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Interactive Brokers on Vela. Paper trade it from the chart.

Interactive Brokers is a broker for stocks and ETFs, options, futures, forex and bonds. Connect your Interactive Brokers account to Vela, our next-generation charting platform, and its balances, positions and trade history sync to your journal, read-only.

Free on every plan. Orders on your Interactive Brokers account are paper.

Vela with the order panel open on Paper Trading by LuxAlgo and a paper long on BTCUSD, its stop loss and take profit drawn as lines, and a working buy limit

What Works Today.

  • Paper trading from the chart

    Orders on your Interactive Brokers account fill on our simulator: nothing reaches Interactive Brokers.

  • Journal sync, read-only

    Balances, positions and trade history, wherever Interactive Brokers’s API provides them, with round-trip stats.

Type
Broker
Markets
Stocks & ETFs, Options, Futures, Forex, Bonds
Connect with
Flex Query token
Trading from Vela
Paper, simulated

Connect Interactive Brokers

  1. 1Select Connect Interactive Brokers. It opens Connections in your LuxAlgo account; sign in or create a free account first.
  2. 2Paste a Flex Query token and query ID from Interactive Brokers’s Client Portal. They read reports and cannot trade.
  3. 3Your Interactive Brokers account appears in Vela’s order panel for paper trading, and its history syncs to your journal.

Questions, answered.

No. Orders on your Interactive Brokers account are paper and fill on our simulator; the connection itself is read-only.

Trade it on paper first.

Connect your broker, or start on the $100,000 paper account every plan includes.