Robinhood vs TradeStation on TradersPost
Robinhood and TradeStation differ on 9 of 21 points TradersPost compares: stock options, index options, futures, short selling and 5 more. Both support stocks, market orders, limit orders, stop orders, trailing stops, stop limit orders, day orders, good till canceled orders, immediate or cancel orders and modify open orders.
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Stock Options
Not supported
Supported
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Index Options
Not supported
Supported
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Futures
Not supported
Supported
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Short selling
Limited
Selling to open accepts market and limit orders only.
Supported
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Fractional quantity
Supported
Not supported
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Bracket orders
Not supported
Supported
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Fill or kill orders
Not supported
Supported
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Trailing stop attached to entry
Not supported
Partial
Stocks
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Paper accounts
Not supported
Supported
Same on both 11
- Stocks
- Market orders
- Limit orders
- Stop orders
- Trailing stops
- Stop limit orders
- Day orders
- Good till canceled orders
- Immediate or cancel orders
- Modify open orders
- Authentication: OAuth
Neither supports 1
- Crypto
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Worth knowing about each
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.
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.