Reference

ShinyBroker Objects

These objects are the building blocks that your application uses to work with important tasks like fetching market data or submitting a trade order.

Contract

All tradable assets – even stocks and currencies – are considered

Low-Level Request Messages

These functions process their inputs into packed binary data messages that you can send to a connected IBKR socket to instruct it to do something you’re interested in such as place an order, start or cancel a market data subscription, or simply request the current time.

req_contract_details	Create a contract details request string
req_current_time	Create a request string for the current broker time
req_market_data_type	Create a string for setting your session’s market data type
req_matching_symbols	Create a request string for symbols that loosely match a pattern
req_mkt_data	Create a market data request string
cancel_mkt_data	Create a message to cancel an existing market data subscription by ID
req_sec_def_opt_params	Create a request for the security-defined option parameters of a security
req_ids	Create a request for the next valid numeric ID that can be used to
req_historical_data	Create a request for the historical data of a financial instrument
cancel_historical_data	Create a message that will cancel an existing historical data request.