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Broker setup
Choose your setup.
Start with practice money. When you are ready, choose one paper connection and follow only that guide. BrokerBridge does not need your broker password in the docs, and this tutorial never uses a funded account.
The safe order
- 1. Learn
Use Practice without a broker. - 2. Connect
Use an IBKR paper or NT8 Sim account. - 3. Verify
Confirm account identity and mode after every restart.
Practice without a broker
Use BrokerBridge Practice to learn the plan, rules, and approval flow without an IBKR account or broker credentials.
No broker connection · no real money
Interactive Brokers with IB Gateway
Review the lighter always-on IB Gateway paper path. It uses port 4002 and starts read-only, but the packaged Windows path must be physically verified before it is treated as supported.
paper port 4002 · Windows package pending
Interactive Brokers with TWS
Review the full Trader Workstation paper path. It uses port 7497 and starts read-only, but the packaged Windows path must be physically verified before it is treated as supported.
paper port 7497 · Windows package pending
NinjaTrader 8 with a Sim account
NinjaTrader 8 is a Windows application. This path is not available on a Mac. Connect the BrokerBridge Indicator to a uniquely named simulation account. The customer Windows package or supported relay must be confirmed before this path is published as supported.
Sim only · Windows topology pending
Installation and configuration reference
Need the durable system, activation, config, credential, or risk-setting facts? Keep those beside the beginner chooser in the advanced setup reference.
Stop before live money
The live ports and live NT8 path are not part of this beginner tutorial. If a screen shows a live account, a funded account, an unknown account, or a secret that would appear in a recording, stop and use thetroubleshooting cards.