Interactive Broker and Matlab connection on a Mac

On my Mac I get the error message "Error using actxserver (line 90) Server creation failed. Invalid ProgID 'TWS.TwsCtrl.1'. Error in ibtws" when typing the command ibtws('',7496); is this a Mac issue? (used API beta 9.73. Thank you for your support!

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

The product system requirements for Trading Toolbox says that this product is only available for Windows. From the error it's trying to use the Microsoft® COM framework to create the IB Trader Workstation connection, and as the name (Microsoft COM) implies that's only available on Windows.

Answer 2

[Yair Altman]

As Steve noted, Trading Toolbox support for Interactive Brokers is limited to Windows only. This is clearly mentioned in the documented system requirements. On Mac & Linux you will see the error that you mentioned because these OSes don't support COM, on which the Trading Toolbox connector to IB is based.

If you need a Matlab-IB connector on Mac or Linux, then try using my IB-Matlab toolbox instead: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/ib-matlab. IB-Matlab is based on IB's Java (not COM) API, so it runs well on all platforms that support Matlab: Windows, Mac and Linux.

Yair Altman

http://UndocumentedMatlab.com