Level: Beginner
IBKR Web API
Interactive Brokers offers the ability to trade, monitor and manage your IBKR account using a single RESTful API.
Traders’ Academy offers several courses centered on using the Trader Workstation (TWS) Application Programming Interface (API), including its use with the computer programming languages Python and R, as well as more basic functions such as using the Microsoft Excel application with TWS to manage an IBKR trading account, and automate trading. Also, learn how Interactive Brokers enables trading, monitoring, and managing IBKR accounts by using a single RESTful API. Lessons in this Web API course include how to code an IB algo order in the Web API, how to code a bracket order in the Web API, and how to code a fractional shares order in the Web API, and much more.
Level: Beginner
Excel and the TWS API
This course covers the API basics and how you can use Excel together with TWS to manage your account and automate your trading. You can follow along with our samples and test it out for yourself using your paper trading account.
Level: Beginner
Trading Using R
R has an array of R-packages for automated trading and performance analytics for back testing and analyzing trading strategies. The IBrokers package has been created by Jeffrey Ryan and is currently maintained by Joshua Ulrich.
Level: Beginner
Python TWS API
This is a course in programming with the Trader Workstation Application Programming Interface (TWS API) for Python developers. In this course, we describe how to get started in developing Python applications that use the API.
- What is the TWS API?
- Installing & Configuring TWS for the API
- Accessing the TWS Python API Source Code
- Essential components of TWS API programs
- Requesting Market Data – Code Walkthrough
- Placing Orders using TWS Python API
- TWS Python API Placing Complex Orders
- Accessing Portfolio Data and Account Information
- TWS Python API Market Parameters and Scanners
- TWS Python API Concurrency Example
