What

This application provides realtime quotes from your Interactive Brokers terminal for the online option risk calculator www.optionpnl.info. Other data providers currently available (Google and Yahoo Finance) deliver delayed quotes only.

Installation

1. Download and install node.js.
2. Download and unarchive this app.
3. Open terminal, navigate to the app directory and run npm install to install dependencies.

Using

1. Start IB Gateway.
2. Run npm start from the app's directory (if it crashes, please, make sure port 9999 is available).
3. Open www.optionpnl.info in your browser.
4. To stop the service press Ctrl-C in a terminal where it was started.

Parameters

Set them before the launch command, like env LOG_LEVEL=4 npm start.

Environment variable	Default value
IB_HOST	127.0.0.1
IB_PORT	7496
IB_CLIENTID	0
LOG_LEVEL	2