How to get positions of your portfolio from Interactive Brokers with python IBPy?

External question — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Escachator Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/17371 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I am using IBPy to get the positions of my portfolio. I understand that I can do: from ib.opt import ibConnection tws = ibConnection( host = 'localhost',port= 7496, clientId = 123) tws.reqAccountUpdates(True,'accountnumber') and then I am supposed to use updatePortfolio() in some way, but I don't know how.

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: Castedo Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/17379 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 IB API calls your code asynchronously when there are account updates after you have called reqAccountUpdates. But you have to provide a callback function (handler) for the IB API to call. Looks like from the [ibPy documentation example] ( https://code.google.com/p/ibpy/wiki/IbPyOptional ) and how the Java IB API is defined, you want to call tws.register(your_update_portfolio_handler,message.updatePortfolio) where your_update_handler is a function you define to handle account updates. You probably need to look through the ibPy code to confirm 'updatePortfolio' is indeed what should be passed to tws.register.

External answer — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: hui Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/31588 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Interactive Brokers posted a recorded webinar at youtube on Dec 13 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hogXB07OJ_I The topic is to use IBridgePy, a flexiable and easy-to-use python tool to trade at IB. You can easily get the positions in IBridgePy.