Can Interactive Brokers' free Excel RTD server show positions and orders? #2
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No. IBKR's TWS API documentation states it directly: "only top-level market data is supported via TWS RTD Server API. No trading capability or other data types are supported." (Source.) To get account, position, and order data into Excel you can use IBKR's DDE bridge (full API functionality as of API v975) or ActiveX control — both older or more code-heavy paths — write your own middleware over the socket API, export files, or use a commercial RTD server. StreamXLS is one of those: it streams account, position, order, and market data through the same |
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No. IBKR's TWS API documentation states it directly: "only top-level market data is supported via TWS RTD Server API. No trading capability or other data types are supported." (Source.)
To get account, position, and order data into Excel you can use IBKR's DDE bridge (full API functionality as of API v975) or ActiveX control — both older or more code-heavy paths — write your own middleware over the socket API, export files, or use a commercial RTD server. StreamXLS is one of those: it streams account, position, order, and market data through the same
=RTD()mechanism the free sample uses for quotes. Comparison of all the paths: RTD vs DDE vs ActiveX.