Interactive Broker ticker symbol for cryptocurrency

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I'm trying out Interactive Broker Trader Workstation data feed for intraday quotes.

Does anyone know the proper ticker/symbol in Amobker for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

I checked AmiBroker - IB real time feed and didn't find an example for cryptocurrency.

Please note, that exchange should be "PAXOS" for all Cryptocurrency contracts.
Contract contract = new Contract();
contract.Symbol = "ETH";
contract.SecType = "CRYPTO";
contract.Exchange = "PAXOS";
contract.Currency = "USD";
Note: Contract exchange can be either PAXOS or ZEROHASH

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Hi Tomasz,

This ticker seems to get me a valid error:
BTC.USD-ZEROHASH-CRYPTO

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My IBKR TWS version is

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Is this an error that api library in Amibroker is not up-to-date?

Some site seems to report that this may be a known error.
https://groups.io/g/twsapi/topic/api_error_your_api_version/95782811.

If this an error that cannot be fixed, I'll just use IBIT which is iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. But the advantage of using BTC.USD-ZEROHASH-CRYPTO is that Bitcoin trades 24/7 and should have streaming quotes 24/7.

BTW, Interactive Broker provides this ticker list for crytocurrency

IBKR-SYMBOL CURRENCY PRODUCT REGION EXCHANGE
BCH.USD null CRYPTO null PAXOS
BCH.USD null CRYPTO null ZEROHASH
BTC.USD null CRYPTO null PAXOS
BTC.USD null CRYPTO null OSL
BTC.USD null CRYPTO null ZEROHASH
ETH.USD null CRYPTO null PAXOS
ETH.USD null CRYPTO null OSL
ETH.USD null CRYPTO null ZEROHASH
LTC.USD null CRYPTO null PAXOS
LTC.USD null CRYPTO null ZEROHASH

Thanks

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This is notice, not an error. Codes above 10000 in TWS API are notices. It doesn't matter at all since data plugin does not place orders therefore message is irrelevant and simply wrong as TWS API doesn't understand that requesting price does not involve trade size.

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