Anyone successful to use R/Python for IB API trading?

Dear-

I have a interest in using R or Python for IB API trading.
Please drop a line if anyone was successful.

Also appreciated if one can show me any link to use R/Python.

 

Is this for futures, equities or options? I'm not a programmer, I'm just interested in why you choose this path.

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Although I never account in future/option, I spent > 5 years of equity trade experience.

It is to save time to type in the keyboard in PC, such as for hundreds of BUY/SELL orders everyday.

 

Thx. So for automated equity trading.

 

In short, like to use R/Python code

1) to login
2) get the portfolio for the current holding equities
3) get the price for every 1 minutes, for my personal few hundreds watch list
4) send an order, based on my matrix file with dimension of 10 rows and 6 columns.

In my guess, at lease 6 columns are required for symbol, BUY/SELL, price, share, etc.
and 10 is the number of orders.

Please note that most of the four are already working fine, with use of Excel/VB/DDE. Just need R/Python conversion.

 

You might want to take a look at IBPy, I use it for historical data but not for live trading.

 

http://bit.ly/1dSARdP

 

http://qoppac.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/using-swigibpy-so-that-python-will-play.html

 

Thanks. I see some advance.