Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?

Learning to Trade Day 1: Trailing Stop Limit

Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?

Ashley Adrias

Jan 29, 2019·2 min read

Ive always wanted to unravel the mysteries of trading. So Im going to teach myself how to trade. I will be learning off Trader Workstation by Interactive Broker(IB)

This platform offers Live and Paper Trading. My plan is to build confidence by learning the different order types through Paper Trading. This is where I will trade with fake money on live streaming data.

IB has the lowest commission fees out all the major online broker( like TD Ameritrade and ETrade). Robinhood has $0 commission, but lacks the variety of order types you can get on the latter platforms.

Here are my Day 1 results.

Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?
Day 1 Paper Trading Summary

At the end of 41 trades (Buys+Sells), I would have made $398.79. The orange line represents the accumulative portfolio gain from the time I started and ended trading to day.

Goal: Learn how to use the Trailing Stop Limit order type to make at least 20 cents from where I had originally purchased the stocks. In order to make money off small gains, I would have to buy more stock. I will wait for the gain, because I am willing to go long on AAPL. So no stop losses.

Biggest Mistake:

Use the Classic TWS screen to properly setup the Trailing Stop limit when Selling

Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?
Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?
Classic TWS Order Screen

Using the the Mosaic Order screen did not show me the Lmt. Offset and so I lost money on the Sell.

Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?
Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?
Mosaic Order Screen

Improvements:

Now that understand the Trailing Stop Limit order a little bit better, I am going to try to limit my portfolio balance to +/- $20,000. The reason my portfolio dipped almost -$80,000 was because I was selling off the Mosaic Screen and didnt see the Limit Offset and so I keep buying at the Market Price to figure out what I was doing wrong. I finally switched to the Classic View and things got a lot better.

You can check out my completed order activity here! I would love feedback/advice, so feel free to comment below!

Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?
Does Interactive Brokers have trailing stop?