Get account summary from Interactive Brokers including cash balance, buying power, and account value. Use when user asks about their account, balance, buying power, or available cash. Requires TWS or IB Gateway running locally.
Fetch account summary from Interactive Brokers.
User must have TWS or IB Gateway running locally with API enabled:
Note: If
uvis not installed orpyproject.tomlis not found, replaceuv run pythonwithpythonin all commands below.
uv run python scripts/account.py [--port PORT] [--account ACCOUNT_ID] [--all-accounts]
--port - IB port (default: 7496 for live trading)--account - Specific account ID to fetch--all-accounts - Fetch summaries for all managed accountsDefault behavior (no flags): fetches the first managed account only.
Always use --all-accounts unless the user asks for a specific account.
Returns JSON with:
connected - Whether connection succeededaccounts - List of account summaries, each with account ID, net liquidation, cash, buying power, etc.If not connected, explain that TWS/Gateway needs to be running.
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