Interactive Brokers TWS API - and yet it works!

in #interactivebrokers • 5 months ago (edited)

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If you glance over the forums, it looks like this software was forged in the fires of hell. Follow me in a journey to the depths.

A friend asked if I could help as he was having a hard time integrating IKBR TWS API. Apparently, he's not alone:

Even after all the above pain in my day job, I'm still yet to come across an offering as crap as the TWS API. - DanWritesCode

I have been developing code for about 15 years, professionally, and have never seen a piece of garbage like the TWS Api. - puzzled_orc

I put IBKR TWS not just at the bottom of the list, it's twice as bad as the most crappy system out there. - Causal-Capital

After reviewing TWS offer, it's definitely legacy code.

The API grew to support a multitude of requests in a non-standard and non-organized fashion. But legacy code, is also code that has been running for ages, most likely providing mission-critical functionality, and there's certainly value in that.

Read the rest here:
https://wasteofserver.com/interactive-brokers-tws-gateway-api-and-yet-it-works/

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