Robinhood integration

[starforever]

Dear Zipline Maintainers,

Is there any plan to support live trading on Robinhood? Any ideas on the difficulty of implementing this on top of the current code base?

Sincerely, Peichao

[tibkiss]

Hi Peichao,

Robinhood is a logical next step as brokerage support for us, but as of now no-one has volunteered to pick this work item up.

I cannot assess the difficulty of integration as I haven't seen the RH API yet. All that needs to be done is a class which implements Broker abstract class's methods: https://github.com/zipline-live/zipline/blob/master/zipline/gens/brokers/broker.py

You can take a look how we're implementing those for IB in here: https://github.com/zipline-live/zipline/blob/master/zipline/gens/brokers/ib_broker.py

[bdowling]

I've been poking at the API and tweaking the module over here https://github.com/Jamonek/Robinhood that should make this effort fairly straightforward..

I will likely take a stab at this as I've been wanting this even before quantopian pulled out the welcome mat on us. They had enough outages in live trading and general website availability that I figured I would want more control and redundancies when my algo is running.

[tibkiss]

@bdowling : Good catch! Feel free to assign this issue to yourself if you start working on it. Thanks for your contribution!

[madderle]

@bdowling have you worked on integrating Robinhood yet?

[madderle]

@tibkiss can you elaborate more on if a new rh_broker.py file is created, how does it get instantiated?

[tibkiss]

@madderle: It is instantiated here: https://github.com/zipline-live/zipline/blob/master/zipline/__main__.py#L287

Please note that @rigoorozco has get this very close to completion: https://github.com/zipline-live/zipline/pull/79 Unfortunately the underlying lib needs further massaging.

Feel free to join our slack channel (available at contacts page in https://zipline-live.io) for more quick turnaround.

[bdowling]

I was doing some work on the Robinhood module before circling back to this. I also tried to look at #79, but it appears @rigoorozco has abandoned that PR and removed his commits entirely. Would be nice to collaborate on this if you already have something @rigoorozco ...

[rigoorozco]

@bdowling there is now a zipline-live fork for the Robinhood API made by Jamonek. I made a pull request to with some changes that @tibkiss requested, which still need to be reviewed. I am working on adding the Robinhood broker class with the modified Robinhood API. I should have them done soon

[arnav-gudibande]

@rigoorozco I'm interested in implementing this feature and happy to help. What is the status of rh_broker and is it available anywhere yet?

[rigoorozco]

It still needs some work. I have a fork on my account with the additions I’ve made. I'd love to get someone else's eyes on it

[rigoorozco]

@arnav-gudibande all these changes use my fork of the Robinhood API