Interactive Brokers API with Python and ib_async
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In this series, I show you how to use ib_async: a Python library designed to simplify coding with the Interactive Brokers API.
Timestamps
0:00 Overview: What is ib_async?
1:06 Demo of what we'll build
3:04 Support ib_async project, support my channel
4:43 Asynchronous Programming
6:03 Chess Exhibition Analogy
8:20 How does this relate to ib_async
9:03 Historical data fetch - synchronous version
12:28 Fetching for many symbols synchronously (slow)
14:43 Updated structured for multiple symbols
15:57 Making it async - asyncio.run(), async def
18:10 Using await and coroutines / tasks, chess analogy continued
20:02 Updating fetch data for async
20:20 Firing off many coroutines / tasks with asyncio.gather() (faster)
23:32 Wrapping Up and What's Next
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