Interactive Brokers vs Tradier on TradersPost

Interactive Brokers and Tradier differ on 7 of 21 points TradersPost compares: authentication, stock options, index options, trailing stops and 3 more. Both support stocks, short selling, market orders, limit orders, stop orders, bracket orders, stop limit orders, day orders, good till canceled orders and paper accounts.

Interactive Brokers Tradier
  • Authentication

    OAuth

    OAuth or API key

  • Stock Options

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Index Options

    Not supported

    Supported

  • Trailing stops

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Immediate or cancel orders

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Trailing stop attached to entry

    Supported

    Not supported

  • Modify open orders

    Not supported

    Supported

Same on both 10

  • Stocks
  • Short selling
  • Market orders
  • Limit orders
  • Stop orders
  • Bracket orders
  • Stop limit orders
  • Day orders
  • Good till canceled orders
  • Paper accounts

Neither supports 4

  • Futures
  • Crypto
  • Fractional quantity
  • Fill or kill orders

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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

Tradier

  • Trailing stops are not sent to Tradier.
  • Paper/sandbox market data is delayed 15 minutes.
  • You paste a sandbox token for paper; live uses OAuth.

View Tradier connection View Tradier docs

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