Interactive Brokers and the TWS API

• Running the Interactive Brokers Trade Station

  
  Unfortunately computer trading with Interactive Brokers seems to require that one run the Trade Station system (TWS) manually. The Trade Station GUI is written in Java. To run it the following command is used:
  

  java -cp jts.jar:pluginsupport.jar:jcommon-1.0.0.jar:jfreechart-1.0.0.jar:jhall.jar:other.jar:riskfeed.jar:rss.jar -Xmx256M jclient.LoginFrame .

  
  This command runs from the directory containing the Interactive Brokers ".jar" files.

• Interactive Brokers Account Management URL

  This allows accounts to be set up by the master account. Account Management

• The IB TWS API

  API Download Page API Users Guide TWS Users Guide The TWS Users Guide defines some terms that are not defined in the API guide.

• TWS Workstation (Linux) Download

TWS Workstation

• Default TCP/IP Port

  
  

  Port = 7494

  
  The port can be selected in the TWS configuration. Multiple instances of TWS can be run, each on a different port.

• IB TWS API References

  • Chuck Caplan's Wiki on the TWS API
  • A tutorial on connecting to and requesting data from TWS via the Java API
  • IB Discussion Board

• IB API Software Architecture