You would know this by reading the manual pages for the broker plugins.

Oanda:
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Oanda works around most NFA issues on their side of the API, so the NFA flag needs not be set.

IB:
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The NFA flag must be set for IB accounts.


This is because issuing Trades (NFA=off) to the broker vs. issuing Orders (NFA=on) to the broker are completely different endeavors.
https://zorro-project.com/manual/en/brokerplugin.htm