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# Requesting Account Updates

Subscribes to a specific account's information and portfolio. Through this method, a single account's subscription can be started/stopped. As a result from the subscription, the account's information, portfolio and last update time will be received at EWrapper.updateAccountValue, EWrapper.updatePortfolio, EWrapper.updateAccountTime respectively. All account values and positions will be returned initially, and then there will only be updates when there is a change in a position, or to an account value every 3 minutes if it has changed. Only one account can be subscribed at a time. A second subscription request for another account when the previous one is still active will cause the first one to be canceled in favor of the second one.

#### EClient.reqAccountUpdates (

**subscribe:** bool. Set to true to start the subscription and to false to stop it.

**acctCode:** String. The account id (i.e. U123456) for which the information is requested.

)

#### Python

```python
self.reqAccountUpdates(True, self.account)
```

#### Python

```python
from ibapi.client import *
from ibapi.wrapper import *
from ibapi.contract import Contract
import time

class TradeApp(EWrapper, EClient): 
    def __init__(self): 
        EClient.__init__(self, self) 

    def updateAccountValue(self, key: str, val: str, currency: str,accountName: str):
        print("UpdateAccountValue. Key:", key, "Value:", val, "Currency:", currency, "AccountName:", accountName)

    def updatePortfolio(self, contract: Contract, position: Decimal,marketPrice: float, marketValue: float, averageCost: float, unrealizedPNL: float, realizedPNL: float, accountName: str):
        print("UpdatePortfolio.", "Symbol:", contract.symbol, "SecType:", contract.secType, "Exchange:",contract.exchange, "Position:", decimalMaxString(position), "MarketPrice:", floatMaxString(marketPrice),"MarketValue:", floatMaxString(marketValue), "AverageCost:", floatMaxString(averageCost), "UnrealizedPNL:", floatMaxString(unrealizedPNL), "RealizedPNL:", floatMaxString(realizedPNL), "AccountName:", accountName)

    def updateAccountTime(self, timeStamp: str):
        print("UpdateAccountTime. Time:", timeStamp)

    def accountDownloadEnd(self, accountName: str):
        print("AccountDownloadEnd. Account:", accountName)

app = TradeApp()      
app.connect("127.0.0.1", 7496, clientId=1)

time.sleep(1)

app.reqAccountUpdates(True, 'U123456')
app.run()
```

#### Java

```java
client.reqAccountUpdates(true, "U1234567");
```

#### C++

```cpp
m_pClient->reqAccountUpdates(true, "U150462");
```

#### C\#

```csharp
client.reqAccountUpdates(true, "U1234567");
```

#### VB.NET

```vbnet
client.reqAccountUpdates(True, "U1234567")
```