Anyone get Traders Toolbox working with R2017b and Interactive Brokers?

Interactive Brokers told me it's a Matlab issue. Here's the error:

 Error in actxserver (line 86)         h=feval(['COM.' convertedProgID], 'server', machinename, interface);

Answer 1

[Yair Altman]

I believe that this problem is explained and answered here: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/371467-error-connecting-interactive-brokers-tws-to-matlab

You can also try the suggestions here: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/111625-trading-toolbox-connecting-to-interactive-broker

(and of course, you are always welcome to try my Java-based IB-Matlab connector, which does not use ActiveX/COM)

[John Lombardo]

I only posted the question about specifically R2017b because I had already searched and tried all the "fixes" you linked to and I have already wasted too much time on a product that should work without taking three days of tinkering to get it to work. Some of the talk is about rolling back to an older versions of the API because Matlab hasn't updated the toolbox.

Nevertheless, thank you for the response.

[Yair Altman]

So why don't you try IB-Matlab? I assure you that it works with the latest IB TWS/API, out-of-the-box in 5 minutes (including coffee). Is it not worth 3 workdays? Your time must be worth much more than that! It won't cost you anything to test the IB-Matlab trial, so what have you got to lose?

[John Lombardo]

I wasn't aware of that product. Apparently my research Googling wasn't enough! Maybe they need some search engine optimization. Anyway, I have just loaded the IB4m interface from Github and it is working. The commands are a little cryptic so for me there will be a longer learning curve compared to IB-Matlab. The documentation was written for a higher level, which is unfortunate. After just a glance, I like the simplicity of the commands in IB-Matlab. Of course this comes at a price! Nice product. Good luck. Thanks.