Dear IBridgePy users, We know that migrating from Quantopian to IBridgePy is not an easy task so that we work very hard to support as many Quantopian functions as possible. From IBridgePy version 2.20171012, order_value ( ), order_target_percent ( ), order_target_value ( ) and record ( ) are supported by IBridgePy and you can use […]
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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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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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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 The related release notes will not be published in blog any more unless the availability of critical new features.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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Migrating from Quantopian to IBridgePy can be very easy in some cases even without making any code changes. In this thread, I am going to talk about how to make the migration as smooth as possible. In the following, I will explain the detailed steps assuming you are using a Microsoft Windows system. As a
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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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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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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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Dear IBridgePy users, Thank you very much for your patience. Finally, IBridgePy on Mac and IBridgePy on Ubuntu are available. Both of them are based on native python 2.7 64-bit, not anaconda python. Please download them at https://ibridgepy.com//download/ Let us know if you have any issues with them. Best, IBridgePy team
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The IBridgePy has been updated on 7/27/2017. The major updates include: Added an input parameter of orderRef into the function of order and order_target. orderRef can be used to label and track the orders that are placed by different strategies if user want to implement multiple strategies at the same time. An example will be
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