hi i'm testing the api connection with this dumb buy order with def main(): conn = Connection.create(port=7496, clientId=100) conn.connect() oid = 1 cont = make_contract('GE','STK','SMART','SMART','US

Please forgive me if this is an obvious question.... I'm trying to retrieve the contract details (e.g., strike price, expiration) for all legs of an existing combination order. FWIW, I want to compare

I am somewhat frustrated that AccountSummaryEnd is only invoked on the first request of AccountSummary and same for positions, PositionEnd is only invoked the first time Position updates are requested

reqHistoricalTicks()? How to pull the fulls days data from 9am to 16:00 pm? HELP

I ran my own program try to connect to TWS. This program was wrote by myself more than 10 years ago, it worked fine. But this time it gave me an error: "Can't connect to the server." and the TWS gave

Hello! I have a question concerning TWS-APIs and a possible solution for my personal situation: For my entries (long) I am using stop-mkt buy orders with attached trail sell orders, and these "sell tr

Hi, I am trying to speed up SmartRouting for orders I send using the Python API. Does anyone have advice on whether the three IB settings below will help fill my orders faster? 1. "Exclude exchanges w

It seems that IBKR have decided to start encrypting the log files produced by TWS and the Gateway (at least for live and paper accounts, though seemingly not for demo accounts). (Thanks to Charlie Coo

I am trying to figure out what could cause an Error Code: 399 I have come across 2: Error Code 399: Warning: Your order was repriced so as not to cross a related resting order Error Code 399: Warning:

It's clear that TWS supports IEX's discretionary peg order type ( https://ibkr.info/article/2844 ) but I cannot figure out how to submit it via python API. Based on the web page it seems like there ou

Hi all, I'm receiving 5sec bars of S&P500 futures(e-mini). when i looks ,for example , at the open value of bar at xx:30:00 i see that sometimes it's not suitable to the open value i see on investing.

Hello, As per request point in time I need to get access to the last bid/offer/last fields of fx and stocks during market hours and also outside of active market hours. Is there a way to achieve such

Hello, I have not used any historical requests with the IB Api so far, but am experimenting right now and came across a weird anomaly. Perhaps someone could kindly shed some light into this? I request

reqMktData(100, contract, genericTickList,snapshot, regulatorySnapshot, mktDataOptions) sleep(1) reqMktData(200, contract, genericTickList,snapshot, regulatorySnapshot, mktDataOptions) sleep(1) reqMkt

Greetings, The latest IB API Beta Release notes state: "Generic filters (which are not fields in the ScannerSubscription class) are now available to use with the API scanner. The new filters can be fo

real account or paper account can get it. but today the market is closed, so i use edemo demouser to login tws. when i open option chain. ES futures show no volume and openInterest. how to get the ope

Hi, I wonder if it is possible to get the "dividends" paid by each stock using the IB API. Actually I am able to get daily prices from my demo account. I arrived at https://interactivebrokers.github.i

Summary of isue: We are pushing through and parent LMT order with two bracket (profit and loss) orders via the gateway and our issue is that our parent order does not get sent through to the exchange

Hi All, I've refrained from responding until I had concrete proof on exactly what happens with Outside RTH orders. Thanks to Nick and Josh for their input. Josh - you were correct . A STP order will n

Hi, I would like to cancel all open orders and close all positions. Does anyone has an example code? (JAVA API) Thanks.