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Quotes downloading

To download historical quotes, Ineractive Brokers's TWS needs to be running and API access enabled. Then execute:

$ barbucket quotes download --universe my_universe
Option Description
-u, --universe Name of the universe to download quotes for

Configuration

You can find some configuration options for quotes downloading within the quotes section of the config file.

Restrictions

  • Right now, only daily quotes are supported
  • End-date will always be today
  • IB is enforcing strict speedlimits, so downloading quotes on IB for many contracts will need some time.