IBKR: Interactive Brokers

Overview

A modern, TypeScript-based Node.js client for Interactive Brokers (IBKR) that provides a simplified interface to the IBKR API. This package is a wrapper around @stoqey/ib, which implements the official IBKR API. It offers a more developer-friendly way to interact with Interactive Brokers' trading platform, abstracting away the complexity of the underlying API.

Key Features

	Feature
✅	Accounts
✅	Portfolios
✅	Orders
✅	Historical Data
✅	Realtime price updates
✅	Contracts (stocks/forex/options/index .e.t.c)
⬜️	Mosaic Market scanner
⬜️	News

1. Install

npm i @stoqey/ibkr

2. Usage

Create a .env in the root dir of your project, set IBKR_HOST and IBKR_PORT, IBKR_CLIENT_ID(Optional, it'll use 0 by default), and DEBUG for logs, like this

IBKR_HOST=localhost
IBKR_PORT=7497
IBKR_CLIENT_ID=123
DEBUG=ibkr* 

Initialize

import ibkr from '@stoqey/ibkr';

await ibkr();

// your code

Accounts Summary e.t.c

import { AccountSummary } from  "@stoqey/ibkr";

const accountInstance = AccountSummary.Instance;

// account summaries is automatically updated for you
const accountSummaries = accountInstance.accountSummary;

const accountId = accountSummaries.accountId;

const totalCashValue = accountSummaries.TotalCashValue.value;

Portfolios

import { Portfolios } from  "@stoqey/ibkr";
// Get current portfolios
const portfolios = Portfolios.Instance;

// positions is automatically updated for you
const accountPortfolios = portfolios.positions;

Historical Data + Realtime price updates

• Market data

import { MarketDataManager } from '@stoqey/ibkr';

// 1. Get market data manager
const mkdManager = MarketDataManager.Instance;

// 2. Get market data async promise
const data = await mkdManager.getHistoricalData(contract, endDateTime, durationStr, barSizeSetting, whatToShow,useRTH );

• Real-time price updates

import { MarketDataManager, IBKREvents, IBKREVENTS } from '@stoqey/ibkr';

// 1. Get IBKR events
const ibkrEvents = IBKREvents.Instance;

// 2. Get market data manager
const mkdManager = MarketDataManager.Instance;

// 3. Request historical data updates
await mkdManager.getHistoricalDataUpdates(contract,barSizeSetting, whatToShow);

// 3. Subscribe for historical data updates
ibkrEvents.on(IBKREVENTS.IBKR_BAR, (bar: MarketData) => {
     // use the historical data updates here
});

// 4. get the cached marketdata
const cachedData = await mkdManager.historicalData(contract, start, end)

// Unsubscribe from historical data updates
mkdManager.removeHistoricalDataUpdates(contract);

Contracts

import { MarketDataManager } from '@stoqey/ibkr';

// 1. Get market data manager
const mkdManager = MarketDataManager.Instance;

const contract = {
  symbol: "PLTR",
  secType: "STK"
};

const contractDetails = await mkdManager.getContract(contract);

//  or e.g options
const contractDetails = await mkdManager.getContract({
    currency: 'USD',
    exchange: 'SMART',
    multiplier: 100,
    right: 'C',
    secType: 'OPT',
    strike: 300,
    symbol: 'AAPL'
});

// e.g forex
const contractDetails = await mkdManager.getContract({
    "symbol":"GBP",
    "secType":"CASH",
    "currency":"USD",
});

Orders

import { Orders, OrderStock, IBKREvents, IBKREVENTS } from '@stoqey/ibkr';

// 1. Get IBKR events
const ibkrEvents = IBKREvents.Instance;

// 2. Get orders manager
const ordersManager = Orders.Instance;

// 3. Place order
const contract = await mkdManager.getContract({...})
const myOrder = {...}
const placedOrder = await ordersManager.placeOrder(contract, myOrder);

// 4. Modify order
const modifyOrder = await ordersManager.placeOrder(id, contract, myOrder);

// get orders, this is automatically updated
const orders = ordersManager.orders;

// get filled orders(trades), this is automatically updated
const trades = ordersManager.trades;

// subscribe for trades, when orders are filled in real time
ibkrEvents.on(IBKREVENTS.IBKR_SAVE_TRADE, (bar: Trade) => {
     // use trade here
});

// other methods e.t.c....
await ordersManager.cancelOrder(orderId)

await ordersManager.cancelAllOrders()        

see any .test.ts file for examples

3. Debug

We use debug library for logging. Run with DEBUG=ibkr:* to see all logs, or DEBUG=ibkr:info for less verbose logs.

See change log for updates

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