Coinbase vs Robinhood on TradersPost

Coinbase and Robinhood differ on 8 of 21 points TradersPost compares: authentication, stocks, crypto, short selling and 4 more. Both support fractional quantity, market orders, limit orders, stop limit orders, good till canceled orders, immediate or cancel orders and modify open orders.

Coinbase Robinhood

  • Authentication

    OAuth or API key

    OAuth

  • Stocks

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Crypto

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Short selling

    Not supported

    Limited

    Selling to open accepts market and limit orders only.

  • Stop orders

    Limited

    Stop-limit only. Plain stop orders are not offered.

    Supported

  • Trailing stops

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Day orders

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Fill or kill orders

    Supported

    Not supported

Same on both 7

  • Fractional quantity
  • Market orders
  • Limit orders
  • Stop limit orders
  • Good till canceled orders
  • Immediate or cancel orders
  • Modify open orders

Neither supports 6

  • Stock Options
  • Index Options
  • Futures
  • Bracket orders
  • Trailing stop attached to entry
  • Paper accounts

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Worth knowing about each

Coinbase

  • Spot crypto only.
  • Dust above the tradable minimum still counts toward max strategy positions.

View Coinbase connection View Coinbase docs

Robinhood

  • Stocks only. Robinhood crypto and options are not sent through TradersPost.
  • Opening a short is limited to Market or Limit with Day time in force. Fractional shorts are not sent.
  • Market orders cannot use GTC. Bracket, OTO, and OCO order classes are not sent.

View Robinhood connection View Robinhood docs

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