ibkr - Serious Alchemy

elixir 6 min read

The Broker Evaluation Gauntlet: Four Futures APIs Compared

Part of Broker Architecture I've integrated four brokers into the same codebase. Three are still running. One is gone. This is the evaluation

Ryan Born

Apr 21, 2026

elixir 9 min read

Part of the IBKR Saga The question wasn't hard to answer. A stop order is the most basic risk management primitive in trading

Ryan Born

Apr 7, 2026

elixir 4 min read

Part of the IBKR Saga The Python port was working. Orders were flowing. The system was live on IBKR, trading real capital with real stops,

Ryan Born

Mar 24, 2026

elixir 9 min read

Part of the IBKR Saga The system was built. The supervision tree was running. But without broker authentication, it was an engine with no ignition

Ryan Born

Mar 10, 2026