Account Balance
Use get_account_balance to retrieve the current account balance.
Accounts
This function only works when connected to an account.
It does not work when Trade Simulation Mode is checked.
SC’s Futures Trading Service
It does work with SC’s built in trade evaluator connections and the associated accounts.
See here for more:
Selecting the account
The account balance retrieved is the account that you see in the Trade Window that is attached to the chart
Example Code
The method has 2 parameters:
key - the chart from which to get the account balance
subscribe
Use the field account_balance to get the response
from trade29.sc.bridge import SCBridge
bridge = SCBridge()
bridge.get_account_balance('xx', subscribe=True)
while True:
ret = bridge.get_response_queue().get()
print(ret.account_balance)