Clear Street vs Interactive Brokers on TradersPost

Clear Street and Interactive Brokers differ on 10 of 22 points TradersPost compares: stock options, stop orders, trailing stops, bracket orders and 6 more. Both support stocks, short selling, market orders, limit orders, day orders and good till canceled orders.

Brokers change their rules, so check their docs before you connect. TradersPost does not recommend a broker.

Worth knowing about each

Clear Street

• No Clear Street paper connection.
• Bracket, OTO, and OCO orders are not sent. Clear Street does not link orders to each other.
• Options take market and limit orders with a day or good-til-canceled time in force. Stop and trailing stop orders are for stocks.

View Clear Street connection View Clear Street docs

Interactive Brokers

• Stocks only. IBKR futures, options, and crypto are not sent through this WebAPI integration, even when those products exist in TWS.
• IBKR allows one active login session per username. Logging into TWS or the IBKR mobile app with the same username can interrupt automated orders.
• The North America API reset window is 23:45–00:45 ET. Signals in that window can fail even with retries.

View Interactive Brokers connection View Interactive Brokers docs

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