What- if check not supported for this Smart inter-market combo.

361

Invalid trigger price.

362

Invalid adjusted stop price.

363

Invalid adjusted stop limit price.

364

Invalid adjusted trailing amount.

365

No scanner subscription found for ticker id:

366

No historical data query found for ticker id:

367

Volatility type if set must be 1 or 2 for VOL orders.

368

Reference Price Type must be 1 or 2 for dynamic volatility management.

369

Volatility orders are only valid for US options.

370

Dynamic Volatility orders must be SMART routed, or trade on a Price Improvement Exchange.

371

VOL order requires positive floating point value for volatility.

372

Cannot set dynamic VOL attribute on non-VOL order.

373

Can only set stock range attribute on VOL or PEGGED TO STOCK order.

374

If both are set, the lower stock range attribute must be less than the upper stock range attribute.

375

Stock range attributes cannot be negative.

376

The order is not eligible for continuous update. The option must trade on a cheap-to-reroute exchange.

377

Must specify valid delta hedge order aux. price.

378

Delta hedge order type requires delta hedge aux. price to be specified.

379

Delta hedge order type requires that no delta hedge aux. price be specified.

380

This order type is not allowed for delta hedge orders.

381

Your DDE.dll needs to be upgraded.

382

The price specified violates the number of ticks constraint specified in the default order settings.

383

The size specified violates the size constraint specified in the default order settings.

384

Invalid DDE array request.

385

Duplicate ticker ID for API scanner subscription.

386

Duplicate ticker ID for API historical data query.

387

Unsupported order type for this exchange and security type.

388

Order size is smaller than the minimum requirement.

389

Supplied routed order ID is not unique.

390

Supplied routed order ID is invalid.

391

Invalid date for GTD.

392

This order is invalid since is uses an expired contract.

393

The short slot order has not delta hedge order type.

394

Invalid process time.

395

Direct routed OCA error.

396

Direct routed order type error.

397

Region order type error.

398

Direct routed condition error placeholder.

399

Order message error

Code

Description

400

Algo order error.

401

Length restriction.

402

Conditions are not allowed for this contract.

403

Invalid stop price.

404

Allowed quantity message.

405

The child order quantity should be equivalent to the parent order size.

406

The currency (  ) is not allowed.

407

The symbol should contain valid non-unicode characters only.

408

Invalid scale order increment.

409

Invalid scale order. You must specify order component size.

410

Invalid subsequent component size for scale order.

411

Invalid outside RTH.

412

The contract is not available for trading.

413

What-if order should have the transmit flag set to true.

414

Do not use generic ticks for snapshot market data.

415

RFQ already sent for the conid.

416

RFQ not applicable for the contract. Order ID:

417

Invalid initial component size for scale order.

418

Invalid scale order profit offset.

419

Missing initial component size for scale order.

420

Invalid real-time query.

421

Invalid route.

422

Invalid OMS component attributes.

Code

Description

501

Already connected.

502

Couldn't connect to TWS. Confirm that API is enabled in TWS via the Configure>API menu command.

503

Your version of TWS is out of date and must be upgraded.

504

Not connected.

505

Fatal error: Unknown message id.

510

Request market data - sending error:

511

Cancel market data - sending error:

512

Order - sending error:

513

Account update request - sending error:

514

Request for executions  - sending error:

515

Cancel order - sending error:

516

Request open order - sending error:

517

Unknown contract. Verify the contract details supplied.

518

Request contract data - sending error:

519

Request market depth - sending error:

520

Cancel market depth - sending error:

521

Set server log level - sending error:

522

FA Information Request - sending error:

523

FA Information Replace - sending error:

524

Request Scanner subscription - sending error:

525

Cancel Scanner subscription - sending error:

526

Request Scanner parameter - sending error:

527

Request Historical data - sending error:

528

Cancel Historical data - sending error:

529

Request real-time bar data - sending error:

530

Cancel real-time bar data - sending error:

531

Request Current Time - Sending error:

Code

Description

1100

Connectivity between IB and TWS has been lost.

1101

Connectivity between IB and TWS has been restored- data lost.*

1102

Connectivity between IB and TWS has been restored- data maintained.

1300

TWS socket port has been reset and this connection is being dropped.

Please reconnect on the new port - <port_num>

*Market and account data subscription requests must be resubmitted

Code

Description

2100

New account data requested from TWS.  API client has been unsubscribed from account data.

2101

Unable to subscribe to account as the following clients are subscribed to a different account.

2102

Unable to modify this order as it is still being processed.

2103

A market data farm is disconnected.

2104

A market data farm is connected.

2105

A historical data farm is disconnected.

2106

A historical data farm is connected.

2107

A historical data farm connection has become inactive but should be available upon demand.

2108

A market data farm connection has become inactive but should be available upon demand.