SmartQuant Discussion

Has this been implemented yet?

Hi,

Unfortunately, but not, because IB still does not provide a mechanism to monitor updates for all accounts at the same time(via API).

Regards,
Alex

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Is it possible to just subscribe to 1 FA account by Account number and monitor it that way?

Hi,

Currently, in a case of FA, IB plugin automatically subscribes to the first account updates(usually, 'master' account).

Regards,
Alex

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It would be very helpful if the IB plugin could subscribe to the account specified in the Account property. I primarily use one sub-account with OQ and I would like to access the buying power for that account.

At this point I am just looking for a workaround. Just a static setting, rather than a programmable solution would be better than the current limitation.

How to get CurrentEquity field from BrokerInfo object??

Hi,
have you found a solution for this issue?

OQ team, would it be possilbe that you provide the code for the IB PlugIn and I would code it, so that the user can specify on which account the API should connect to?

Regards
Michael

The solution is an ability of IB API to monitor more than one account at the same time, but they do not allow it.

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Thanks. But OQ could subscribe to the account specified in the Account property. That should not be an issue, is it?

Regards
Michael

Has this been resolved yet? I'm having the same issue with FA accounts.

This can not resolve the problem - you can monitor another(non-master) account, but cannot monitor all accounts at the same time.

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This is IB TWS API limitation.

What's the current state of this? And by "this" I mean the ability to access broker positions, buying power, etc... for a specific FA account. I'm able to set one of my FA accounts as the Monitored Account in the IB provider property field and when I run the above code snippets I get 0's for the other accounts and a valid value for this account. This is far better than only getting info for the umbrella ("F") account but is there a way to change the MonitoredAccount property from within a script?

It actually appears to not refresh the account being accessed when I change the MonitoredAccount property in the properties box (still returns values for the one that was set when I established the connection). When I change to another account, then disconnect and reconnect, it returns "0" across the board, so it only appears to be working for one of my sub accounts. Is this expected? If not, I'll provide more details about the behavior I'm seeing.

But preferred would be a way to change the monitored account within script such that it could loop thru and check each of the accounts programmatically

Hi,

Provider's properties are not accessable from the code(script or strategy).

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Hi,

As explained earlier in another context (ie controlling FIX orders properties), providing access to Providers' properties (just like it is for Instrument) would be one more step in thé direction of a more open and flexible platform. Ideally in my case having access to FIX Order's properties would be nice but that's another step.
Just my 2 cents.

Thanks,
PBJ