I've tried to setup Interactive Broker's C++ API in Visual Studio 2008, but I know very limited C++ and I keep getiing errors. :< 1) Is there any way to use some kind of light scripting languag...

First, to begin with, I was successfully able to place an order using TWS API. However, for that, as I understood, I need to run the TWS desktop version in the background. But I need to run this on...

Using the Java API (and I guess this goes for any other TWS Interactive Brokers client API) I get an error "No security definition has been found for the request" The FAQ and other resour...

Hi I am trying to install ibapi in python however the package seems to be unavailable because there is an error every time I try to install it is there another way I can install this package . Your...

EDITED: I found a solution regarding the error messages - it was a bug on IB's API. The code I show as an answer below should be useful for those looking for a clean solution to read positions, and...

Interactive Brokers just released a python version of their API. I am trying to get data. I am using the 'examples' in 'Program.py', and just trying to get account values. I just want to know wha...

I guess everything is in the title. They do have an installation shell script but nothing else. I was looking for any other scripts or, maybe, some CLI flags to make it perform an uninstall but co...

I try use Interactive Brokers Client Portal Web API: I succesfully start gateway and login. I succesfully make GET requests to various end-points. When I make POST request to any end-points, I rec...

Following the Interactive Brokers documentation I am trying to obtain the contract details using the below code: from ibapi.client import EClient from ibapi.wrapper import EWrapper class MyWrapp...

I am trying to use the new IBKR Client Portal API. I have written a simple console program to access the API but it results in Error 403 - Access denied. If I try the same request from Postman it s...

I have an application running on my host which has the following features: it listens to port 4001 (configurable) and only accepts connections from a whitelist of trusted IP addresses (127.0.0.1 on...

I want to use IBAPI to get historical stock data. My code does not work and returns nothings. Can anybody help me edit the code? Thanks from ibapi import client from ibapi import wrapper import da...

I am trying to simply connect to the ibapi (Interactive Brokers API), but I am having some technical troubles with Spyder. What I did so far: I installed the latest version for Windows from here...

Sorry I may ask a stupid question but I am just a beginner in python and algotrading. I am now using Python 3.7 and ibapi with ib_insync to try connect TWS. However, as Python 3.7 use async as a ke...

I am trying to get historical data from IBPY. I get it, but the volume is extremely low to the point it's useless. I would like to know how to get the correct historical volume estimation. I'm e...

I have started using IB in combination with IBridgePy and I was wondering whether it is possible to somehow perform any backtests, does anyone how to do this?

I am looking to connect Python to the Interactive Brokers API. A google search reveals the availability of ibPy (see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ib) however it appears this library is not maintain...

Basically, I want to use python to query my IB order history and do some analyze afterwards. But I could not find any existing API for me to query these data, does anyone have experience to do this...

I have a question regarding the Python API of Interactive Brokers. Can multiple asset and stock contracts be passed into reqMktData() function and obtain the last prices? (I can set the snapshots ...

Here is a script I am using to request market data. I am not subscribed to the data-feed yet, so I though it would automatically return delayed market data, but apparently I have to enable it, but...

I want to connect to IB with python, here is my code: from ib.ext.Contract import Contract from ib.ext.Order import Order from ib.opt import Connection, message def error_handler(msg): print "...

When receiving financial tick data through Interactive Brokers' API methods tickPrice or tickSize the data will have the following parameters tickerId (symbol) field (1=bid, 2=ask, 4=last, 6=high...

Will it be possible for someone to provide me a working example of reqExecutions? I am having a hard time with the ewrapper and callback mechanism. After searching google for working examples, I co...

There are a lot of examples showing how to get particular asset's price from Interactive Brokers. However, when I want to get the whole chain of options for one asset, I don't know which particular...

In https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041&ns=T it is written that in order to use the IB api you have to connect to it through the TWS or IB Gateway. Our API requires connect...