Request & Modify Orders

Hello, and welcome to this lesson on the Interactive Brokers Client Portal API. In this lesson, we will be discussing how to request all live orders as well as how to modify and cancel existing orders.

Retrieve list of live orders

In many instances, you would want to review the orders on your account. To do this, we simply need to make a GET request to the “iserver/account/orders”. I can set that to my endpoint variable and send this as a GET request.

This endpoint functions similar to the /iserver/marketdata/snapshot endpoint in the sense that I need to instantiate the request, and then send the request a second time to retrieve my information. After the second request, my response body will show a list of all orders I’ve placed today.

Modifying Orders

Receiving our active orders is important, as it allows us to modify orders. If we look through our open orders, we may find orders previously submitted and their orderIds. These orderIds allow us to modify a specific order. This will require a unique endpoint, so let’s go ahead and create a new python file with our standard framework.

In a modifyOrder() method, let’s go ahead and create a base_url variable. Next, we can create an endpoint variable set to “iserver/account/{accountId}/order/”. Similar to the reply endpoint, I will need to append our orderId onto the endpoint. To do so, I will create a variable order_id, and set this equal to one of our submitted order ID’s. Now I can create the variable modify_url and set it equal to ‘“”.join([base_url, endpoint, order_id])’.

 Next, I can designate the json_body variable. This will largely mimic the order we had created before. While most of these values can be copied from our /orders response, it makes sense that we may want to modify some of these values. I will update the price to make this three dollars higher. If submit this request, we can call our live orders endpoint to see this value has updated.

Cancelling Orders

While some individuals may need to modify their orders, an equal number may need to fully cancel an order using the Client Portal API. This process will be quite similar to the last. Opening a new file and filling in our typical framework, let’s start by creating our endpoint variable. This will be set to “iserver/account/{accountId}/order/”. Now, like I did before, I can retrieve an orderId from my live orders request, and set the value to my order_id variable. Finally, I can join these three values together and set it to my cancel_url variable.

With my variable in place, I can start building my request. I will set the variable, cancel_req, equal to requests.delete(url=cancel_url, verify=False). If you have been following along in the series, we can see the pattern that GET will receive information, POST will add or modify information, and our new DELETE will understandably delete something.

Getting this all sorted, I can create a quick json.dumps reference, and then print the status code and body response. Here, I will see my usual 200 message, but now I can see the field “msg” stating that the request was submitted to cancel the order. I can also retrieve the orderId of the order I canceled. Given our order is now in a “cancel” state, the conid and accountId are now null values. This means our order is now closed.

Thank you for watching this lesson on retrieving order information along with modifying and cancelling orders in the Client Portal API. If you find this lesson helpful, please check out our other lessons in the Client Portal API tutorial series.

openOrders.py

import requests
import json
import urllib3

# Ignore insecure error messages
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)

def orderRequest():
  
    base_url = "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/"
    endpoint = "iserver/account/orders"
    
    order_req = requests.get(url = base_url+endpoint, verify=False)
    order_json = json.dumps(order_req.json(), indent=2)

    print(order_req.status_code)
    print(order_json)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    orderRequest()

Code Snippet – modifyOrder.py

import requests
import json
import urllib3

# Ignore insecure error messages
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)

def orderModify():
  
    base_url = "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/"
    endpoint = "iserver/account/DU5240685/order/"
    order_id = "1010551026"
    modify_url = "".join([base_url, endpoint, order_id])
    
    json_body = {
        "conid":265598,
        "orderType":"STP",
        "price":187,
        "side": "SELL",
        "tif": "DAY",
        "quantity":10
    }
    order_req = requests.post(url = modify_url, verify=False, json=json_body)
    order_json = json.dumps(order_req.json(), indent=2)

    print(order_req.status_code)
    print(order_json)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    orderModify()

Code Snippet – cancelOrder.py

import requests
import json
import urllib3

# Ignore insecure error messages
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)

def orderCancel():
  
    base_url = "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/"
    endpoint = "iserver/account/DU5240685/order/"
    order_id = "1010551026"
    cancel_url = "".join([base_url, endpoint, order_id])
    
    cancel_req = requests.delete(url = cancel_url, verify=False)
    cancel_json = json.dumps(cancel_req.json(), indent=2)

    print(cancel_req.status_code)
    print(cancel_json)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    orderCancel()