Financial instruments, also known as securities, are assets that can be traded in an exchange. In an exchange, there can be tens of thousands of financial instruments. The list of financial instruments is static in nature, as it doesn't change during the live trading hours. Financial instruments may change from time to time, but never within the same day. Having this data handy is the first step for algorithmic trading. This recipe shows how to fetch the list of financial instruments.
Getting ready
Make sure the broker_connection object is available in your Python namespace. Refer to the Technical requirements section of this chapter to set it up.
How to do it…
Fetch and display all the available financial instruments using broker_connection:
>>> instruments = broker_connection.get_all_instruments()
>>> instruments
We get the following output (your output may differ):
How it works…
This recipe fetches all...
