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We are very pleased to announce that IBridgePy Backtester is released from V 5.0.1. The main feature of IBridgePy Backtester is to backtest strategies using historical data that are retrieved from Interactive Brokers or other data providers. The backtester supports most of IBridgePy functions and Quantopian functions. In this blog, we are going to introduce […]

This is a sample code to demonstrate how IBridgePy for Multi Account implement different trading strategies on multiple accounts. The sample code assumes that two IB accounts (accountCode1 and accountCode2) are linked to one login credential. For the accountCode1, the strategy is to maintain a long position of 100 shares of Forex: CASH,EUR,USD when the

A new feature is recently released for IBridgePy Community version. This feature will enable users who have multiple linked Interactive Brokers (IB) trading accounts to manage any one of these accounts using this community version. This feature is developed responding to high customer demands. Before this release, users receives an error message when IBridgePy receives information from multiple IB

Many users want to set up a dedicated server for algorithm trading and it is definitely highly recommended because any other services at the same server that runs IBridgePy may adversely affect implementing your pre-defined trading strategies. For example, excessive internet traffic during streaming a Netflix movie will take the resources of communication between IBridgePy

Many traders like to manage the risks to their positions by attaching a stop loss order (S/L order) and a take profit order (T/P order) to the main order. If the security rises to the take-profit point, the T/P order is executed and the position is closed for a gain. If the security falls to

A trailing stop limit order is designed to allow an investor to specify a limit on the maximum possible loss, without setting a limit on the maximum possible gain. For more details about trailing stop limit order, please refer to the introduction of this type of order at https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=606 IBridgePy from version 2.20180324 starts to support placing trailing

Moving average crossover strategy is one of the popular strategies that lots of traders have paid attention to. The details of the strategy is described at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average_crossover In a short summary of moving average crossover strategy, the trend of the security is going up when the fast moving average line cross over the slow

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,

Dear IBridgePy users: IBridgePy has a new release 2.20171104 I would like to introduce some changes that a lot of users are interested in. show_real_time_price will not show any negative number anymore. Some users reported strange behaviors of order ( ) and order_target ( ) and they might be related to the default price of

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