How to get all securities in an asset class from IBPy (Interactive Brokers python API)

External question — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: lostlostlostlostlost Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/27624 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Would like to know how to request all securities in an asset class using IBpy, the python wrapper for the Interactive Brokers API. For example getting all currency pairs in the class forex ('CASH'), or all stocks in the class equity ('STK'). Current efforts: Searched QF stack, stackoverflow and IBPy's google discussion groups. Ongoing efforts: Trawling through IBPy's "ibConection" class. Thanks!

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: pyCthon Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/27640 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. You can't via the API. If you need to search use the contract lookup database https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Fgeneral%2Fcontact%2FtipsContractsDatabaseSearch.php%3Fib_entity%3Dllc