Interactive Brokers automated trading
interactive-brokers, python
Solution
The "DDE for Excel" API is by far the easiest of the API's to get up and running, and IB provides a sample program with instructions as to how to get it working. https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/excel_apis.html
And many options are now available to work with TWS API
Problem
I've tried to setup Interactive Broker's C++ API in Visual Studio 2008, but I know very limited C++ and I keep getiing errors. :< 1) Is there any way to use some kind of light scripting language to connect to Interactive Brokers and make trade. F.E. ``` login.('username','password') >>>'Connected' makeTrade('GOOG','550') >>>'Trade Completed' ``` Something light like Python would be just fine, and yes I have looked into IBPY, but I do not understand how the java2python system works. 2) How did you setup your automated system, or how would you set up your automated trading system with Interactive Brokers?