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Re: Is there a wrapper api/sdk around that abstracts core trading functionality on top of the base ibkr api?


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The IB libraries are needlessly complicated and convoluted in my view.

My plain C library gets the job of reading messages done with a single function twsGetMsg() which returns a union with the message filled in. That's it. A message is physically just a bunch of fields read from the socket - how complicated can they make such a simple thing?


On 2/17/2021 2:49 PM, Ajay Joglekar wrote:

You described exactly my own physiological reaction after reading tws api :-)

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 9:39 AM Alex Gorbachev <ag@...> wrote:
I looked around and my head started to hurt from the design of the TWS API. :) So I went directly to ib_insync which seems to be somewhat well maintained.
It's actually not too dissimilar from TWS API but just removes some annoying plumbing.

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