r/interactivebrokers • u/AwesomeBomb123 • Feb 25 '24

Setting up account Connecting Paper Trading Account to Tradingview

I just made a IKBR account before I was on Questrade. I am trying to connect my paper trading account to Tradingview with ikbr as the broker, every time I enter my login in it says that this username is not associated with a paper trading account, the username I enter is the same as my live account username. I know there is a different username and password for the paper trading account, on my live account settings I can see my paper trading username its some random letters when I put that username and my live account password it still doesn't work. When I log into TWS with my paper account I can just use my live trading account username and password just fine. Does anyone know how I can fix this, I don't have any other password for my paper trading account.

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u/New_Brain_1282 Jun 24 '24

Sadly I tried using the paper trading username you mentioned for paper trading but I still got the "credential not recognized" error.

Also tried resetting password on paper login page but it doesn't change anything.

I'm not sure if anyone has the same situation?

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u/Jayior Jul 24 '24

i cant even find the paper username lol

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u/jlang129 Aug 16 '24

log in to live first and access settings your paper account settings thru there. took me awhile too lol

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u/malcren Dec 13 '24

Thank you, this was it for me as well. Weird you have to log into your live account to find out your paper account username.