Download the Bridge

Step 4 of the setup, first part. One file ends up on your machine. It fetches its own credentials when you pair it, so there is no token to copy and no configuration file to move. The video for step 4 covers this page and the next one.

This step happens in Settings → Broker on t1.ordertune.com.

→ Open the Broker tab directly (opens in a new tab)

If you land on a different screen, you are signed out — sign in and the link takes you there.

Accept the Bridge Terms of Service

The Broker tab shows a box with the Bridge Terms of Service (opens in a new tab) and a checkbox. Read it and tick the box.

This is not a formality you can skip and come back to. Without it, releasing a signal stops with bridge_tos_not_accepted — the software runs on your machine and sends orders to your account, and that needs your explicit agreement rather than a silent one.

Download the program

The Broker tab has a switch above the download button. Pick your system there — it decides which file the button offers.

Click Download ordertune-bridge-ibkr.exe. About 32 MB, and that one file is the whole program.

Your browser may warn that an executable is unusual. It is not signed, and Windows will have something to say about that when you start it — Start it and pair it shows exactly which dialog and which button.

Click Download ordertune-bridge-ibkr-linux-x86_64.tar.gz. About 49 MB — the program and everything it needs.

Unpack it wherever you like in your home directory. What you want afterwards is a folder holding ordertune-bridge-ibkr and _internal side by side. Start it and pair it shows how, with the file manager or with one command.

There is no signature on Linux and nothing equivalent to a certificate. What there is instead is a checksum: download ordertune-bridge-ibkr-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256 alongside it and compare. The next page shows the command.

The installer script next to it is for servers, not for this. It sets the Bridge up as a system service with its own user, which on a desktop would put Trader Workstation and the Bridge under two different accounts. Ignore it here.

Click Download ordertune-bridge-ibkr-linux-installer.sh. About 16 KB — it is a shell script, not the program.

The script downloads the program, checks it, puts it in /opt, creates a service user and pairs the Bridge with your account. The next page runs it.

It is a plain text file, so read it first. You are about to run something with sudo on the machine that holds your broker connection, and you should not have to take our word for what it does. That is also why it is a script and not a self-extracting archive: an archive would hide the same steps behind a binary.

There is no signature on Linux and nothing equivalent to a certificate. What there is instead is a checksum: the release page shows a SHA-256 for the archive, and the installer verifies it before it unpacks anything.

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Download it onto the machine that runs Trader Workstation — not onto the machine you are reading this on, if those are two different computers. The Bridge has to reach Trader Workstation over a local connection, and "local" means the same machine.

What you no longer need

Until September 2026 this step also produced a second file, bridge.env, with an access token you had to keep and carry to the right folder. That is gone.

The Bridge now writes that file itself when you pair it, on the next page. The token never passes through your hands, which also means there is nothing to lose and nothing to store.

If the machine that runs the Bridge has no browser — a headless server, or one you only reach over a terminal — the answer depends on your system.

On Windows the Bridge opens its setup window in a browser, so pairing cannot happen there. The Broker tab still offers the old route under No browser on that machine? Get a bridge.env file instead.

On Linux this is the normal case, not the exception. Pairing happens in the terminal with --pair, and the installer does it for you. There is nothing to download and nothing to carry across.

Next: Start it and pair it.

Prepare TWS Start it and pair it