IB Trailing Stop Manager

⚠️ **Finance warning / Avertissement finance** : informational only, not investment advice. This skill connects to a REAL Interactive Brokers account and, in execute mode, it can place, replace and cancel real trailing stop orders on that account: a trail set too tight can sell you out of a position on ordinary noise, a trail set too wide protects little, there is a real risk of loss on every position it touches, and no output here is a promise of return. Curated by Skill Harbor: the IB trailing stop manager of staskh/trading_skills. Use it to protect stocks and naked LEAPS with IB native TRAIL orders: once placed, Interactive Brokers itself adjusts the stop trigger upward as the price climbs and locks it as the price falls, so the protection runs server-side even when your machine is off. The reference price is the higher of the current price and your average cost, so a trail never starts below entry unless forced mode deliberately uses the current price to re-arm after a drawdown; the initial stop is the reference minus the trail percentage (20 percent by default) or minus a fixed dollar amount. Existing TS_ trail orders are preserved by default, precisely because IB has been ratcheting them since placement and replacing one would reset the tracked high; forced mode cancels and replaces them, and orphan trails for gone positions are cancelled in execute mode. PMCC positions are intentionally excluded: a standalone trailing stop on the PMCC long leg would break the hedge at trigger, so PMCC protection belongs to the ib-stop-loss skill instead. Default mode is dry-run, no orders are placed unless execute is explicitly in the request. From the staskh/trading_skills repository (MIT). Honest caveats: this runs against your real account through TWS or IB Gateway on your own machine, port 7497 is paper trading and port 7496 is the live real-money account, and the skill retries on the other port if the first fails, so check which account you are actually connected to before any execute run and start on paper; your credentials belong only in the local gateway or in environment variables such as IB_PORT, never in a chat. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.