ib_insync vs trading-ig

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ib_insync		trading-ig
	Project
11	Mentions	3
2,621	Stars	301
-	Growth	2.3%
7.9	Activity	7.7
5 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Python	Language	Python
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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ib_insync

Posts with mentions or reviews of ib_insync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.

IBKR Trading
1 project | /r/algorithmictrading | 12 May 2023
Beat wrapper for Interactive Brokers API, aside from IBridgePy unless you have a good argument.
2 projects | /r/algotrading | 30 Mar 2023
Trader Work Station API coding resources
1 project | /r/interactivebrokers | 10 Nov 2022

Python? Then you can try: https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync
I made an outstanding personal portfolio (in my opinion) that I want to put money into. So why isn't there a Robo investor that you put money into and takes care of this for you?
2 projects | /r/PersonalFinanceCanada | 3 Feb 2022

It depends on you programming ability. Ibinsync is a good wrapper for their API though.
IBApi Data Retrieval Questions
1 project | /r/algotrading | 9 Jan 2022

After some time learning the IB API, I've found the free / open source library IB_INSYNC a helpful addition making the IB TWS API easier to use from Python: https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync
IBKR in open source products
2 projects | /r/interactivebrokers | 28 Sep 2021

look at ib_insync. This python library is written from scratch to work with IB gateway. Unfortunately you will have to package the IB gateway with this. The headless version is way too broken to be useful. https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync
Options Questions Safe Haven Thread | July 05-11 2021
1 project | /r/options | 7 Jul 2021

Using Python, you can pull data from the Yahoo! Finance API 2 for free, and from IBKR's API for not-free (ib-insync is good for this). This will be a bit more work than using a plug-and-play backtester but it will give you complete control over your parameters.
Client Portal API vs TWS / IBGateway API?
2 projects | /r/interactivebrokers | 10 Apr 2021

The other option would be to use IBGateway. I also recall that there are utilities to manage login with IBGateway as well. The problem here is that I had a look at the IB python API and it seems awful. But perhaps ib_insync solves most of those issues? I did all this research a while back and seem to recall that ib_insync doesn't rely on the IB python code at all, right?
Is anyone trading while holding a 9 to 5 job?
1 project | /r/Daytrading | 11 Feb 2021
Options Questions Safe Haven Thread | Jan 25-31 2021
1 project | /r/options | 31 Jan 2021

Interactive Brokers has an API. You can use IB_insync to access it with Python.

trading-ig

Posts with mentions or reviews of trading-ig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-05.

This is 2yrs of building/modifying Python Algorithms/APIs for IG Trading - up on Github
2 projects | /r/algotrading | 5 Sep 2021

no not all, The core scripts used in trading_IG (license in root folder) and some of the scripts in test and the config are from: https://github.com/ig-python/ig-markets-api-python-library
My experience algo trading IG broker
1 project | /r/algotrading | 3 Apr 2021
Looking For Uk Intraday Data For London Stock
1 project | /r/algotrading | 14 Feb 2021

Finally, I've figured it out 🙂 thanks to femtotrader and GitHub https://github.com/ig-python/ig-markets-api-python-library

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ib_insync and trading-ig you can also consider the following projects:

interactive-broker-python-api - A python packaged used to interact with the Interactive Brokers REST API.

backtrader - Python Backtesting library for trading strategies

ibeam - IBeam is an authentication and maintenance tool used for the Interactive Brokers Client Portal Web API Gateway.

finta - Common financial technical indicators implemented in Pandas.

cryptofeed - Cryptocurrency Exchange Websocket Data Feed Handler

algobot - Cryptocurrency trading bot with a graphical user interface with support for simulations, backtests, optimizations, and running live bots.

example-hftish - Example Order Book Imbalance Algorithm

OctoBot - Open source crypto trading bot

roboquant - Roboquant is a fast, flexible, user-friendly and completely free algorithmic trading platform

IG_Trading_Algo_Scripts_Python - IG Trading Algos and Scripts in Python

documentation - This repository contains the documentation for the current Quantiacs project. Check it out at: https://quantiacs.com/documentation/en/

ibgateway - Docker image for IBGateway