Sending and retrieving portfolio NAME to IBPy?

[Abhay Soorya]

Hi all,

Answers/advice to these two questions would be much appreciated!

a) What I want to do is pass several orders into multiple portfolios - e.g. if I short Apple, then I want to short it in a specific portfolio. Kindly note that I am not talking about sub accounts (which require their own funding I believe), but about a master fund with multiple portfolios. Do you  know if the API accommodates for passing an order/executing a trade with a portfolio tag attached to it?

b) On that same note, is it possible to retrieve that information through IBPy? I am familiar with 'reqAccountUpdates' under the callback 'updatePortfolio', and I am able to get positions, price and cost information etc.; however, this does not seem to have a message call (i.e. message.updatePortfolio.XXXX) to get the portfolios that each open position belongs to. Is it possible to retrieve portfolio names (assuming one can pass orders to multiple portfolios)?

Regards,
Abhay