Online Trading - Why Interactive Brokers?
Why Trade Online with Interactive Brokers?
Lower Your Costs to Maximize Your Return
Our transparent, low commissions and financing rates, and best price executions
minimize your costs to help you maximize your returns.
Generate Higher
Returns
We offer lower commissions, no ticket charges; no minimums; no technology, software, platform, or reporting fees; and low financing rates, with higher loan values on portfolio margin accounts over $100K. Click below to see how our low costs compare to other brokers.
Learn MoreBest Price
Execution
Most brokers trade against your orders or sell them to others to execute who will trade against them. The resulting poor execution probably costs you more than the commission you pay. IB SmartRoutingSM continuously searches and reroutes to the best available prices for stocks, options and combinations.
Learn MoreLowest Margin
Rates
We offer the lowest margin loan interest rates of any broker, according to the Barron's 2017 online broker review. Click below to calculate your own sample margin loan interest rate.
Learn MoreStock Yield
Enhancement Program
Earn income on your fully-paid stock shares in our Stock Yield Enhancement Program. The program lets us borrow your shares in exchange for cash collateral, and then lend the shares to traders who are willing to pay a fee to borrow them. You will be paid a loan fee each day that your stock in on loan.
Learn MoreYour Gateway to the World's Markets
Direct market access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds, ETFs and CFDs from a single IB Universal Account™.
100Markets
24Countries
22Currencies
Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week to stay connected to all global markets.
Convert currencies at market determined rates as low as 1/10 of a basis point, or create a position collateralized by a non-native currency.
Fund your account in multiple currencies. Trade assets denominated in multiple currencies from a single account.
Innovative Technology
Risk Management & Control
Our advanced technology gives you the tools you need to manage and control your trading risk.
Real-Time Margin
A real-time margin system that continuously enforces limits on an account-by-account basis lets you monitor their margin cushion directly in TWS.
Portfolio Risk Management
Sophisticated portfolio risk management via the IB Risk NavigatorSM, which is free to IB clients.
Portfolio Margin Accounts
Portfolio Margin Accounts with real-time risk management can provide increased leverage with greater safety.
Comprehensive Reporting
Easy to view and customize, our statements and reports cover all aspects of your Interactive Brokers account.
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PortfolioAnalyst
PortfolioAnalyst
PortfolioAnalyst, our online reporting and analysis interface, lets you analyze the performance of your account portfolio online by creating and saving customizable PDF reports based on a set of measurement criteria and optionally comparing the data to selected industry benchmarks.
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Statements
Statements
Run and customize activity statements to view detailed information about your account activity, including positions, cash balances, transactions, and more.
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Flex Queries
Flex Queries
Create statement templates called Flex Queries, which let you customize your activity data at the most granular level and download in XML or text format.
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Downloadable Statements
Downloadable Statements
Save your statements in PDF or Excel format, or download them to a variety of third-party formats such as Quicken, Tradelog or CapTools.
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Daily Margin Reports
Daily Margin Reports
Daily margin reports detail requirements by underlying.
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Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
TCA tracks the quality of your orders' transaction prices versus market conditions either at the time the orders were submitted or after the trade executes.
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Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Investors' Marketplace
Investors and clients can meet and interact with third-party service providers to connect and conduct business.
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- Individual traders and investors, financial advisors, fund managers and third-party service providers can meet and do business together.
- Search the marketplace and connect to a variety of service providers, including advisors, hedge funds, research analysts, business developers and administrators.
- Advertise your own third-party services to individual and institutional users worldwide.
- Free to advertise and search, the Investors' Marketplace is open to everyone.
Financial Strength and Stability
Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls protect IB and our clients from large trading losses.
Interactive Brokers Group (IBG LLC) equity capital exceeds $6 billion1. 16.6% of IBG LLC is owned by the publicly traded company, Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. and the remaining 83.4% is owned by our employees and affiliates.
Unlike other firms, where management owns a small share, we participate substantially in the downside just as much as in the upside which makes us run our business conservatively. We hold no material positions in OTC securities or derivatives. We hold no CDOs, MBS or CDS. The gross amount of our portfolio of debt securities, with the exception of US governments debt securities, is less than 10% of our equity capital.
- Includes Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates.
Rated a Top Online Broker1 for the Seventh Consecutive Year by Barron's 2017
For 40 years the IB Group2 has been building electronic access trading technology that delivers real advantages to traders, investors and institutions worldwide. Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates' equity capital exceeds $6 billion.3 We are the largest US electronic broker based on daily average revenue trades executing 657,000 trades per day.4 Discover some of the reasons why professional traders and investors choose IB.
- Interactive Brokers earned top ratings from Barron's for the past seven years with a 4.5 star rating. March 20, 2017, March 23, 2016, March 21, 2015, March 17, 2014, March 11, 2013, March 14, 2012 and March 14, 2011 Barron's Best Online Brokers. Criteria included Trading Experience and Technology, Usability, Mobile, Range of Offerings, Research Amenities, Portfolio Analysis & Reports, Customer Service, Education and Security, and Costs. Supporting documentation for claims and statistical information will be provided upon request. Barron's is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- Includes Interactive Brokers Group and predecessor companies.
- Includes Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates.
- First Quarter 2017 Results