My experience with IB is a bit outdated, I used it more than 10 years ago. The thing I didn't like at the time was the fact that you needed to run the java based client on a windows machine, I'd rather have a pure API in a Linux server. (But these requirements are probably not yours). However thing...

Afaik it's very easy to setup a margin account at IB directly? And they have an API with examples. Why are you considering trading via IB via Quantopian? Is there some benefit? Hi, I chose Quantopian for the reasons below, (1) I tested connection to IB via Quantopian, it was easy for me compared to...

I am considering to start an algo-trading with interactive broker (IB). I have a relative good knowledge in math but not in finance or programming. Recently, I found that Quantopian is a good place to offer live trading with IB. Although it provides limited data access, for instance no historical op...