2017

Tutorial: install IBridgePy and run an examples

Tutorial: install IBridgePy and run an example There is a risk of loss when trading stocks, futures, forex, options and other financial instruments. Please trade with capital you can afford to lose. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Nothing in this computer program/code is intended to be a recommendation, explicitly or implicitly, […]

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IBridgePy starts to support order_percent in Quantopian now

Dear IBridgePy users, IBridgePy starts to support order_percent(security, amount, style=OrderType) now for version 1.20170920 For details, please check out https://ibridgepy.com//ibridgepy-documentation/ Other updates: The bug related to schedule_function is fixed. Thanks to jakemoilanen for reporting the bug The bug related to handle_calendar is fixed. Thanks to harshnisar for reporting the bug. Regards IBridgePy team  

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Free debug serivce

Dear IBridgePy users, Due to increased number of users who are willing to migrating from Quantopian to IBridgePy, we are glad to offer FREE debug services to make the migration process easier. The scope of this free debug services are the examples with minor changes provided by IBridgePy. Please check out this webpage for more

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Release note and version number

Dear IBridgePy users, We really appreciate thomas2004ch for his/her comments on missing release notes and version number. To address this issue, we have built a dedicated webpage to announce release notes about IBridgePy. https://ibridgepy.com//release-notes/ . The related release notes will not be published in blog any more unless the availability of critical new features. Also, we have

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A sample code to show how to get historical data for VIX

The following sample code is to get historical data for VIX from Interactive Brokers if the user has the subscription to VIX at IB. The function of superSymbol ( ) is to define the security. data.history ( ) has the same signature as the same function at Quantopian. def initialize(context): context.sec=superSymbol(secType=’IND’,symbol=’VIX’,currency=’USD’, exchange=’SMART’, primaryExchange=’CBOE’) def handle_data(context, data):

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what will happen when broker had issues with their data source?

Question: On 8/16/2017 9:30 EST when market opens, due to some reasons the VIX data paused updating for 10 minutes. As a result all brokers’ VIX value is missing for that time period. I am wondering what the api request data .current(‘VIX’,…) will return then? how could the algorithm detect this issue and pause the

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Spring 2017 Academic Thesis in Business School using IBridgPy!

I recently found a Bachelor’s thesis written by Victor A Barca when I was looking for the algorithmic trading technology and strategy research on the website. To my biggest surprise and excitement, the author performed his full research using IBridgePy! It is a great example that demonstrates how quickly someone can grasp IBridgePy and start

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