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I am trying to use IbPY to pull the price of a stock along with its financial statements. I'm new to python and don't entirely understand the complexities of calling some of the different methods within IbPy. I wrote some code to loop through the SP 500 and pull the bid/ask for each stock. I was hoping someone might be able to help me figure out the next step to pull the financial statements. Thoughts on the best way to do that? from ib.opt import ibConnection, message from ib.ext.Contract import Contract from ib.ext.EWrapper import EWrapper from time import sleep import csv with open(r'C:

In https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041&ns=T it is written that in order to use the IB api you have to connect to it through the TWS or IB Gateway. Our API requires connectivity via Trader Workstation (TWS) or IB Gateway. What is the advantage of each? What solution (Gateway or TWS) provides a better performance? The Gateway lacks the GUI of the TWS, but provides the same API. IB writes about the performance: The IB Gateway provides a low-resource alternative to TWS for connecting to the IB trading system via the API. The gateway uses approximately 40% fewer system resources