Schwab API Python Tutorial (Streaming Real-time Data)

Ask questions in the comments and Ill try to answer them.

[amitbuch]

Your study of APIs and publishing videos in concise form is much appreciated. It helps understand the big picture and working examples really quickly.

[TheDiverJim]

really looking forward to digging into this video tonight! really appreciate your work here. very well done. I was reviewing your repo a few weeks ago, love seeing people with real professional code in their hobby code. I wish I was that disciplined.

[ahuruglica]

Great video, thank you for your help.

[Mohamed-M-M]

Great Video. Again this video helped me a lot, Thank you so much.

[coreybell]

Very detailed which is super helpful. By chance do you know if it is possible to stream option chains? Thx!

[PhoenixSunshin]

are you planning on showing how the new code for streaming work?

[Vanishingpoint]

Thanks for the tutorial. I take good ideas from your git repo. Can you by chance make a tutorial how to integrate stream data into a database or a kind of storage which can be used for a trading bot?

[JG-hykv]

How do u connect to nijatrader API team even answer emails at swab

[MLAlgoTrader]

Tyler this is amazing! Any plans on making videos on ordering? What about complex contracts like 4 legs options? Thanks! I am glad I found this since I really want to start algotrading in Schwab and migrate from Interactive Brokers just because Schwab has best customer service!

[MrVarsityphysics]

Do you plan on doing a tut on buying and selling?

[luclubensky]

Appreciate the video! Wanted to clarify if accessing the Schwab API and streaming data is free for those with Schwab brokerage account?

[uc]

Great video, thanks Tyler. Is there a way to pull some of data for technical analysis like Average Directional Index and the Relative Strength Index?

[novasaint]

Thank you so much for this video, incredibly helpful. Currently struggling with streaming level one options data, do you know what format the option should be in when it's added to the stream?

[gaving]

can this be learned without a background in coding? i want to measure realized vol with streaming option chains, is that possible? Then have inputed into excel where i will have my formulas from the live quotes in.

[atharvadeshpande]

When I run till print quote AMD, I get an error: AttributeError: 'Client' object has no attribute 'update_tokens_auto'. If I grey this the programs runs fine, but I would like to enable auto update tokens. Can you let me know what might be happening?

[BuildItLikeBeckhams]

The auth works and I can follow the video including getting an AMD quote.

However, when I try to call streamer.start() it returns "Could not get streamerInfo". I printed client.preferences() and that returns "{'errors': [{'id': 'redacted', 'status': 401, 'title': 'Unauthorized', 'detail': 'Client not authorized'}]}

so basically these 3 functions:

streamer = client.stream
streamer.start()

print this output:
{'errors': [{'id': 'redacted', 'status': 401, 'title': 'Unauthorized', 'detail': 'Client not authorized'}]}
Could not get streamerInfo

Is my account missing some kind of authorization to make streaming calls?


Thanks!

[luis_naar]

Whatever I do, whether with your library or directly with the API method, I can't execute a buy, sell order or cancel one that I make manually, it just gives me error 400, is this just me? or does it happen to more people, what should I pay attention to? I can execute everything else, whether from the account or the market, I get all the information and all the data but it's impossible for me with the orders.

[luvau]

Awesome video! Where exactly were you able to get the documentation for the streaming api? It looks almost exactly the same as the old TD streaming api, just with a few less services available.

[kaejolie]

Thank you for your hard work! Could you make a video on backtesting? Also, I contacted Schwab and they said their sandbox environment is not going to be up until end of this year. Is there a workaround to test our apps with fake money instead of real money?

[JohnTravinsky]

Hi Tyler, thank you for the tutorial.
Is there a limit how many symbols I can add to the stream? What If want to receive level one quotes for 3000 symbols?