E*TRADE vs Interactive Brokers on TradersPost

E*TRADE and Interactive Brokers differ on 7 of 21 points TradersPost compares: stock options, index options, bracket orders, fill or kill orders and 3 more. Both support stocks, short selling, market orders, limit orders, stop orders, trailing stops, stop limit orders, day orders, good till canceled orders and immediate or cancel orders.

E*TRADE Interactive Brokers

  • Stock Options

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Index Options

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Bracket orders

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Fill or kill orders

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Trailing stop attached to entry

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Modify open orders

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Paper accounts

    Not supported

    Supported

Same on both 11

  • Stocks
  • Short selling
  • Market orders
  • Limit orders
  • Stop orders
  • Trailing stops
  • Stop limit orders
  • Day orders
  • Good till canceled orders
  • Immediate or cancel orders
  • Authentication: OAuth

Neither supports 3

  • Futures
  • Crypto
  • Fractional quantity

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Worth knowing about each

E*TRADE

  • Access tokens last 15 days. After that you must reconnect.
  • A 401 during login is an E*TRADE authentication issue; contact E*TRADE technical support.
  • No E*TRADE paper connection.

View E*TRADE connection View E*TRADE 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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