Can someone share experience about what is prefered when editing an existing order? Should I "cancel it and create a new one" or should I only "edit it" (for example the quantity or price)? What is ea

Hi, I have searched but couldn't find on the mailing list and not sure where I read it but there is a shortcut (maybe hotkey) one can use to show the number of rows subscribed to watchlist or market d

Does anyone know why I'm getting an error unable to fetch fundamental data. This is the contract ID for google stock. def getnasdaqOPThistdata(): for index, row in DFcontractdata.iterrows(): contract

All, I can't seem to get my script to pull down the price of an option contract. I have this overload in my class: ''' def tickOptionComputation(self, orderId, tickType, tickAttrib: int, impliedVol: f

My sens is that the current nature of IB is to provide two tools which either can be run. One is a headful client cumbersmoe and poor UI called TWI and the other is a thinner client. But that NEITHER

Hi all. We are a group of developers working on an TWS API client in Typescript for node.js (if you do node.js Apps, might be worth having a look https://github.com/stoqey/ib ;)). Currently we look fo

The other night, when all server farms were connected (I checked status in TWS and reset data connections multiple times), I have noticed that my LMT order was not executing while market price was mat

If fetching live market depth level 2 tick by tick data for a stock, does setting SMART for the exchange provide THE cheapest rate available in the market or should one consider querying all the excha

Hi, Had this problem before but it seems to never go away. I'm getting order rejects due to incorrect limit price precision, even though I'm following the rules as I understand them. Example: Contract

How do I pull all strikes for a given expiration? I found this API: https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/options.html Which gives me all combinations of expirations and strikes, but the docume

I am trying to collect a list of exchanges that trade options or future options priced in cents/pence instead of dollars/pounds. I have found issues when placing orders for options and future options

For those of you using "DelayedLast" tick for Excel RTD API because of missing market data subscription this might be useful... I have recently found that "PlPrice" tick provides the live last price e

May I ask which functions I should refer so I can learn how to 1. get the last position opening time and 2. the last buy/sell action recorded?

Hello, I have been trying to get ISIN and CUSIP from ActiveX API and failed everytime. I am using reqContractDetails and trying to read secIdList. I have successfully received the required info while

This is hard to find out by experiment unless I wait for crazy times... :) Does TWS API still send real-time bars when trading is halted? Whether the whole market due to circuit breakers or an individ

Hello, Is it possible to request the complete list of Exchanges permitted by IB using the API? Also, are the contents of the Exchange Listings all there is available for trading inside TWS? I apprecia

I’ve only encountered this particular error with a single stock contract (AAL@NASDAQ) out of several hundred so far, when trying to do EClient.reqHeadTimestamp() to get the earliest available historic

If I have an open position with an attached trailing stop order, can I somehow retrieve the price where the stop is sitting at the moment?

I have multiple strategies running on the same account/sub-account. I want to distinguish which orders were placed by who. Is there a field in the Order class that I can assign a custom value, and tha

What is the magic combination of settings that lets you place orders through the API both before and after market hours? I can use outsideRth(true) on an order and place it after market hours, but not