IB-Examples

Collection of working scripts using the Interactive Brokers TWS API through IB-Ruby

New: Correlation Example Use Polar DataFrames to calculate the correlation between two assets or different timeframes of a single asset.

Setup

Its super easy to setup IB-Ruby in a Lxc-Container.

• Require an Demo Account
• Clone IB-Container and install one container on your hardware.
• Enter the container (use lxc open _container-name_)
• ib-examples is included

enjoy.

Alternatively

• clone this repository
• run the install-script in /setup

Console and Gateway

For interactive experiments, console and gateway scripts are included in the bin-directory

Examples

There are three categories

• Contract
  Scripts that deal with IB::Contracts.
  Fetch Contract-Details, associated Options, Option-Chains, Market Price, Scanner and historical Data

• Order
  Scripts that demonstrate different trading methods.
  Limit-Order, Bracket-, Combo-, and Butterfly-Orders
  Preview (what if), modify and cancel orders

• Account
  Gather Information about the account itself
  List Balances and portfolio-positions

• Experimental Jupyter Notebooks are included