Tutorials

YouTube Video Tutorials

Our YouTube channel hosts dozens of Python trading tutorials covering installation, broker configuration, strategy development, and debugging.

Getting Started

• Overview of IBridgePy: backtest and live trading
• Install and run IBridgePy on Mac
• Install and run IBridgePy on Windows
• Run multiple strategies on IBridgePy
• Run IBridgePy in Jupyter Notebook for Windows users
• Config Trader Workstation (TWS) & Gateway for IBridgePy
• Introduction to IBridgePy configuration system

Historical Data

• Request historical data
• Save historical data to local files while gracefully handling errors
• Request historical data of other than U.S. equities
• Handle errors related to request_historical_data

Orders & Trading

• Introduction to place orders and modify orders
• Introduction to canceling orders
• Introduction to show real time prices
• Introduction to Security object and place orders
• Introduction to security_info.csv
• Introduction to schedule_function

TD Ameritrade

• Introduction to algo trading with TD Ameritrade
• Trading with TD Ameritrade on Windows: Get a refresh token
• Trading with TD Ameritrade: Get a refresh token without any coding
• Trading with TD Ameritrade using Python: Create an API key

Debugging & Troubleshooting

• Introduction to Free Debug Service
• Debug for “EXIT, initialize does not in RUN_ME.py”
• Debug for “Unable connect as the client id is already in use”
• Debug for “UnicodeDecodeError: utf-8 codec can't decode”
• Debug for “Please download the latest version of IBridgePy”