Mastering Python for Finance - Second Edition

Sending a simple market order

In the same way that we use for fetching prices, we can reuse the broker variable to send a market order to our broker.

Now suppose that we are interested in buying one unit of the same EUR/USD currency pair; the following code performs this action:

def on_order_event(symbol, quantity, is_buy, transaction_id, status):
    print(
        dt.datetime.now(), '[ORDER]',
        'transaction_id:', transaction_id,
        'status:', status,
        'symbol:', symbol,
        'quantity:', quantity,
        'is_buy:', is_buy,
    )

broker.on_order_event = on_order_event
broker.send_market_order(SYMBOL, 1, True)

The on_order_event() function is defined as the listener for incoming order updates from our broker and is assigned to the broker.on_order_event event handler. For ...