Trading bots, broker APIs and AI at work: articles in English
Practical articles on building and running trading bots for Interactive Brokers and MetaTrader 5, connecting TradingView, and AI literacy for companies. Each article is written from the English-language question, checked against primary sources and dated.
11 articles in English · the full library of more than 900 articles is in German
TradingView to IBKR: Webhook Bridges vs Your Own Receiver
TradingView cannot send orders to Interactive Brokers on its own. How TradersPost, SignalStack and PickMyTrade connect, and a tested Python webhook receiver that queues alerts without placing orders.
Read articleProp Firm EA Rules in Code: Daily Loss, Max Drawdown and News Windows
How to enforce daily loss, static or trailing drawdown, trading days and news windows in an MT5 Expert Advisor, with FTMO, FundedNext and The5ers rules from their own pages.
Read articleExpert Advisor Not Placing Trades in MT5: A Diagnostic Checklist
Expert advisor not placing trades in MT5? An eight-step diagnostic order, from logs and permissions to return codes, filling mode, stop levels and the EA's own entry logic.
Read articleIBKR Web API vs TWS API: Which One Your Trading Bot Needs
TWS API or Web API for an Interactive Brokers bot? Login, IB Gateway, rate limits and sessions compared, with a decision table and a tested Python pacing check.
Read articleIBKR MCP With Claude or ChatGPT: What Works and What Does Not
Claude, ChatGPT or Claude Code with Interactive Brokers via MCP: what the official server can do, the Review & Submit step, read-only setup, GitHub servers and security risks.
Read articleIB Gateway Docker Setup After IBC: Headless, 2FA and Restarts
IBC is archived. How to run IB Gateway in Docker as of November 2026: what IBKR supports, which 2FA methods work, a Compose example with secrets and a tested watchdog for your bot.
Read articleib_async vs ib_insync: Migrating an IBKR Python Bot in 2026
ib_async vs ib_insync in 2026: what changed in 2.x, stub-tested migration code for qualifyContracts and reconnects, error 200, and when the official TWS API fits better.
Read articleHow Much Does a Trading Bot Cost? Hire a Developer or Build It With AI
How much a trading bot costs depends on cost drivers, not a price list: what drives the build effort, which running costs stay either way and honest criteria for hiring or building it with AI.
Read articleInteractive Brokers API Developer: Hiring Guide and Checklist
How to hire an Interactive Brokers API developer: the specification, the IBKR steps you complete yourself, an acceptance checklist for the paper account and who owns the code.
Read articleAI Literacy Under EU AI Act Article 4: Rules After the Omnibus
What Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires since the Digital Omnibus of July 2026, who is covered, how Germany enforces it, a checklist and an example AI literacy record.
Read articleBuilt a Trading Bot With Claude Code or ChatGPT? A Pre-Live Checklist
Claude Code and ChatGPT can write a trading bot. Before it trades live: 24 verifiable checks, from look-ahead bias and reconciliation to kill switch, paper phase and secrets.
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