Automated trading with Interactive Brokers
Configure Gateway or TWS, verify paper mode, understand data permissions and prepare for connection interruptions.
Read the IBKR setup guideUnderstand the system.
Operate with context.
Technical explanations, practical setup instructions and evaluation frameworks. Written from the software and linked to primary references.
Start here / Foundations
How automated day trading works.
Understand the complete system behind an automated trade: what makes a decision, what sends an order, and what confirms the position afterward.
Read the complete guide01 / Research and validation02 / Order submission and fills03 / Position and protection04 / Reconciliation and exit
AI research and deterministic trade execution
Research receives your operating envelope before ranking candidates. Independent lifecycles then apply explicit order, protection and exit rules.
Read guide : AI research and deterministic trade executionHow ADT’s provisional protection preset works
Protection can advance as a position moves favorably. Activation is not a fixed take-profit sale, and synthetic testing is not evidence of future returns.
Read guide : How ADT’s provisional protection preset worksHow to evaluate automated trading software
A buyer’s framework for comparing systems with different architectures, without treating every scanner, bot and strategy builder as the same product.
Read guide : How to evaluate automated trading softwareOrder reconciliation after a disconnect
Reconnection restores communication. Reconciliation establishes what happened while communication was unavailable.
Read guide : Order reconciliation after a disconnectPaper testing an automated trading system
A useful rehearsal tests the software and its operator, including the sessions where an order does not fill or a connection fails.
Read guide : Paper testing an automated trading systemReal-time and delayed data in automated trading
A price is useful only when you understand what it represents, when it was observed and which action will use it.
Read guide : Real-time and delayed data in automated tradingAlready preparing your environment?
The operator documentation.
Installation status, configuration, account controls, session monitoring and recovery procedures for the current ADT desktop application.
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