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Interactive Brokers Gateway Docker
What is it?
A docker image to run Interactive Brokers Gateway and TWS without any human interaction on a docker container
It includes:
- IB Gateway (stable or latest)
- Trader Workstation TWS (stable or latest), from
10.26.1h - IBC - to control TWS/IB Gateway (simulates user input).
- Xvfb - a X11 virtual framebuffer to run IB Gateway Application without graphics hardware.
- x11vnc - a VNC server to interact with the IB Gateway user interface (optional, for development / maintenance purpose).
- xrdp/xfce enviroment for TWS. Build on top of linuxserver/rdesktop.
- socat a tool to accept TCP connection from non-localhost and relay it to IB Gateway from localhost (IB Gateway restricts connections to container's 127.0.0.1 by default).
- Optional remote SSH tunnel
to provide secure connections for both IB Gateway and VNC. Only available for
10.19.2g-stableand10.25.1o-latestor greater. - Support parallel execution of
liveandpapertrading mode. - Secrets support (latest
10.29.1e, stable10.19.2mor greater)