Interactive Brokers Account Aliases

[aslane]

I have five accounts with IB, and IB has a feature called account aliases which allows a text based alias to be used instead of an account number. This makes picking an account very easy. I do not see this implemented in Ninja. I am not sure if it is exposed in the IB API, but I would be surprised if it wasn't.

Please add some form of account aliases to Ninja, either for IB only, or better yet across the whole platform. It would make multi-broker much easier to use, and definitely make using IB easier.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

I'd like to clarify your suggestion.

With the free license key you only have access to one account: sim101 That will likely not change.

When you connect to IB with a live license, do the aliases not show up with their alias name? If you can include some screen shots of what you mean that would be helpful.

[aslane]

I have the multi-broker license, and when I connect to IB, all of my accounts show up, but the IB account number is used, not the IB account alias (i.e. "Mary Roth" instead of F1234567). I did not see any option or anything in the help text or forums about enabling aliases.

[NinjaTrader_Ben]

Hello,

OK, I will pass your suggestion on to our development department. Thanks!