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IBKR is the Professional's Gateway to the World's Markets

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The IBKR Advantage

IBKR Lite clients have access to $0 commissions on US listed stocks and ETFs and low commissions on other products.
IBKR BestX^TM is a powerful suite of advanced trading technologies designed to help clients achieve best execution and maximize price improvement while minimizing market impact.
Low margin rates, with rates as low as 5.33%.
Earn interest of up to 4.33% on instantly available USD cash balances.

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 34 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.

Professional Pricing – Maximize Your Returns

Commissions start at USD 0 on US listed stocks and ETFs,¹ with low commissions on other products. There are no added spreads, ticket charges or account minimums.

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Margin rates up to 50% lower than the industry.²

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Earn interest rates of up to USD 4.33% on instantly available cash.³

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Earn extra income on your lendable shares.

See Stock Yield Enhancement

IBKR Lite provides commission-free trades in US exchange-listed stocks and ETFs. For complete information, see ibkr.com/commissions
For complete information, see our margin rate comparison
Restrictions apply. See additional information on interest rates. Credit interest rate as of October 3, 2024 .

Discover a World of Opportunities

Invest globally in stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds from a single unified platform. 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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Currencies*

Global Markets

*Available currencies vary by Interactive Brokers affiliate.

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Explore Our Global Offering

IBKR GlobalAnalyst

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.

Bond Marketplace

IBKR has no mark-ups or built-in spreads and offers low and fully transparent commissions on bonds. Access a vast universe of more than 1 million bonds and trade US Treasuries around the clock five days per week.

Mutual Fund Marketplace

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 600 fund families and filter funds by country, fund family, transaction fee or fund type.

Short Securities Availability

The Shortable Instruments (SLB) Search tool is a fully electronic, self-service utility that lets clients search for availability of shortable securities. Shortable availability and borrow fees are broadcast in real-time on Trader Workstation (TWS), IBKR Desktop, the Client Portal, FTP files and API data feeds.

Overnight Trading Hours

Trade select US stocks and ETFs around the clock, five days per week. Access US stocks and ETFs when market-moving news happens and trade during Asian market hours or whenever it is convenient for you.¹

Any discussion or mention of an ETF is not to be construed as recommendation, promotion or solicitation. All investors should review and consider associated investment risks, charges and expenses of the investment company or fund prior to investing. Before acting on this material, you should consider whether it is suitable for your particular circumstances and, as necessary, seek professional advice.

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

90+ order types – from limit orders to complex algorithmic trading – help you execute any trading strategy.

Fractional Trading

Buy or sell any eligible US or European stocks/ETFs using fractional shares, which are stock units that amount to less than one full share, or by placing an order for a specific purchase price 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.

Free Account Tools

Manage taxes and corporate actions, learn about T+1 settlement and trade allocations, and read about additional tools and services available to clients.

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

$16.1B

Equity Capital*

74.2%

Privately Held*

$10.9B

Excess Regulatory Capital*

3.12M

Client Accounts*

2.70M

Daily Avg Revenue Trades*

IBKR Protection

*Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release section.

Investors' Marketplace

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320+

research
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450+

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200+

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40+

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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).

Find Services

Traders' Academy

Webinars

Traders' Insight

Podcasts

Quant Blog

Student Trading Lab

On-Demand Educational Resources – Never Stop Learning

Interactive Brokers provides several resources to help you better understand IBKR products and services, markets and technology.

Learn More with IBKR Campus

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Individual, Joint, IRA and Trust 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. See IRA Account Information.
UGMA/UTMA: Account for a Custodian of a minor who is a US resident.

Add up to five optional Power of Attorney users.

Individual User
Optional 2nd User

Individual or IRA Account

Primary User
Secondary User

Joint
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Custodian

UGMA/UTMA Account

Account Information

We offer many client account structures that are designed to meet the specific needs of individual traders and investors, including Individual, Joint, IRA and UGMA/UTMA accounts.

The IBKR Pro plan serves the active trader with lowest cost access to more than 150 markets in 34 countries and a full suite of premier trading technology.

The IBKR Lite plan serves the occasional or infrequent trader with commission free US stock and ETF trading and a simplified trading via desktop and mobile platforms.

Compare Pricing Plans.

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. See all 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. See IRA Account Information.

A UGMA/UTMA account is only available as a cash-only account and is intended for the Custodian of a minor who is a legal US resident and a US citizen.

Which Plan is Best for You?

Features	IBKR Lite	IBKR Pro
Commissions:
US Exchange-Listed Stocks / ETFs	Commission-free^{1, 12}	Fixed or Tiered Pricing
Other Stocks / ETFs	Fixed Pricing	Fixed or Tiered Pricing
Options	Fixed Pricing²	Fixed or Tiered Pricing
Futures	Fixed Pricing	Fixed or Tiered Pricing
Currencies	Tiered Pricing	Tiered Pricing
Bonds	Tiered Pricing	Tiered Pricing
Mutual Funds	Fixed Pricing	Fixed or Tiered Pricing
Account Fees:
Minimum Balance	USD 0	USD 0
Maintenance Fee	USD 0	USD 0
Interest Paid on Instantly Available Cash Balances³	Benchmark minus 1.5%	Benchmark minus 0.5%
Interest Charged for Margin Loan	Benchmark plus 2.5%	Begins at Benchmark plus 1.5%, with lower rates for higher loan values.⁴
Eligible Accounts:
US Retail Investors⁵
Institutional Accounts⁶
Advisors^7,8
Brokers^9,10
Account Features:
Stock Yield Enhancement Program
FDIC Promontory Program
Market Data - US Listed Stock/ETFs	Complimentary non-consolidated, real time streaming data* for primary exchanges for US Equities and ETFs.	Complimentary non-consolidated, real time streaming data* for primary exchanges for US Equities and ETFs.
Market Data - Other Products	Low-cost data bundles and a la carte subscriptions available.	Low-cost data bundles and a la carte subscriptions available.
Outside Regular Trading Hours¹¹	07:00 - 20:00	04:00 - 20:00
Trading Technology:
Client Portal
IBKR Mobile
IBot
Trader Workstation (TWS)	**
IBKR APIs
Algos	^†
Condition Orders & Advanced Order Types
Paper Trading
Mutual Fund / ETF Replicator
Risk Navigator^SM

= Included

IBKR Lite is meant for retail investors, including financial advisors trading on behalf of their retail clients. IBKR reserves the right to reject any IBKR Lite order or series of orders if IBKR determines the order(s) appear to show non-retail trading behavior. At the time an order is rejected, the client will be automatically presented the option to resubmit the rejected order on a Fixed commission basis.
Where available in North America.
Accounts with a NAV of less than USD 100,000 (or equivalent) will be paid at a rate proportional to accounts with a NAV of USD 100,000 (or equivalent) or more. The proportion is determined by the ratio of the account's NAV to USD 100,000 (or equivalent). This does not apply to currencies with negative interest rates, where the negative rate applied will be the same regardless of account size. See our Interest Rates for details.
See our Margin Rates for details.
US Retail Investors includes individuals, joint, UGMA/UTMA, retirement and trust accounts.
1. Standalone trust accounts with legal entity trustees are not eligible for IBKR Lite
Institutional Accounts are defined as any hedge funds, proprietary trading group or organizational type accounts
Advisors include all registered financial advisors and non-registered financial advisors.
To be eligible for IBKR Lite, advisors must be US domiciled and must have:
1. Less than 15% of client accounts outside the US
2. Less than 15% of client equity outside the US
3. Less than 15% of client accounts as organization accounts
4. No client accounts from Israel
5. No partitioned client accounts
6. No Separate Trading Limits (Proprietary Trading) accounts
Brokers require special approval from IBKR before opening an IBKR Lite account. Brokers cannot have both IBKR Lite and IBKR Pro clients under the same account structure. Separate accounts structures are required to facilitate.
Brokers on the IBKR Lite plan cannot support the follow ing type of client sub accounts:
1. Israel is the country of legal residence of the account holder
2. Partitioned client accounts
3. Three-tier hierarchies (no advisor or STL proprietary trading accounts)
4. OMS clients
Regular trading hours for IBKR Lite and IBKR Pro are 09:30 – 16:00. Market orders placed prior to regular trading hours will be treated as MarketOnOpen orders and count towards client threshold.
At the end of each month, IBKR will review the total monthly trading volume of US listed stock orders. If the combined volume of OnClose, OnOpen, Outside Regular Trading Hours ("Outside RTH") or sub-USD 1.00 NMS exceeds 10% of an account's monthly US stock trading volume, a commission of the lesser of USD 0.005 per share or 1% of trade value will be charged.

* Excludes pink sheet data.
**Trader Workstation (TWS) is not available to Brokers' clients enrolled in IBKR Lite.
† Fees may apply.

We understand your investment needs change over time. You can switch between the IBKR Lite and IBKR Pro plan at any time. Your first three reclassifications are processed on a daily basis while subsequent reclassifications happen on a quarterly basis.

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For information regarding your account, contact Interactive Brokers.

For information on SIPC coverage on your account, visit www.sipc.org or call SIPC at (202) 371-8300

Looking for a different account type? Visit our website for information about the Non-Professional Advisor account?

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Disclosures

IBKR Lite provides commission-free trades in US exchange-listed stocks and ETFs. For complete information, see ibkr.com/commissions
According to StockBrokers.com Interactive Brokers Review: Read the full article Online Broker Reviews, May 6, 2024. "Professionals can take advantage of industry-leading commissions, including the lowest margin rates across all balance tiers." View our margin rates for more information.
Restrictions apply. See additional information on interest rates. Credit interest rate as of October 3, 2024 .
For complete information, see our margin rate comparison
Available currencies vary by Interactive Brokers affiliate.
Any discussion or mention of an ETF is not to be construed as a recommendation, promotion or solicitation. All investors should review and consider associated investment risks, charges and expenses of the investment company or fund prior to investing. Before acting on this material, you should consider whether it is suitable for your particular circumstances and, as necessary, seek professional advice.
Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release section.