Interface Contract

The legs of a combined contract definition.

Description of the combo legs.

The unique IB contract identifier.

The trading currency.

Delta and underlying price for Delta-Neutral combo orders. Underlying (STK or FUT), delta and underlying price goes into this attribute.

Description of the contract.

The destination exchange.

If set to true, contract details requests and historical data queries can be performed pertaining to expired futures contracts. Expired options or other instrument types are not available.

IssuerId of the contract.

The contract's last trading day or contract month (for Options and Futures).

Strings with format YYYYMM will be interpreted as the Contract Month whereas YYYYMMDD will be interpreted as Last Trading Day.

The contract's symbol within its primary exchange For options, this will be the OCC symbol.

The instrument's multiplier (i.e. options, futures).

The contract's primary exchange. For smart routed contracts, used to define contract in case of ambiguity. Should be defined as native exchange of contract, e.g. ISLAND for MSFT For exchanges which contain a period in name, will only be part of exchange name prior to period, i.e. ENEXT for ENEXT.BE.

Either Put or Call (i.e. Options). Valid values are P, PUT, C, CALL.

Identifier of the security type.

Security's identifier when querying contract's details or placing orders

ISIN - Example: Apple: US0378331005.

CUSIP - Example: Apple: 037833100.

The security type

The option's strike price.

The asset symbol.

The trading class name for this contract. Available in TWS contract description window as well. For example, GBL Dec '13 future's trading class is "FGBL".