Automate your trading with
Interactive Brokers
Use TradersPost to automate TradingView or TrendSpider strategies in your own Interactive Brokers brokerage account. Send alerts to TradersPost and we route orders to the account you connect.
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Open Interactive Brokers account (opens in a new tab)Your strategies. Your accounts. Your rules.
Connect each strategy to your accounts, then choose how it trades in each one.
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NVDA Momentum Waiting for alertBuy alert received
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Mean Reversion Waiting for alertBuy alert received
- New strategy Create new strategy
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Interactive Brokers $1,310.68 Limit Buy 1x NVDA
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Interactive Brokers $2,621.36 Limit Buy 2x NVDA
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Interactive Brokers Paused Skipped 0.5x NVDA
Ask your agent how our Interactive Brokers integration is right for you.
See your signal reach Interactive Brokers
2. Sends orders to
Interactive Brokers Stocks (fixed for this page)
TradingView · Create alert
- Condition
- Momentum strategy · Order fills
- Webhook URL
- webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/…
Message
{ "ticker": "{{ticker}}", "action": "{{strategy.order.action}}" }
Signal received
TradingView webhook · buy AAPLAccepted
Strategy settingsBuilds the order
- Symbol
- AAPL From signal
- Action
- Buy From signal
- Quantity
- 10 shares From strategy
- Order type
- Market From strategy
4 orders from one signal
| Account | Order | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive Brokers account 1 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Interactive Brokers account 2 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Alpaca account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Tradier account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
A TradingView alert for AAPL reaches TradersPost and becomes a market buy for 10 shares on 2 Interactive Brokers accounts and 1 Alpaca account and 1 Tradier account.
TradingView · Create alert
- Condition
- LuxAlgo indicator · Buy signal
- Webhook URL
- webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/…
Message
{ "ticker": "{{ticker}}", "action": "buy" }
Signal received
LuxAlgo webhook · buy AAPLAccepted
Strategy settingsBuilds the order
- Symbol
- AAPL From signal
- Action
- Buy From signal
- Quantity
- 10 shares From strategy
- Order type
- Market From strategy
4 orders from one signal
| Account | Order | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive Brokers account 1 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Interactive Brokers account 2 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Alpaca account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Tradier account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
A LuxAlgo indicator alert for AAPL reaches TradersPost and becomes a market buy for 10 shares on 2 Interactive Brokers accounts and 1 Alpaca account and 1 Tradier account.
TrendSpider · Bot alert
- Trigger
- Bot signal
- Webhook URL
- webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/…
Webhook body
{ "ticker": "AAPL", "action": "buy" }
Signal received
TrendSpider webhook · buy AAPLAccepted
Strategy settingsBuilds the order
- Symbol
- AAPL From signal
- Action
- Buy From signal
- Quantity
- 10 shares From strategy
- Order type
- Market From strategy
4 orders from one signal
| Account | Order | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive Brokers account 1 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Interactive Brokers account 2 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Alpaca account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Tradier account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
A TrendSpider bot alert for AAPL reaches TradersPost and becomes a market buy for 10 shares on 2 Interactive Brokers accounts and 1 Alpaca account and 1 Tradier account.
Your code or AI workflow · POST
- Method
- POST
- URL
- webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/…
Request body
{ "ticker": "AAPL", "action": "buy" }
Signal received
Code or AI webhook · buy AAPLAccepted
Strategy settingsBuilds the order
- Symbol
- AAPL From signal
- Action
- Buy From signal
- Quantity
- 10 shares From strategy
- Order type
- Market From strategy
4 orders from one signal
| Account | Order | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive Brokers account 1 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Interactive Brokers account 2 | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Alpaca account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
| Tradier account | Buy 10 AAPL | Sent |
A webhook call from your code or AI workflow for AAPL reaches TradersPost and becomes a market buy for 10 shares on 2 Interactive Brokers accounts and 1 Alpaca account and 1 Tradier account.
Interactive Brokers at a glance
The Interactive Brokers connection is generally available and still in beta. The IBKR WebAPI that TradersPost uses sends stocks only.
- Assets
- Stocks
- Account types
- Live + Paper
- Authentication
- OAuth
- No API keys to copy
- Fractional quantity
- Whole quantities
- Complex orders
- Bracket, OTO
- On every asset class
- Quantity limits
- You set them
- A maximum for each of up to 25 tickers. An order past it is rejected or reduced to your maximum
- Signal sources
- Any webhook
- Code, automation tools, AI workflows, TradingView
What Interactive Brokers supports
Order types and features by asset class, as TradersPost sends them to Interactive Brokers.
Interactive Brokers stocks
Long and shortSupported
- Market orders
- Limit orders
- Stop orders
- Stop-limit orders
- Trailing stops
- Short selling
- Day
- Good till canceled
- Immediate or cancel
- At the open
- Bracket orders
- OTO orders
- Trailing stop attached
Not supported
- Fill or kill
- At the close
- OCO orders
- Fractional quantity
Connect Interactive Brokers by signing in
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Choose the broker and confirm
Go to Brokers and choose Interactive Brokers. Tick the box confirming you are authorized to trade the account, then click Connect Interactive Brokers.
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Sign in on Interactive Brokers's site
You are sent to Interactive Brokers's website, not a TradersPost page. Log in and authorize TradersPost to read balances, positions and orders, and to place and cancel trades.
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Name it and enable your accounts
You land on the connection page. Name the connection if you like, then enable each account you want TradersPost to trade.
Comparable connections
Connections that share an asset class with Interactive Brokers. Each card opens the comparison with Interactive Brokers when one exists. TradersPost does not recommend a broker.
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TradeStation Stocks · Stock Options · Index Options · Futures
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Alpaca Stocks · Crypto · Stock Options
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Robinhood Stocks
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tastytrade Stocks · Futures · Crypto · Stock Options · Index Options
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Webull Stocks
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E*TRADE Stocks · Stock Options · Index Options
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Tradier Stocks · Stock Options · Index Options
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Public.com Beta Stocks · Stock Options · Index Options · Crypto
Set up Interactive Brokers
- Documentation Interactive Brokers docs Supported asset classes, limits, and Interactive Brokers-specific behavior.
- Documentation Stock trading docs Supported brokers, signal examples, and how stock orders behave.
- Overview Compare connections Side-by-side asset classes, order types, and paper support across every supported connection.
- Overview Automated trading bots How an alert becomes a broker order, and what usually breaks it.
Go deeper
- Guide TradingView and Interactive Brokers A walkthrough of connecting Interactive Brokers to TradingView through TradersPost.
- Guide IBKR trade failures Why IBKR orders can fail on connectivity and how to handle the interruptions.
- Guide Does TradersPost support IBKR futures? IBKR is stocks only on TradersPost, and which connections to use for futures.
- Concept Order classes: bracket, OCO, OTO What each order class does and which brokers accept it, including Interactive Brokers.
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