Stage orders in your Interactive Brokers account from one line of Python.

easytradeorders puts orders into your own Trader Workstation with transmit switched off. You look at each one and click Transmit yourself. The software never sends an order to the market.

Buy a licence, USD 50 a month What you get

A spreadsheet row becoming an order ticket

Illustration of an order panel with four untransmitted orders

Illustrative. The orders wait in your order panel with transmit off.

Illustration of a spreadsheet where each row is one call

Illustrative. A spreadsheet version, where each row is one call, is planned.

How it works

Install

Install the Python package with pip. On first use it downloads a small local engine.

Activate

Paste the licence key from your purchase. The key is stored on your machine and covers up to three machines.

Call a function

Connect to your running Trader Workstation and call the functions. Orders appear in TWS, untransmitted, for you to review.

What it does

Size a position to a dollar amount, with a cap per order
Buy, sell, short and sell-all, as market, limit or market-on-close orders
Bracket orders: a limit entry with take-profit and stop-loss exits
Flatten a position in one call
Account summary, cash balances, positions and open orders as pandas DataFrames
Cancel all open orders, with verification
Every order is placed with transmit off. There is no setting that turns this on.

Who it is for

People who already trade through Interactive Brokers and want to prepare orders from Python, a script or a notebook, while keeping the final click in TWS. It is an order-entry tool. It does not decide what to trade, hold your money, or connect to your account from anywhere other than your own computer.

Pricing

USD 50 a month

Use on up to three machines
All functions and updates while subscribed
Cancel at any time

Buy a licence

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Requirements

An Interactive Brokers account and Trader Workstation (or IB Gateway) running on your computer with API access enabled
Python 3.9 or later
Windows. macOS and Linux are planned.

Questions

Does it trade for me?: No. It places orders in your TWS with transmit off. You transmit each one yourself, or not.
Is this an Interactive Brokers product?: No. easytradeorders is independent software that talks to the TWS API on your machine. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Interactive Brokers.
What leaves my computer?: Only the licence check: your licence key and an anonymised machine identifier go to our licensing service. Your orders, positions and account data go to your local TWS and nowhere else. Details are in the privacy policy.
Does it work with a paper trading account?: Yes. Connect to the paper TWS port instead of the live one.
What happens if I cancel?: The licence stops at the end of the paid period and the functions stop working. Orders already in TWS are unaffected.