Interactive Brokers API Python Library | Background & Setup Pt. 1

We've seen that using APIs can make our entire trading process more efficient, consistent, and ideally less manual. After we explored the TD Ameritrade API, we noticed that some limitations came with it, for example, using a paper account and trading futures. In this series, we explore a new API that gives us access to the Interactive Brokers platform. With this API, we can do most of the same things we did in the TD Ameritrade API, but we get access to a paper account, and we get some new endpoints that will help us find opportunities.

Video 1 focuses on the background of the API, understanding some of the context needed to get us ready to build the Python library, and we will walk through some of the installation steps required to get a bare-bones version up and running.

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