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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

The latest update of IBridgePy was on 5/17/2017 The added new features are as follows: Add tif=’DAY’ in MarketOrder, LimitOrder, StopOrder Time in force (TIF) is a special instruction used when placing a trade to indicate how long an order will remain active before it is executed or expires. Time-in-force options allow traders to be more

No. The main products that quantopian trades are US equities and they have clear market open and close time. Therefore, quantopian provides schedule_function either before market opens or after market closes. In IBridgePy, you can trade any securities or commodities that IB supports and they may have totally different trading hours. The solution is to

Special thanks to user of geeeeeeek ! The original question was raised by geeeeeeek and it was answered by her/him later. The original question was “Instead of localhost connection, can we connect IB gateway remotely?” The answer is YES. In RUN_ME.py, add remoteHostIP=’xx.xx.xx.xx’  (xx is your real remote host IP). Also, you need to disable “localhost

request_data request_data(historyData= None, realTimePrice = None, contractDetails= None, marketSnapShot=None, waitForFeedbackinSeconds=30,repeat=3) historyData: a list of requests of historical data. Each request is defined by a tuple with three elements, security, timeframe, goBack. IB supports the following timeframes: 1 sec, 5 secs, 15 secs, 30 secs, 1 min, 2 mins, 3 mins, 5 mins, 15 mins, 30

You can use create_order ( ) and place_combination_orders ( ) to place a bracket order with One Cancel All (OCA) features. Create_Order User create_order to clear define all kinds orders that IB supports using critical parameters. action: “BUY” or “SELL” amount: number of shares security: a security object that is created by symbol ( )

A: Yes. The historical data received in IBridgePy from the IB server are saved in data[symbol(‘xxx’)].hist that is a pandas dataframe. Therefore, you can save it to a csv file by pd.dataframe.to_csv(“Path_to_your_local_folder”) and use it later in anyway. Example: Request historical data of AAPL and SPY and save them to local folder. def initialize(context): pass