Interactive Brokers TWS API message code
Interactive Brokers TWS API message code: 144 (size not share allocation)
The error, as text you can copy
144- Kind
- TWS API message code
- Where you meet it
- In the TWS API, not in the Web API and not in an HTTP status
What does 144 (size not share allocation) mean on the Interactive Brokers API?
Interactive Brokers lists TWS API message code 144 with a text that begins "Order size does not match total share allocation." (the vendor's wording) and goes on to say how to adjust the share allocation from the order in TWS. The vendor's page adds no notes for this code.
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No fix in the source
The vendor's page gives no remedy.
That is all the source says, so this page does not invent a fix. General guidance: the other tWS API message codes recorded for Interactive Brokers, and the error lookup for the exact text of the reply you received.