Open AlexCatarino opened 5 years ago
Hi QC Team,
I am very interrested to using ibdownloader to fecth equity historical data. Do you know if there is a specific reason to support only forex for the moment ? Technical issue ? Licence issue ? Provider issue ? Or just because the team or the community hadn't time yet ?
Thanks, Frédéric
There is an extra issue that can be handled in this ticket:
IBDownloader is failing to download Forex data because it assumes Market.FXCM
while InteractiveBrokersBrokerage
requires Market.Oanda
for Forex [src].
I am happy to work on this but I have a general question on how QC/Lean is supposed to resolve tickers into symbols as it relates to Toolbox. Is there some lookup mechanism that can check that the ticker is Equity or Forex or Option? Or is it expected that the user would provide this on the command line explicitly, i.e. something like --tickers=QQQ:Equity:USA,EUR.USD:Forex:FXCM
To configure, log-in to IBKR Portal and go to: User Settings -> Market Data Subscriptions ⚙ -> Current GFIS Subscriptions - ⚙ click on gear Select North America -> Level 1 (NBBO)
Subscriptions needed for streaming stock and options data:
Or
This would be really great! Right now offline usage of LEAN is near impossible, and the online ide is constantly corrupting and duplicating files, while the build system is only intermittently online.
Quite interested in the use case of this, would IBDownloader be allowed/added as a substitute for QC Datasets?
Expected Behavior
IBDownloader
can fetch data from all securities types. https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/historical_data.htmlActual Behavior
Only forex is supported.
Potential Solution
Extends
IBDownloader
to support all security types.Checklist
master
branch