Algorithmic Trading using Interactive Broker's Python API

Implement algorithmic trading strategies on Interactive Broker's platform

4.57 (1348 reviews)

Udemy

platform

English

language

Investing & Trading

What you will learn

Algorithmic Trading

Interactive Broker API

Quantitative Finance

Advanced Python Concepts

Why take this course?

Design and deploy trading strategies on Interactive Broker's platform. Automate every step of your strategy including, extracting data (stock data and fundamental data), performing technical/fundamental analysis, generating signals, placing trades, risk management etc. Gain a thorough understanding of native interactive broker's API.

You can expect to gain the following skills from this course

API trading
Advanced python concepts (OOP concepts, multi-threading etc.)
Extracting historical data
Extracting fundamental data
Harnessing streaming tick level data
Incorporating technical indicators using python
End to End strategy design and deployment
Handling asynchronous calls
Sqlite database management
Interactive Broker's TWS terminal
Relevant account settings in IB

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Important note - Course prerequisites:

Please note that this course requires basic python proficiency. At the minimum, you should be comfortable with:

basic python data types and format
basic python data structures such as list, dictionary, tuple etc.
how to create python functions
how to implement loops in python
installing and importing libraries

Basic python proficiency is mandatory because Interactive Broker API's python client uses advanced OOP and asynchronous programming concepts. While, I have devoted an entire section explaining these concepts, students with no python knowledge will really struggle to follow along.

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Reviews

Varun

October 10, 2023

Content is excellent. There is scope for improvement though in terms of "EASE OF VIEWING" for students. The coding lectures capture the entire spyder IDE's screen and hence a very small sized font is visible on screen of both the coding area and the console. This makes it very difficult to go with the flow of the lecture because the content at times being non legible, makes it difficult to read and comprehend. If you watch it in a tablet or a phone, then its more difficult. Some software should be used like other instructors on Udemy generally do, so that relevant live parts of the code where instructor is currently explaining the concept should be zoomed so that it becomes easier for students to read and comprehend what is going on. Otherwise content is excellent. Thanks!

Rui

September 3, 2023

I know programming, but I know 0 (zero) about Python, this modules just made me learn phyton more in two videos than every atempt I've ever made. Waiting for the rest of the rest of the course unfolding. Congratulations Lind regards

Punith

July 8, 2023

Love the course and instructor (Mayank) has pretty good knowledge! Keeping spreading the knowledge across and waiting for more topics.

Naveen

June 28, 2023

Mayank explains in the most understandable method and makes you feel confident with the knowledge and application of learnings.

Mohamed

May 29, 2023

Very well structured course. i gained a very solid understanding of the API and how it works. I am now more confident with than before.

Christopher

May 4, 2023

Very nice course, even when it was made several years ago. the code 96% still applies. As Mayank has mentioned before it is the basic one, just to play around with the concepts of IBAPIs, looking forward to start the advanced one. My half a star is, Mayank you use Spyder and when you were downloading large amounts of historical data, Spyder remembers the data. Myself I use VSCode and it works differently. So what I had to do was save the data into csv files, so I could easily reuse the downloaded data, instead of downloading the same data over and over again in the following exercises. Keep in mind not everyone uses Spyder, if you change this it would be a 5stars.

Vladimir

April 24, 2023

Mayank Rasu found a perfect balance between technical details and financial content. The course is a perfect preparation to creating and trading your own strategies. I highly recommend it.

Broking

April 23, 2023

it's a good course but too complicated. i think it's too theoretical. the instructor replies fast to all questions which is very appreciated.

Congyi

March 31, 2023

This course has helped me greatly in enhancing some areas I don't understand, such as how to calculate returns for intraday trading. Mayank is great in teaching about the details and have a down-to-earth style of teaching, explaining things and details very well, and the responses are quick and kind. I would recommend this course to anyone who is interested in algo trading, however basic Python knowledge about Pandas and NumPy are needed, but not too complicated!

Thirumalai

March 13, 2023

Very nice introduction. Excited to go through rest of the course. A suggestion - The circle around the mouse is a bit distracting. Instead of circle just a bigger pointer would be much better.

Daniel

March 13, 2023

This was a large undertaking for a beginner like myself. Taking the time to explain each line of code was a big help in understanding the overall framework.

John

February 11, 2023

New to Python....I'm a willing student that wants to understand algo trading on IB platform. I will catch up on coding Python syntax.

Tomas

February 7, 2023

I finished this course and I must say it's full of practical and useful information. Mayank is a capable presenter. The course goes exactly to the point, i.e., to show basics of IB API. If you were struggling to read IB API documentation and how to put things together to connect to IB API and get the data, this is the course you need to take.

Mohamed

January 28, 2023

too many mistakes and not organized, it's very hard to understand with the instructor moving around all files and documents , and I think this course at least 20% of it the instructor saying "right", "you know", "ok" which really annoyed me and made it hard to understand the topic

Miroslav

January 4, 2023

You are a genius, buddy. Thank you for a fantastic course. I'm in the middle of it (I just started technical analysis), and I finally understood how IB API works. I saw so many tutorials on YT, but you are absolutely the best.

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