3rd party API like IBPy for Interactive Brokers python API?

External question — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Kevvy Kim Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/38389 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I've read some tutorial of the Interactive Brokers API's TWS and it seems very low level and requires so much work just to place a simple market order. I've come across IBPy and just wondering how reliable is it? It's very simple to use, but should anything go wrong, is it quite easy to debug? I've also heard that IBPy is no longer being developed, so it won't support Python 3.0 and up. In that case, is there something similar to IBPy that's just as easy to use and is updated quite frequently?

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Brian from QuantRocket Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/38392 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. The problem with using IbPy is not only that it does not support Python 3 but even more importantly it's anchored to an older version of IB's API so it's missing a lot of features IB has added in recent years. If you like the feel of IbPy, ibpythonic is near drop-in replacement for IbPy that works with Python 3 and the newer versions of IB's API. It's maintained by (and used by) QuantRocket . (Disclaimer: I am affiliated with QuantRocket.) Another option to look at is ib_insync . It replaces IB's asynchronous programming model with a more synchronous programming model and has an active user group .