Interactive Brokers Gateway in Docker

Latest Versions

• IB Gateway: v10.12.2h
• IBC: v3.12.0
• ib_insync: v0.9.70

Getting Started

1. Download the latest IB Gateway installation script from here to your cloned repo.
2. Set TWS_USER_ID and TWS_PASSWORD respectively in your system's environment.
3. Run the following:

docker-compose up --build

You will now have the IB Gateway app running on port 4003 for Live trading and 4004 for Paper trading. See docker-compose.yml for configuring VNC password, accounts and trading mode.

WARNING: All IPs on your network are able to connect to your box and place trades - so please do not open your box to the internet.

History

This repo is built on mvberg's and dvasdekis's work.

dvasdekis

• Replaced IB Controller with IBC
• Ubuntu 16.04 → 20.04
• Removed installers after use
• Compatible with Stackdriver logging
• Optimization of Java runtime options
• VNC scripting (which didn't restart the container on error) fixed via Supervisor
• Optimized for e2-small instance on GCP

d3an

• Example usage for dual paper/live containers
• Minor refactors and abstractions
• Version updates

Docker Hub Image (Expired)

• dvasdekis/ib-gateway-docker

To start an instance on Google Cloud: gcloud compute instances create-with-container my-ib-gateway --container-image="docker.io/dvasdekis/ib-gateway-docker:v978" --container-env-file="./ibgateway.env" --machine-type=e2-small --container-env TWSUSERID="$tws_user_id",TWSPASSWORD="$tws_password",TRADING_MODE=paper --zone="my-preferred-zone"

Logging in with VNC:

1. Uncomment the lines marked 'ports' in docker-compose
2. SSH into server and run mkdir ~/.vnc && echo "mylongpassword" > ~/.vnc/passwd && x11vnc -passwd mylongpassword -display ":99" -forever -rfbport 5900 as root
3. Log in with a remote VNC client using mylongpassword on port 5901

Troubleshooting

Read-Only API warning:

IBC has decided to not support switching off the Read-Only checkbox (on by default) on the API Settings page.

To work around it for some operations, you'll need to write a file named ibg.xml to /root/Jts/*encrypted user id*/ibg.xml. The ibg.xml file can be found in this folder after a successful run and close, and contains the application's settings from the previous run.

Sometimes, when running in non-daemon mode, you'll see this:

Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

You will have to remove the container docker rm container_id and run docker-compose up again.