VB Trading Platform Tutorial 1

This will be a series of video tutorials called Visual Basic trading platform.  The tutorial that will show you how to create parts of a trading platform.
The program will be coded in Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2012
The program will connect to Trader Workstation from Interactive Brokers.
You need to download and install the trading platform and the API from Interactive Brokers and install it.
Download and install Visual Studio 2010, 2012, or 2013

I am using an earlier version of the API_Version=9.70. I think if you use this version you will have to force it to install the 32 bit version.

Software you will need to download and install before we can start coding in Visual Basic
I am using Windows 8.1 also will work with Windows 7

Download and install Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation
Must be installed on the main drive
Here is the link:
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=14099&ns=T#tws-software









































Download and install Interactive Brokers API version 9.70
here is the link:
http://interactivebrokers.github.io/#
Agree to the terms.
IB API previous for Windows Version API 9.70

























Make sure yours looks the same as below
File > Global configuration > API > Settings (Mosaic)
or
Edit > Global configuration > API  > Settings (Classic)

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