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Newbie Corner 292

In this thread you can post anything newbie related such as install issues or questions etc.

By Ewald de Wit ·

Introduce yourself here 42

Feel free to give an introduction of yourself. Who you are, what your interests are. What you are using IB_Insync for, etc. Just reply to this post and enter what ever you feel like. (more or less ;-)

Feel free to give an introduction of yourself. Who you are, what your interests are. What you are using IB_Insync for, etc. Just reply to this post and enter what ever you feel like. (more or less ;-) )

By Ray Johnson ·

reqHistoricalData(combo,...)

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know if you can request historical prices for a spread/combo for US equity option values? I'm doing the following in a jupyter notebook: 1) code works fine if I use just th

By hobmij@... ·

Struggling with reqTickByTickData - can someone give me a clue about how to get at the data after I've subscribed ? (Callbacks I think, but I can't find any examples...)

I'm connecting and subscribing fine, but I'm not sure what to fo next! This call succeeds:- foo=ib.reqTickByTickData(contract, "BidAsk", 0, True) And afterwards, so does this:- ib.cancelTickByTickData

By Chris ·

Recent concurrent.futures._base.TimeoutError Error 3

Evening everyone, I recently started to get this error even when running simply: ib = IB() ib.connect(host="127.0.0.1", port=7497, clientId=1) I have updated ib_insync, my gateway is the latest versio

By Elliot Parker ·

How can I retrieve the last trade realized pnl?

Hello every one, its my first time here, My name is greg, Im 36 yo french man. I would like to save last trade realized pnl like the one we see in the tws trades windows. How can I do this? I tried to

By wickersheim gregory ·

Filling Equity Orders Outside of normal trading hours

Hi, I'm submitting an order after the market close but it doesn't fill unless I manually go into TWS and click on TIF and select "Fill outside RTH." I do not see a parameter when creating an order tha

By msankari@... ·

RFQ Support 2

Hi Ewald, Is there a plan to support RFQs? import datetime import math import ib_insync as ibi def on_pending_tickers(tickers): for t in tickers: print(f'{datetime.datetime.now()} {t.contract.conId} p

By Sal ·

FlexReport examples 7

Hello, I am struggling a bit with the FlexReport, so can someone please share some examples... I am trying to do 2 things: get the account balance and total value and the quantity of open position wit

By LJ ·

bracketOrder with MarketOrder 2

It seems I need to reimplement ib_insync's bracketOrder method to place MarketOrder. As I understand, in common case I don't know the current price of symbol and I know the last one but it could be al

By Ruslan Popov ·

Conditional order shows an error. It says the order is cancelled but it actually is not cancelled and is active in tws 2

contract = Stock('AMD', 'SMART', 'USD') ib.qualifyContracts(contract) order = LimitOrder(action='BUY', totalQuantity=100,lmtPrice=112,conditions=[PriceCondition(conjunction="a", conId=contract.conId,

By alexnospam123@... ·

error when using condition 2

contract = Stock('AMD', 'SMART', 'USD') ib.qualifyContracts(contract) order = LimitOrder('BUY', 100,112, conditions=[PriceCondition(0, contract.conId, exch="SMART", isMore=True, price=112.0)]) Error 3

By alexnospam123@... ·

limit if touched order

I can't seem to find the class for limit if touched orders.

By alexnospam123@... ·

why doesn't the callback execute? is the event system blocking? 2

import datetime import unittest from ib_insync import IB, Stock, MarketOrder from ibapi.manual import TestApp from ibapi.contract import * from ibapi.order_condition import * from threading import Thr

By alexnospam123@... ·

Newbie - looking for a bootstrap 7

Hi- I trade Options on the IB platform. I've created a trading journal in Filemaker Pro. Its a hassle updating the values manually so I'm looking to automate the feeds from TWS. In my first project I

By bryan@... ·

back-testing lib for IB 6

Hello, I would like to know if anyone has any recommendation for a back-testing lib that is using IB data? Is there any open source back-testing lib that is using IB-insync? Thanks, Corentin

By Corentin Valleroy ·

Watchdog, reqHistoricalData

Hi. I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to get bar data whilst using watchdog and IBC. My test code is as follows from ib_insync import * from ib_insync import ibcont

By glenn@... ·

Fetching historical data basics 2

I was really thankful to find many others had developed IB tooling for python. I tried to fetch historical, delayed, frozen data by adding code in my script, "ib.reqMarketDataType(4)", but continued t

By westonplatter@... ·

How to submit and track multiple orders at once? 4

Hi All, I am looking to make my order submission process more efficient. And I hope you can help me with it as I am do not know how to do it yet. Basically my existing process is in Python: Loop thoug

By Dimer42 ·

time and sales

Beginner here :-) I would like to receive time and sales from IB. What's wrong with this code ? from ib_insync import * ib = IB() ib.connect('127.0.0.1', 7777, clientId=11) contract = Stock(AAPL, 'SMA

By python_newbie ·