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Interactive Brokers MCP Server

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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`IB_USERNAME`	No	Your Interactive Brokers username (required when IB_HEADLESS_MODE is true)
`IB_HEADLESS_MODE`	No	Enable headless mode for automated environments or when you prefer not to use a browser for authentication	false
`IB_PASSWORD_AUTH`	No	Your Interactive Brokers password (required when IB_HEADLESS_MODE is true)

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
authenticate	Authenticate with Interactive Brokers. Usage: `{ "confirm": true }`.
get_account_info	Get account information and balances. Usage: `{ "confirm": true }`.
get_positions	Get current positions. Usage: `{}` or `{ "accountId": "<id>" }`.
get_market_data	Get real-time market data. Usage: `{ "symbol": "AAPL" }` or `{ "symbol": "AAPL", "exchange": "NASDAQ" }`.
place_order	Place a trading order. Examples: Market buy: `{ "accountId":"abc","symbol":"AAPL","action":"BUY","orderType":"MKT","quantity":1 }` Limit sell: `{ "accountId":"abc","symbol":"AAPL","action":"SELL","orderType":"LMT","quantity":1,"price":185.5 }` Stop sell: `{ "accountId":"abc","symbol":"AAPL","action":"SELL","orderType":"STP","quantity":1,"stopPrice":180 }` Suppress confirmations: `{ "accountId":"abc","symbol":"AAPL","action":"BUY","orderType":"MKT","quantity":1,"suppressConfirmations":true }`
get_order_status	Get the status of a specific order. Usage: `{ "orderId": "12345" }`.
get_live_orders	Get all live/open orders for monitoring and validation. Usage: `{}` for all accounts or `{ "accountId": "<id>" }` for a specific account. This is the recommended way to validate that market orders were executed successfully after placing them.
confirm_order	Manually confirm an order that requires confirmation. Usage: `{ "replyId": "742a95a7-55f6-4d67-861b-2fd3e2b61e3c", "messageIds": ["o10151", "o10153"] }`.
get_alerts	Get all trading alerts for an account. Usage: `{ "accountId": "<id>" }`.
create_alert	Create a new trading alert. Usage: `{ "accountId": "<id>", "alertRequest": { "alertName": "Price Alert", "conditions": [{ "conidex": "265598", "type": "price", "operator": ">", "triggerMethod": "last", "value": "150" }] } }`.
activate_alert	Activate a previously created alert. Usage: `{ "accountId": "<id>", "alertId": "<alertId>" }`.
delete_alert	Delete an alert. Usage: `{ "accountId": "<id>", "alertId": "<alertId>" }`.

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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