A few extra steps are required before adding your Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Account Connection to Delta.
When connecting Interactive Brokers to Delta for the first time, you’ll need to enable SnapTrade under Third-Party Services in your Interactive Brokers account.
SnapTrade is the integration partner Delta uses to securely import your account data.
Once connected, Delta can import your holdings, cash balances and transaction history, including trades, deposits and withdrawals.
Before you connect
Make sure your Interactive Brokers account is fully opened and funded before linking it to Delta.
Interactive Brokers provides account data to SnapTrade during scheduled daily windows. Because of this, your import may take 24–72 hours to complete, particularly around weekends or holidays.
You don’t need to remove or recreate the connection while waiting for the initial import.
Scenario | Best Case Data Availability Time | Worst Case Data Availability Time |
Connect on Monday - Thursday | After 24hrs | 48hrs |
Connect on Friday | If early enough on Friday, potentially the following Monday so >48 hrs | 72hrs (the following Tuesday) |
Connect on Weekend | ~48 hrs | 72hrs |
Connecting on a Holiday | Any of above options but also add minimum 24hr delay due to holiday | Any of above options but also add minimum 48hr delay due to holiday |
Enable SnapTrade in Interactive Brokers
Log in to your Interactive Brokers account.
From the Menu, select Reporting, then Third-Party Reports.
On the Third-Party Reports screen, select the gear icon to manage your third-party services.
Enable SnapTrade from the list and select Save.
SnapTrade should now appear under Third-Party Services in your Interactive Brokers account.
Your Token and QueryID can then be used to add your Interactive Brokers Account Connection to Delta.
Transaction history
Interactive Brokers now provides Delta with transaction activity through SnapTrade, allowing us to import your actual account activity rather than estimating changes based on your current balance.
This can include:
Trades
Deposits
Withdrawals
Cash activity
Current holdings and balances
Up to two years of transaction history may be available. The exact amount of history imported can depend on when you first enabled the SnapTrade third-party integration with Interactive Brokers.
If you previously connected Interactive Brokers to Delta
Older Interactive Brokers connections used a Balance Only import. This was due to previous restrictions on the data Interactive Brokers made available to third-party services.
To keep your portfolio aligned with your IBKR account, Delta would automatically create balance adjustment transactions whenever a change in your holdings or cash balance was detected.
Now that Interactive Brokers provides full activity data through SnapTrade, you can recreate your connection to take advantage of transaction history imports.
To do this:
Remove your existing Interactive Brokers Account Connection from Delta.
When Delta asks whether you want to keep or remove transactions imported by the connection, select Remove. This is important to prevent the previous balance adjustments from being duplicated alongside your newly imported transaction history.
Add Interactive Brokers again and complete the connection process.
Allow up to 24–72 hours for Interactive Brokers to make your account data available and for the initial import to complete.
Once the new connection has finished importing, your portfolio should use the transaction activity provided by Interactive Brokers rather than the balance adjustments created by the previous connection.
Having trouble with the initial connection?
If you encounter an unknown error or your account data hasn’t appeared shortly after connecting, this may simply mean Interactive Brokers hasn’t made the data available to SnapTrade yet.
Allow up to 72 hours for the initial connection and import to complete, then try syncing the connection again.