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I've had experience with IB in a quant fund setting. I was impressed with it. Significantly further ahead of the curve in regards to their API offering compared
by shogunmike 13y ago
I've had experience with IB in a quant fund setting. I was impressed with it. Significantly further ahead of the curve in regards to their API offering compared to other brokerages.
At my last check it was mostly geared towards C++/Java with less than ideal documentation. However there are some good open source wrappers available (Python):
https://github.com/blampe/IbPy https://github.com/blampe/IbPy
As stated in the parent comment, the minimum account balance is $10k.
- noname123 13y agoNot to mention PDT requirement is $25K and more like $30K if you want to get a good buffer zone. You can also trade it via FIX. They open sourced their API here: https://github.com/InteractiveBrokers/tws-api https://github.com/InteractiveBrokers/tws-api
- shogunmike 13y agoThanks for the Github link. I hadn't realised they had become open source! Although (I had a 404), I think it's actually: https://github.com/InteractiveBrokers/tws-api-public https://github.com/InteractiveBrokers/tws-api-public Indeed the PDT requirement is a pain...
- sseveran 13y agoPattern Day Trader is a Finra/NASD rule.
- kevrone 13y agoThere's a ruby client for IB, believe it or not. It's not bad, either. https://github.com/ib-ruby/ib-ruby https://github.com/ib-ruby/ib-ruby