Hey guys I want to write my own stock screener + data storage & analysis + alarm in python and run it on a server and want it to notify when alarms are triggered either by text message or E-mail
I have one concern right now:
So far I found two solutions for python that make the connection to IB API easy, IBridgePy (ibridgepy.com
Now my suspiciousness kicks in. Why are they offering their software for free? There is no ad, no monthly cost, no nothing
Is there any way they might have built in a backdoor that sends them information from all the scripts made and then they use the sucessful ones for themselves or even selling them and eventually rendering them useless?
Is there any way to find out? (Wireshark?)
IB API for stock screener
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anyone used/using IBridgePy personally?
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Because it's just a wrapper over a C++ library. You can check out more here; ibridgepy.com
Plus I'm assuming they make money from their "rent a coder" section of the page where they offer their services for algo trading.
The actual python wrapper they built isn't all that crazy imho.
There's even an official version: code.google.com
yeah I read that but somehow I need 100% trust, know any good program that would monitor the software for a period of time and report any suspicious connections?
ibpy =/= IBridgePy
also if you download the zip folder there's a .py file called "quantopian". any idea if they have anything to do with quantopian? Because Quantopian, for example, is openly using and cashin on people's algos
also IBridgePy claims it's completely open source but the wrapper is a .pyd file that is not decompilable so how would I know what's all in that file?
or am I getting something wrong?
any help appreeeciated
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$ file IBCpp.pyd
IBCpp.pyd: PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
It's a windows library, so it won't even run on linux.
I'd try first the official api since it has python support interactivebrokers.com
I have no idea how the IB api works, but is there no way to create an user/api key with read only access?