June 2017

Apparently, you cannot do it using Quantopian or zipline. But you can get historical data from Interactive Brokers and save them to csv files using IBridgePy easily.  Also, you can specify a datetime in past as the ending time of the historical data request. In the following example, historical data of “SPY” ending by Jun 6th […]

It is possible ignore or black error messages in IBridgePy but it is NOT recommended to do so because you may miss some of the most important information from IB. Also, you may need to see the error messages to debug your codes. Anyway, if you really really want to do so, you can do

As an example, the following code can be used to know the available futures of E-mini S&P 500. “xx” in the code represents the expiry of the futures. def initialize(context): request_data(contractDetails=[symbol(‘FUT,ES,USD,xx’)]) def handle_data(context, data): print data.data[symbol(‘FUT,ES,USD,xx’)].contractDetails exit() Another example is provided to get the option chains of E-mini S&P 500 futures. “xx,xx,xx,xx” in the code represents expiry,

Dear IBridgePy users, Thank you very much for your interest in IBridgePy. We are working very hard to make IBridgePy the easiest Python tool to trade with Interactive Brokers. As promised, we are delighted to announce that IBridgePy on Python 3 is available ! You can download it at www.IBridgePy.com/download and choose IBridgePy_python3_64bit Please contact with