I'm pretty sure I remember a sentence in the docs that says it's possible to exceed the stated bar limits but that the request may count as more than one for the purpose of pacing.
I suppose the only way to find out is experiment with it, but I've reached my limit of trying to document an undocumented and randomly changing api. I just use the old limits since I don't have a need to squeeze performance out of historical downloads.
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Hi Richard,
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I seems missed "the limits have been increased" event and so far using the limits which circulated the group years ago. This is the table I use (and documented in faq):
I'm most interested in 1sec historical bars.
The table above suggests the limit for 1sec historical bars is 2000 bars (which is only about 33 minutes).
Could you point me to some doc which describes the latest changed limits please?
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I checked "IB API - Guides" -> "Printable Reference Guide" and under "Valid Duration and Bar Size Settings for Historical Data Requests" they have old table, which says max duration for 1sec bars is 1800 (30 minutes) - same as last couple years.. and it is 3.(3) minutes shorter than actual max limit of 2000bars which is somehow not documented in official sources.
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It would be awesome to see increase in number of bars because we allowed to send only so many reqests per minute (I allow next historical data request after 10.1 seconds after previous was sent per each connected TWS account).
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thank you,
Dmitry
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