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Introduction to Dividends

Let's explore dividends, known to serve several key roles in an investment portfolio. First, they offer a steady income stream, appealing to investors seeking cash flow, such as retirees. Second, reinvesting dividends to buy more shares can accelerate growth through compounding. This effect boosts wealth accumulation for long-term investors.

Level Beginner

Getting Started at IBKR

Through this guide, we'll help steer you through the account opening process at Interactive Brokers - whether as an individual or institution - including critical resources for how to actively deposit and withdraw funds once your application is approved. We'll also take you on a brief tour of our website and highlight some of the destinations there that can help you get up-and-running quickly with our platforms, tools, and services, as well as walk you through our platforms, show you how you can perform worldwide trading, manage your account, and improve your understanding of the global financial markets, as they change daily.

Level Beginner

The IBKR Student Trading Lab’s Catalogue of Resources

The IBKR Student Trading Lab (STL) offers an extensive toolkit for educators of college-level finance courses to help bring real-world financial decisions and outcomes to their curricula. This catalogue of STL’s resources illustrates how IBKR’s award-winning trading platforms and tools, wealth of service offerings, and educational tutorials, combine to create a hands-on experience for students of all skill sets to help master their learning objectives – and all at no cost.

Level Beginner

Overnight Trading

Trading outside of regular trading hours can be performed on each of IB's trading platforms, TWS, Mobile TWS and Client Portal. This course explains how to create orders designed to execute beyond regular US trading hours. In addition, both CME and Cboe Global Markets offer around-the-clock access to futures options and options markets respectively. Each lesson walks the user though examples of accessing those markets.

Level Beginner

IBKR Desktop

IBKR Desktop is Interactive Brokers' newest desktop trading platform providing investors with a more streamlined interface. Trade stocks, options, futures, and more on over 150 markets worldwide from this easy-to-use platform. In this course, we will cover using the rapid order entry window, submitting options orders, viewing news and research, and customizing charts, columns, and views.

Level Beginner

Economic Indicators (United Kingdom)

A wide variety of UK economic indicators are used to measure everything from economic growth to changes in prices to unemployment and much more. Key economic indicators have a direct impact on the markets. The information economic indicators provide can help investors make informed decisions about their investments. Some indicators include Consumer and Business Confidence, Housing Starts, Retail Sales, etc.

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