Easiest way to get bid-ask spread from IB TWS into Excel?

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by newbunch, May 2, 2022.

  1. newbunch

    newbunch

    Once a day, I want to get bid-ask spreads on about 200 instruments from TWS into Excel? Since I'm limited to just 100 quotes at a time, I would need some way to cycle through instruments and record each spread.

    Anyone know the easiest way to do this?
     
  2. newbunch

    newbunch

    A friend suggested I just export my watchlists' page contents (which include the bid-ask spread) to csv and import those into Excel. Since I don't currently use the API to connect Excel to TWS, that's the simplest solution for me.