Traders and Investors
The Professional's Gateway to the World's Markets
The IBKR Advantage
- The lowest margin rates, with rates starting at 1.33%*
- Our Stock Yield Enhancement Program lets you earn extra income on the fully-paid shares of stock held in your account.
- Invest in stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, funds and more across 150 markets in 33 countries from a single unified platform.
- Fractional shares let you divide investments among more stocks to achieve a more diversified portfolio.
- Powerful trading technology and advanced trading tools help you create and execute your trading strategies with ease from virtually any desktop or mobile device.
Lowest Cost**
Our transparent, low commissions and financing rates, support for best price execution, and stock yield enhancement program help minimize costs to maximize your returns.
Low Trading Costs
IBKR offers the lowest commissions and with IBKR’s Universal Account, clients can trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, and funds around the world from a single screen.* If an exchange provides a rebate, we pass some or all of the savings directly back to you.**
Lowest Financing Costs
We offer the lowest margin loan rates of any broker, according to the StockBrokers.com 2022 online broker review. Click below to calculate your own sample margin loan interest rate.
Earn Extra Income
Earn extra income on the fully-paid shares of stock held in your account. IBKR borrows your shares to lend to traders who want to short and are willing to pay interest to borrow the shares. Each day shares are on loan you are paid interest while retaining the ability to trade your loaned stock without restrictions.
* Regulations require securities and commodities activities to be conducted in separate accounts. Universal Account refers to the consolidation of these accounts for display purposes only, enabling clients the ability to use a single platform to conduct trading activity and view consolidated activity and position information for all products and services offered.
** For more information, click here.
Lower investment costs will increase your overall return on investment, but lower costs do not guarantee that your investment will be profitable.
Discover a World of Opportunities
With IBKR’s Universal Account, clients can trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, and funds around the world from a single screen.* Fund your account in multiple currencies and trade assets denominated in multiple currencies. Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week.
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* Regulations require securities and commodities activities to be conducted in separate accounts. Universal Account refers to the consolidation of these accounts for display purposes only, enabling clients the ability to use a single platform to conduct trading activity and view consolidated activity and position information for all products and services offered.
Explore our Global Offering
Interactive Brokers strives to provide the best deal on bonds by passing through to our clients the highest of all bids and lowest of all offers we receive from the electronic venues we access. We do not widen spreads, apply hidden fees or markup quotes.
The Mutual Fund Marketplace offers an extensive availability of mutual funds from around the world. Use our Mutual Fund Search Tool to search funds from more than 480 fund families and filter funds by country, fund family, transaction fee or fund type.
The Shortable Instruments (SLB) Search tool is a fully electronic, self-service utility that lets clients search for availability of shortable securities from within Client Portal.
IBKR GlobalAnalyst is designed for investors who are interested in international portfolio diversification. It helps you find new opportunities to diversify your portfolio and discover undervalued companies that may have greater growth potential.
Technology to Help Individual Investors and Traders Succeed
Trading Platforms
Powerful enough for the professional trader but designed for everyone. Available on desktop, mobile and web.
Comprehensive Reporting
Real-time trade confirmations, margin details, transaction cost analysis, sophisticated portfolio analysis and more.
Order Types and Algos
100+ order types – from limit orders to complex algorithmic trading – help you execute any trading strategy.
Fractional Trading
Buy or sell almost any US stock using fractional shares, which are stock units that amount to less than one full share, or by placing an order for a specific dollar amount rather than quantity of shares.
Free Trading Tools
Spot market opportunities, analyze results, manage your account and make better decisions with our free trading tools.
API Solutions
Our proprietary API and FIX CTCI solutions let institutions create their own automated, rules-based trading system that takes advantage of our high-speed order routing and broad market depth.
Create and Manage Your Complete Portfolio
Interactive Advisors
An actively managed robo-advisor and pioneer in online investing that offers low-cost, diversified portfolios customized for your needs.
Mutual Fund/ETF Replicator
Identify and invest in lower cost ETFs with similar strategies to higher-fee mutual funds.
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
ESG scores from Refinitiv give you and your clients a new set of tools for making investment decisions based on more than just financial factors.
PortfolioAnalyst
Link investment, banking, checking, incentive plan and credit card accounts into a complete portfolio view to calculate returns, understand risks and measure performance against benchmarks.
Impact Dashboard
Use the Impact Dashboard to identify and invest in companies that share the values held by your clients.
A Broker You Can Trust
When placing your money with a broker, you need to make sure your broker is secure and can endure through good and bad times. Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls are designed to protect IBKR and our clients from large trading losses.
IBKR
Nasdaq Listed
$10.48B
Equity Capital*
76.5%
Privately Held*
$7.1B
Excess Regulatory Capital*
1.81M
Client Accounts*
2.52M
Daily Avg Revenue Trades*
IBKR Protection
*Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release section by clicking here.
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The Investors' Marketplace lets individual traders and investors, institutions and third-party service providers meet and do business together.
Search for and do business with multiple advisors, brokers, and wealth managers. Access dozens of advisor portfolios, including Smart Beta portfolios, offered by Interactive Advisors. Accredited investors and qualified purchasers can search for, research and invest with hedge funds.
- Advertise your services at no cost and reach individual and institutional users worldwide.
- Locate third-party vendors offering API and FIX CTCI solutions.
- Find third-party, institutional-caliber research providers and access research directly through Trader Workstation (TWS).
On-Demand Educational Resources at Interactive Brokers
Even the most experienced traders or investors need to keep learning to stay ahead. Interactive Brokers provides several resources to help you better understand IBKR products and services, markets and technology.
Traders' Academy helps traders, investors, educators and students improve their understanding of the products, markets, currencies and tools available via IBKR's award-winning Trader Workstation (TWS), IBKR Mobile, Client Portal and TWS API applications.
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Traders' Insight, our market commentary blog, features written and video market commentary from nearly 100 contributors. In addition, IBKR's Chief Strategist Steve Sosnick offers market commentary and Senior Analyst Steve Levine provides weekly previews.
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The IBKR Quant Blog serves quantitative professionals who have an interest in programming. Discussion topics include deep learning, IBKR API, artificial intelligence (AI), Blockchain and other transformative technologies influencing modern markets. Discussions about R, Python and other popular programming languages often include sample code to help you develop your own analysis.
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We offer an extensive program of free trader webinars. Watch, listen, and ask questions from your home or office computer as our webinar instructors clearly describe our technology, trading, and markets around the world. Our webinars are also recorded so if you can't attend a live webinar, you can experience it on demand at your own convenience.
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Individual, Joint and IRA Account Structures
Account Types: Traders or Investors
- INDIVIDUAL: Account owned and used by a single person.
- JOINT: Account owned and used by two people.
- IRA: Individual Retirement Account. Click here for additional information.
Add up to five optional Power of Attorney users.
Account Information
We offer many client account structures that are designed to meet the specific needs of individual traders and investors, including Individual, Joint and IRA accounts.
Accounts are accepted from citizens or residents of all countries except citizens or residents of those countries or regions that are on the sanction list of the US Office of Foreign Asset Controls or similar lists, or other countries determined to be higher risk. Click here for a list of available countries.
Minimum Age Requirements:
- Margin Account: 21 years of age
- Cash Account: 18 years of age
IRA accounts are only available for individual US citizens living anywhere and US resident aliens.Click here for additional information.
Open an Individual, Joint or Retirement Account
For information regarding your account, contact Interactive Brokers by clicking here.
For information on SIPC coverage on your account, visit www.sipc.org or call SIPC at
(202) 371-8300.
Looking to open a Family Advisor account instead? Click here.
The risk of loss in online trading of stocks, options, futures, currencies, foreign equities, and fixed income can be substantial. Options are not suitable for all investors. For more information read the "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options". For a copy click here.
Your capital is at risk and your losses may exceed the value of your original investment.
Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. FCA Reference Number 208159.
Interactive Brokers LLC is regulated by the US SEC and CFTC and is a member of the SIPC (www.sipc.org) compensation scheme;
products are only covered by the UK FSCS in limited circumstances.
Before trading, customers must read the relevant risk disclosure statements on our Warnings and Disclaimers page.
For a list of IBG memberships worldwide, click here.