ib-kivy

kivy GUI application wrapping Interactive Brokers' TWS API to show market data

Requirements

Software

• Interactive Brokers Trader Working Station (IB TWS)
• TWS API
• python 3
• kivy

Hardware

• anything larger than AWS EC2 t2.small

Optional tools

• pipenv
• git

Installation

• To install Rethinkdb go to Install Rethinkdb and choose your operating system, then to Installing the Python driver for installing the python driver.
• To launch Rethinkdb simply type rethinkdb in terminal for mac os and linux or type C:\Users\Slava\RethinkDB\>rethinkdb.exe for windows.
• To run the python scripts, first you need to make sure all the modules are installed and have the rethinkdb database working and running.
• To create a table and setting a primary key in a database in Rethinkdb run the python script createtablePK.py .
• To populate the database table in Rethinkdb run the python script updatetable.py and change your csv file directory and database name and table.
• To display the tables from the csv files and Rethinkdb database run the wxPython app newapp.py and change your csv file directory and database name and table.

Video demonstrating the app running: video