IB Portfolio

Fetch current portfolio positions from Interactive Brokers.

IB Connection

TWS or IB Gateway must be running locally with API enabled:

• Paper trading — port 7497
• Live trading — port 7496
• IB_PORT env var — default port when --port is omitted (e.g. IB_PORT=4001 for a Gateway container). Precedence: --port flag > IB_PORT > built-in default. Set it in the shell or a .env file.

Port fallback: If the configured port fails, automatically retry on the other port. If the retry succeeds, save to memory which account type worked (live/paper) and reuse it for all IB skill calls in this and future sessions — until the user explicitly asks for the other account. If both ports fail, ask the user to verify that TWS or IB Gateway is running with API access enabled.

Instructions

Note: If uv is not installed or pyproject.toml is not found, replace uv run python with python in all commands below.

uv run python scripts/portfolio.py [--port PORT]

Arguments

• --port - IB port (default: 7497 for paper trading)
• --account - Specific IB account ID (optional, defaults to first account)

Output

Returns JSON with:

• connected - Whether connection succeeded
• positions - Array of positions with symbol, quantity, avg_cost, market_value, unrealized_pnl

If not connected, explain that TWS/Gateway needs to be running.

Dependencies

• ib-async

Timezone

All timestamps and time-based calculations must use the America/New_York timezone. All JSON output must include generated_at (NY time string) and data_delay fields.