README.Rmd

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title: IBrokers2 Package for Executing Real-Time Trading Strategies Via the API of Interactive Brokers
author: "Jerzy Pawlowski (algoquant)"
tags: Interactive Brokers, API
abstract: R functions for executing real-time trading strategies via the <a href="https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/" target="_blank">API of Interactive Brokers (IB API)</a>.  The package *IBrokers2* is derived from *IBrokers*, and is fully backward compatible with it.
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### Overview

The package *IBrokers2* contains *R* functions for executing real-time trading strategies via the <a href="https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/" target="_blank">API of Interactive Brokers (IB API)</a>.  The package *IBrokers2* is derived from package <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IBrokers/index.html" target="_blank"><em>*IBrokers*</em></a>, and is fully backward compatible with it.  This means that all the *IBrokers* functions and variables are preserved exactly in *IBrokers2*, while some additional functions have been added.  The new functions mostly provide additional trade execution capabilities, for running systematic trading strategies in a callback loop.

More information can be found in the document *real_time_trading.html* in the vignettes sub-directory.


### Installation and Loading

Install package *IBrokers2* from github:  
```{r eval=FALSE}
if (!("package:devtools" %in% search() || require("devtools", quietly=TRUE)))
    install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github(repo="algoquant/IBrokers2")
library(IBrokers2)
```
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