【How 2】Set Up Trading API Template In Python — Connecting My Trading Strategies To Interactive Brokers

Building your trading strategy to connect to a broker with the broker’s proprietary API is always dreadful. There are tones of API documentation to read, tones of trial-and-error tests to conduct, and tones of unknown causes and bugs that fail your API test. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate my MVP API template to get my trading strategies to work, so that you can build your own in a way that makes your trading strategies work as well.

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