Trading

Product Highlights

Our highlights provide a quick one-page summary of our product features. Use the other tabs to see highlights about IB, our TWS trading platform, our technology offerings, and our different Account types.

Product Listings

Provides a comprehensive list of all of our product offerings on market centers worldwide. Pages are sorted by product type, then by market region.

New Products

Our new products page lists all recently added products by date starting with the most recent additions.

Shortable Stocks

Lists all stock available for shorting with IB, and includes special information and restrictions, describes the mechanics of a short sell, and describes the Buy-In procedures according the SEC regulations implemented in September 2008.

Exchange Listings

Lists market centers and the products they support, grouped by region and then country.

Contract Search

Search for products or underlyings using the Contract Search engine.

SmartRouting

Provides an overview of the benefits provided to customers with IB’s SmartRouting technology, and illustrates the SmartRouting logic for stocks, options and combination orders for different regions.

Order Types

Our extensive order type and algo offerings are categorized by trading need and also alphabetically with a brief description. Click the links in the alphabetical listing to find out more details on specific order types.

Margin

The margin pages provide an overview on how margin is used with some helpful examples, and lists all margin requirements by product. Special notes are included where needed.

Delivery, Exercise Actions

This page describes the physical delivery and liquidation rules for futures and futures options, rules for submitting option exercise requests, and instructions on how to participate in a voluntary corporate action.

Trader's Calendar

View and print our 2009 Traders’ Holiday and Expiration Date Calendar.

Erroneous Trade Policy

This Customer Service page gives you contact information, tips on how to get the most our of your customer service experience, and describes our Erroneous Trade policy in detail.