Matt Stancliff

That does look like an odd result. I double checked the IBKR docs and it doesn't say anything about exceptions for extra hours other than the obvious `useRTH` flag. Just...

Is there a difference? `lastTradeDateOrContractMonth` for futures must be the futures expiration month (currently `202409`) which tracks with regular equity options also being able to be fetched with their expiration...

Not sure what the end result is then? You appear to suddenly have the information you asked for already but didn't mention originally.

> it even qualifies the Index the requests the chain. Well, it does, but also it doesn't. The notebook is looking up SPX options, but SPX options SPXW options and...

Oh, I see what you're saying now. It is a quirk of the futures options where this works better than with equity options. Futures options have unique `tradingClass` names for...

This week is a good example of the different approaches and problems too. Also I figured out the "can't qualify 0DTE futures options" problem going into this again. There are...

Nothing comes to mind immediately (IBKR only supports full-size FOK orders for options), but if it exists it would be metadata on a special order type from places like these:...

The primary problem is IBKR is a fairly bad bulk data service. Fetching more than one option chain per minute slows down to blocking for 20 seconds to 90 seconds...

Good catch. It looks like most of cases are only parameters for sending data, so technically it's "safe" because the methods never modify the parameters, but still good to be...

Thanks for the improvements! Unfortunately, the other notes in the original reply seem to have been missed: https://github.com/ib-api-reloaded/ib_async/issues/81 The source branch is `next` for updates and I'm fairly certain empty...