TWS Basics Tour
Released: 05/12/2011
A high-level overview of the Trader Workstation (TWS) feature set.
IB Risk Navigator Tour
Released: 03/20/2008
The IB Risk NavigatorSM is a comprehensive portfolio risk management platform that unifies exposure across multiple classes. This interactive tour walks you through the basics, and shows you how to specify and display the data you need using our pre-defined risk reports.
IB Order Types Tour
Released: 10/03/2011
TWS supports more than 50 different order types and algos to limit risk, speed execution, improve price, provide privacy, time the market and simplify the trading process through advanced trading functions. Our interactive Order Types tour gives you a brief look at each of our order types, and shows you how to get more information using the IB web site.
IB Application Programming Interface Tour
Released: 01/20/2009
An overview of how to integrate Excel with the TWS using IB's DDE for Excel API.
TWS for Advisors Tour
Released: 06/30/2009
Our Advisor accounts allow you to easily allocate shares to multiple clients, and track activity for each account and for the master account. This tour shows you how to set up allocation methods, create orders and track activity for Advisor accounts.
TWS Configuration Tour
Released: 03/28/2011
Shows you how to use the Feature Selector, Global Configuration, and Order Presets to customize your trading environment.
Understanding Margin Tour
Released: 01/25/2010
Introduces you to the basics of IB margin accounts. Learn when and how IB calculates margin and how to use the Real-Time Monitoring features in Trader Workstation to manage your trading risk.
IB Algos Tour
Released: 11/10/2010
Provides a brief overview of stock and option order algos provided by IB, and takes a more detailed look at the ScaleTrader algo, which facilitates the execution of large volume orders while minimizing market impact. See how to create a basic ScaleTrader order and a ScaleTrader pair trade.
Best Execution Tour
Released: 04/07/2011
What happens to your stock and option orders after you enter a trade in Trader Workstation? In this tour, we illustrate the mechanics of the Interactive Brokers SmartRouterSM and demonstrate its capabilities. We explain that The Transaction Auditing Group (TAG) has performed an independent analysis and determined that the execution quality of IB's customer orders is significantly better than the industry as a whole*. Better execution prices translate into additional cost savings to IB's customers. You'll also gain insight to the logic of stock and option combination order-routing.