Ib Trailing Stop

Places native IB TRAIL orders on your stocks and naked LEAPS so the broker auto-ratchets stops as price climbs. The reference price is max(current, cost basis) so you never start below entry, and existing orders are preserved by default since IB has been tracking the high since placement. Dry run mode shows what would happen before you commit. The forced flag lets you reset everything using current price as the new baseline, which makes sense after a drawdown when you want to re-arm protection. PMCC positions are intentionally skipped because a trailing stop on just the long leg would break the hedge at trigger. Requires TWS or Gateway running locally with API access.

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last updated: Jun 11, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add staskh/trading_skills --skill ib-trailing-stop --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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IB Trailing Stop Manager

Places IB native TRAIL orders against stocks and naked LEAPS in the portfolio. IB auto-adjusts the stop trigger as the price climbs and locks it as price falls.

PMCC positions are intentionally excluded — use ib-stop-loss for those (a standalone trailing stop on the PMCC long leg would break the hedge at trigger).

Default mode is dry-run — no orders are placed unless --execute is in the request.

IB Connection

TWS or IB Gateway must be running locally with API enabled:

Paper trading — port 7497
Live trading — port 7496
IB_PORT env var — default port when --port is omitted (e.g. IB_PORT=4001 for a Gateway container). Precedence: --port flag > IB_PORT > built-in default. Set it in the shell or a .env file.

Port fallback: If the configured port fails, automatically retry on the other port. If the retry succeeds, save to memory which account type worked (live/paper) and reuse it for all IB skill calls in this and future sessions — until the user explicitly asks for the other account. If both ports fail, ask the user to verify that TWS or IB Gateway is running with API access enabled.