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Question about live trading?

Lets say I want to sell my algo, but i don't want to reveal the python code, Is it possible to link my algo to multiple Interactive broker accounts?

3 responses

Hello Josh - It's not something that you can do today, but for now you can just create multiple Quantopian accounts, one for each IB account.

Multiple account support is interesting, but not on the short list of new features.

Dan

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Hi Dan,

Hmm...if I understand Josh correctly, he's talking about linking a Quantopian account controlled by person A to an IB account controlled by person B (who pays a one-time or periodic fee to person A), in effect selling/renting the algorithm, without revealing the code. Clever. Do both Quantopian and IB support this? Are there legal issues?

Grant

IB has an Advisor Account, which you may be interested in. It lets you manage multiple IB accounts from one parent account.
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=249