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I am using matlab and interactive brokers API. I am getting real time data using

tickerID = ib.realtime({ct},'233',@(varargin)ibEventRealTimeData(varargin{:}));

where ib is the interface to interactive brokers TWS Activex object and ct is the contract.

I am getting all the events (ticksize, tickprice and so on) but I can't aggregate data/prices (for example, in 5 minute bars). What am I missing?

Thanks.

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  • $\begingroup$ What do you mean by "I can't aggregate"? Any error message? $\endgroup$
    – Wisentgenus
    Jun 29, 2015 at 18:37
  • $\begingroup$ If you've got tick data, can't you just generate quantized data using, e.g., the time series object? $\endgroup$
    – Dmitri Nesteruk
    Jun 30, 2015 at 5:08
  • $\begingroup$ Hi Wisentgenus. I mean something similar to the data provided by this example, but in real time: d = timeseries(ib,ibContract,startdate,enddate,barsize,ticktype) requests Interactive Brokers aggregated intraday data for a specific type of market data tick ticktype. $\endgroup$
    – user1000650
    Jul 3, 2015 at 10:58
  • $\begingroup$ DMitri, could you please give me a hint on how do that? $\endgroup$
    – user1000650
    Jul 3, 2015 at 10:58

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Here is a pure Java library with Matlab examples for getting daily and minute aggregated bars. It is based on IB Java API. I wrapped it to have a simple interface:

http://www.spreadvectors.com/wisentgenus#code


IB has limitations when requesting historical data:

  • Making identical historical data requests within 15 seconds.
  • Making six or more historical data requests for the same Contract, Exchange and Tick Type within two seconds.
  • Do not make more than 60 historical data requests in any ten-minute period.
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In order to aggregate the 5-min bars, you need to add code within your ibEventRealTimeData function that remembers the previous values (possibly using a global or persistent variable) and appends the new data to it.

If you do not need realtime info, you could make a single request for 5-min historical data. But here too, IB sends the results in separate events that you would need to aggregate within your callback.

As an alternative you could use the IB-Matlab product, which connects IB and Matlab, and aggregates the information for you, in both the historical/intra-day request and the realtime bars request.

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