Read-Only IBKR Account Monitoring
Risk Radar monitors your IBKR account independently and alerts you when something breaks — before you check your P&L.
Get the technical brief: 5 IBKR Gateway failure modes that look like normal operation.
Your bot can fail silently
Disconnects. Stale data. Reject loops. Margin spikes.
By the time you notice, the damage is done.
Most traders find out too late — from their account balance.
Risk Radar is independent IBKR account monitoring — a supervisory infrastructure layer designed for algorithmic traders, quantitative developers, and independent traders operating on Interactive Brokers.
It provides continuous real-time oversight of critical operational parameters: margin exposure, data latency, system connectivity, and execution integrity. When conditions breach deterministic thresholds, Risk Radar initiates escalation protocols — enabling intervention before a contained incident becomes a catastrophic loss.
A Supervisory Framework That Runs Independently
Risk Radar provides continuous IBKR risk monitoring and real-time oversight of critical operational parameters. If your bot crashes, Risk Radar keeps watching.
- Telegram alerts in seconds
- 8 anomaly rules (drawdown, margin, rejects, disconnects, and more)
- Incident timeline for post-mortems
- Read-only — no access to your orders or credentials
✅ What Risk Radar Is
- Read-only monitoring — never touches your orders or positions
- Local agent — runs next to your IB Gateway or TWS. Your IBKR credentials stay on your machine.
- Telegram alerts — instant notifications when something breaks
- Incident timeline — know what happened, when
- Independent — keeps watching even if your trading bot crashes
❌ What Risk Radar Is NOT
- Not a trading bot — no signals, no execution, no kill-switch
- Not a 2FA bypass — you still log into IBKR yourself
- Not a cloud trading bot — no execution, no signals, no IBKR credentials stored server-side
- Not market predictions — purely operational monitoring
- Not for non-IBKR — Interactive Brokers only (for now)
IBKR credentials stay local. Selected account/risk metrics are sent over HTTPS to an EU backend for dashboard and Telegram alerts.
8 Failure Modes Monitored
- Daily loss limits
- Intraday drawdown
- Margin stress
- Order rate spikes
- Reject bursts
- Exposure jumps
- IBKR disconnect
- Agent offline
Built on proven infrastructure: connects to IBKR Gateway via the official TWS API and delivers alerts through Telegram.
How Setup Works
Read-only, no trading permissions. Your trading login stays separate.
One command to start. Python 3.10+, no other dependencies.
Alerts in seconds. Dashboard at risk-radars.com for visibility and post-mortems.
Quick questions
Do you see my IBKR password?
No. The agent connects to your already-logged-in IB Gateway. Your credentials stay on your machine.
Can it close my positions?
No. Read-only. It watches and alerts — that's it. You stay in control.
What if my bot crashes?
Risk Radar keeps running. That's the point — it's a separate process, so it survives your bot dying.
Why do I need a dedicated monitor user?
Risk Radar connects via a dedicated read-only IBKR user with no trading permissions. This avoids session conflicts — your trading login in TWS or mobile is never affected. Your trading credentials are never used by Risk Radar.
Is it free?
Free during beta. Post-beta pricing will be announced before any charges.
Get the technical brief
5 IBKR Gateway failure modes that look like normal operation. Drop your email and read the brief immediately. If your setup is relevant, we'll also invite you into the concierge beta.
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If your IBKR setup is a fit, we'll reply directly to discuss the concierge beta.
Read-only monitoring. Local agent. IBKR credentials never leave your machine.