Trade outside of Regular Trading Hour on IB

[xingweicmu]

Hi everyone,

I am using paper account to trade on IB. My problem is I cannot put DAY order with limit order in after-hours on IB.

So I was trying to put a limit order in after-hours on IB using the following piece of code:

                self.log('BUY CREATE, %.2f' % self.data.close[0])
                self.order = self.buy(
                        size=self.p.size,
                        exectype=bt.Order.Limit,
                        price=round(self.data.close[0] * 1.01, 2),
                        valid=bt.Order.DAY,
                )

The order wasn't executed even when the limit price is reached. But if I put the limit order with the same value on TWS directly, the order was executed instantly. So by comparing those two orders, I find the order that I manually put on TWS has a DAY time in force while the one created by backtrader don't have a time in force(even though I put valid param as DAY in above code), see the following screenshot.

Order generated by backtrader:

So I wonder if I was doing it in the wrong way or how I could put a limit order with DAY time in force in after-hours.

Thanks~

[vladisld]

I'm using the following code to buy/sell outside of regular hours:

self.buy(data=self.data_feed,
       size=order_size,
       price=lot.buy_price(),
       exectype=Order.Limit ,
       outsideRth=True,
       valid=Order.DAY)

[xingweicmu]

@vladisld Thank you man! outsideRth=True is what I am looking for!