How does IBKR handle fractional shares orders in European stocks?

We offer fractional share trading on eligible U.S., Canadian and European stocks and ETFs, where available.

TWS Build Version 979 or later is required to trade fractional shares. This feature currently supports most order types…

Fractional trading is enabled by default when you open an IBKR GlobalTrader account. Fractional trading is also supported in the paper trading version of the app.

Please Note…

You will not have voting rights for any of the fractional shares held in your account, you will not be able to make voluntary elections on any corporate action (including, without limitation, any tender offers or rights offerings) with respect to such fractional shares, and we cannot provide you any other shareholder documentation for any holdings of less than one share…

An "Odd Lot" is a stock order comprised of less than 100 shares of stock. Any stock order from 1 share to 99 shares is considered to be an odd lot.

• Odd-Lot orders are not posted to the bid/ask data on exchanges
• Odd-Lot orders are taken into the order book at the exchange they are routed to. When the exchange is able to match an order from the other side of the book with the odd-lot, it will be filled. This could lead to a delay of the execution of an odd-lot…