Interactive Brokers vs TradeStation on TradersPost

Interactive Brokers and TradeStation differ on 6 of 21 points TradersPost compares: stock options, index options, futures, fill or kill orders and 2 more. Both support stocks, short selling, market orders, limit orders, stop orders, trailing stops, bracket orders, stop limit orders, day orders, good till canceled orders, immediate or cancel orders and paper accounts.

Interactive Brokers TradeStation

  • Stock Options

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Index Options

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Futures

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Fill or kill orders

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Trailing stop attached to entry

    Supported

    Partial

    Stocks

  • Modify open orders

    Not supported

    Supported

Same on both 13

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

Neither supports 2

  • Crypto
  • Fractional quantity

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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

TradeStation

  • TradeStation crypto is not sent through TradersPost.
  • Futures take-profit and stop-loss can be set as price offsets, a percentage or a dollar PnL amount.
  • Rejected prices often mean TradeStation minMove/tick data disagrees with the price in the signal. Check the quote on the trade.

View TradeStation connection View TradeStation docs

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