Summary
Using the Interactive Brokers (IB) plugin with AmiBroker requires a delicate touch. It's not that it doesn't work, it's that the current instructions are old and miss highly important points to achieve full automation of downloading multiple symbols.
Objective
This document will identify the method to automate AmiBroker 5.30 on Windows XP(*) to fill ~180+ days of historical 1-minute data for up to 100 symbols using the AmiBroker IB plugin to connect to the Interactive Brokers, Trader Workstation's API.