Installation

Be sure to have the following dependencies installed:

• Python 2.5 - IbPy requires Python 2.5 or newer.
• Interactive Brokers TWS - IbPy works with both browser-based and stand-alone versions of TWS.

Then download, unpack, and install the IbPy release.

• Download the latest release from http://code.google.com/p/ibpy/downloads/list
• Unpack the release using tar on Linux, BSD, or MacOS. Unpack the zip file on Windows.
• Run python setup.py install in the release directory extracted from the archive.

Digest instructions:

  $ wget http://ibpy.googlecode.com/files/IbPy-0.7.0-9.00.tar.gz
  $ tar xfz IbPy-0.7.0-9.00.tar.gz
  $ cd IbPy-0.7.0-9.00
  $ python setup.py install

Running the Demos

There are several example scripts in the demo directory of the release. These are:

• reference_python - prints TWS messages to the console using the generated code within IbPy
• reference_jython - prints TWS messages, using the Java and Jython (not IbPy).
• example_opt - prints TWS messages and uses the optional IbPy interface
• api_coverage - executes all of the TWS API methods and displays coverage statistics

To run these scripts, first install IbPy, then start TWS and login. Next navigate to the demo directory created when the release was unpacked, then run the scripts like so:

  $ ./reference_python

Or even:

  $ python example_opt

Good luck, and happy trading.