What is a futures contract?

An option on a futures contract gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a specific futures contract at a strike price on or before the option's expiration date.  These work similarly to stock options, but differ in that they underlying security is a futures contract…

SEC Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders of publicly traded companies to set up a trading plan for the purpose of selling a predetermined quantity of shares at predetermined dates. IBKR will allow clients to open an account to facilitate such transactions subject to the following:…

For accounts contracted by the triparty agreement and carried by IBLLC in the US the account is authorized to trade both securities products and commodities/futures products and therefore consists of two underlying accounts or account segments: a securities account ("IBKR securities") governed by rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a futures account ("IBKR futures") governed by rules of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)…

What is an event contract?

An event contract is a standardized, exchange-listed contract that lets you take a Yes/No position on the outcome of a specific, measurable event. For example, you can trade on whether a particular asset's price will be above a certain level at a set time. Each contract settles at a fixed value if the event happens ("Yes") and at zero if it does not ("No"). You can trade event contracts on Interactive Brokers through the Prediction Markets platform…