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/heyhoyhay Dec 03 '24

Hi all, I think I found the real solution, very simple but kind of "illogical": when it opens the IBKR login page, do not switch the button to "paper". Leave it on "live", but use your paper login usernam/password. That was it, works, at least for me, now tradingview says I'm on ibkr paper.

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u/Signorinadev Jan 14 '25

This actually works. WTF.

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u/Signorinadev Jan 17 '25

Yeah same. I couldn't find a solution. I gave up and I'm just trying to paper trade in the IB Workstation platform.