IBKR guides: stop loss, daily loss limit, TWS
Stops, loss limits and TWS settings at Interactive Brokers, explained plainly.
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Newest · · 9 min
thinkorswim stop loss on options: what triggers it, plainly
STD, Mark or Bid: what fires your option stop, and why there is no trailing one.
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· 10 min
How to stop overtrading: 7 fixes that don't lean on willpower
Pick a number in the morning. Decide what the trade after it costs. Seven fixes.
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· 10 min
Blew up your trading account? What to do in the first week
One week off and five jobs, in order. Adding money is not one of them.
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· 11 min
IBKR order rejected: what each TWS message means, and the fix
Who refused the order: IBKR's price check, your own preset, the account or the contract.
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· 8 min
Robinhood order rejected or canceled: the reasons, plainly
A wild price, a stop on the wrong side, a halt, buying power, or expiration day.
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· 8 min
Why your stop loss didn't trigger: 7 reasons, in plain words
It fired and filled far away, it was a stop-limit, or it was never there. Seven reasons.
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· 7 min
Trading rules you will actually keep: write five, enforce them
Five rules, each a number and an if-then, enforced by something other than you.
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· 6 min
What to write in a trading journal, with a template
Nine fields per trade, four lines per day, one count per week.
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· 6 min
When trading has become gambling: what actually helps
A person, a helpline and distance from the account come before any tool.
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· 10 min
Bracket orders in TWS: which order fires, and when neither does
Parent, children, OCA, and the preset that can cancel your stop on a partial fill.
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· 10 min
Process over profit: what to measure instead of your P&L
Six numbers to judge a trading week by, none of them in dollars.
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· 7 min
TWS hotkeys for scaling out without losing your stop
What Close Portion of Positions does to an attached stop, and the one-key alternative.
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· 9 min
How to learn to trade properly: journal, review, playbook
Setups with countable conditions, every trade logged, a weekly review.
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· 8 min
How to set a daily loss limit on Interactive Brokers
TWS has no daily loss limit for an individual account. What holds instead.
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· 8 min
Is your day trading gambling? A checklist you can score
Twelve yes-or-no questions, a score, and a fix for each yes.
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· 9 min
Revenge trading: why you keep trading past your limit
Loss aversion, tilt and variable reward, and what actually stops the next trade.
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· 11 min
Risk management for day traders: R, limits, size, math
R, size from the stop, a cap on the day, and the drawdown arithmetic.
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· 11 min
Setting a stop loss on IBKR that actually fires
Attach it to the entry, pick stop or stop-limit on purpose, get DAY or GTC right.
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· 9 min
TWS API setup: the settings that break, in order
Six settings that break the connection, in the order to check them.