[Q] Have you tried out Alpaca?

[onionhammer]

The Interactive Brokers API is a little weird in that you don’t connect directly to their servers; you connect to their locally running desktop app, and it proxies your requests. This is strange, but it has the advantages that your API code doesn’t have to worry about authentication, and you get a free whiz-bang daytrading GUI to watch the action and impress your friends. I’ll be honest – it’s a pretty crappy application, but we’re stuck with it.

Seems like it would be easier to jumpstart than Java weirdness for IB