Interactive Brokers vs Robinhood on TradersPost
Interactive Brokers and Robinhood differ on 6 of 21 points TradersPost compares: short selling, fractional quantity, bracket orders, trailing stop attached to entry and 2 more. Both support stocks, market orders, limit orders, stop orders, trailing stops, stop limit orders, day orders, good till canceled orders and immediate or cancel orders.
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Short selling
Supported
Limited
Selling to open accepts market and limit orders only.
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Fractional quantity
Not supported
Supported
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Bracket orders
Supported
Not supported
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Trailing stop attached to entry
Supported
Not supported
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Modify open orders
Not supported
Supported
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Paper accounts
Supported
Not supported
Same on both 10
- Stocks
- 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 5
- Stock Options
- Index Options
- Futures
- Crypto
- Fill or kill orders
Link to this comparison /compare/connections/ibkr-vs-robinhood
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Worth knowing about each
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
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.