Interactive Brokers: reviews and profiles

Company Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. was founded by Thomas Peterflay (Thomas Peterffy) in 1977. The group of companies consists of several subsidiaries. Over the past years, the company has become one of the leaders in its field. Working capital of $ 4.8 billion U.S. dollars. The company works with more than 80 global markets, and also engaged in the services of on-line trading in 1998. Interactive Brokers Group serves approximately one million traders in the day. The priority for the company is the development of technology to ensure liquidity in good conditions. IB provides institutional and professional traders with direct access to the clearing and trade execution procedures on a wide range of products. IB is involved in the formation of the market at its own expense, implementing private trading, with 6500 different products in the field of electronic commerce. Interactive Brokers' has Russian-site support. The minimum initial deposit - $ 2000.

For convenience, one can choose an appropriate account. It is also possible to open a demo account. Types of accounts:

  • IRA Account (from $ 5,000);
  • Deposit Account (from $ 10,000);
  • IB Universal Account ($ 2,000) is not accurate.

Company Interactive Brokers has developed a network representative offices located in various financial centers around the world:

  • Switzerland;
  • Canada;
  • China;
  • UK;
  • Australia;
  • Hungary, Russia;
  • India;
  • U.S.;
  • Japan;
  • The Netherlands;
  • Bulgaria;
  • Armenia;
  • Germany;
  • Ukraine;
  • Mexico;
  • Austria;
  • France;
  • Italy;
  • Spain;
  • Sweden;
  • South Korea.

The main office is located Interactive Brokers in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.

Licenses Interactive Brokers:

The company is registered in the USA, not offshore. The company's activity is regulated by Financial Services Authority. FSA, registration number 208159. The office is located in London at: One Carey Lane, Fifth floor, London EC2 V8AE. In Canada, the broker is regulated by Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), as well as participant CIPF. Company Interactive Brokers is a member of NYSE - FINRA - SEC - SIPC and regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The company is also registered with the National Futures Association NFA, as INTERACTIVE BROKERS GROUP LLC, No. 0275787, and INTERACTIVE BROKERS INC with number 0258600.


PositionParagraphsPoints
LeagueLeague 1
Year of creation1998130
Regulators8SIPC - 10
FINRA - 30
NFA - 70
FSA - 70
180
Broker Awards0
Local Branches11
Branches worldwide918
PR in the media55
Rating vote Rector Masterforex-V Academy2.10126.00
Rating vote Academy students Masterforex-V2.2066.00
Rating vote of Internet users2.1021.00
The number of positive reviews online traders00
Number of non-payment of profit traders00
Number of traders claims1-2
Spread EUR / USD1.205
Spread GBP / USD1.3010
Spread USD / CHF3.002
Spread EUR / GBP4.000
Spread GBP / JPY8.000
Traders contests, monthly prize ($ 1,000 = 1 point)0.00.0
General points: 562.00

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Voting and feedback traders in the forex broker rating about Interactive Brokers:

  • students at the Masterforex-V Academy
  • Internet users

Trading platform of Interactive Brokers: 

  • Trader Workstation (TWS);
  • WebTrader;
  • mobileTWS for Android;
  • mobileTWS for iOS;
  • mobileTWS for BlackBerry;
  • mobileTWS for Java ME;
  • MobileTrader;
  • IB API;
  • FIX CTCI.

Education forex and stock trading:

  • Interactive Brokers company provides training, both theoretical and practical.
  • The company also provides training through online webinars.
  • Information on contests and bonuses for traders on the company's website is not presented.

Trading:

Trading instruments brokerage Interactive Brokers:

  • STOCKS;
  • SECURITIES OPTIONS;
  • FUTURES;
  • FUTURES OPTIONS;
  • BONDS;
  • FOREX;
  • MUTUAL FUNDS;
  • STOCK FUTURES;
  • INDICES;
  • ETFs;
  • STRUCTURED PRODUCTS (Turbos and Certficates);
  • - SECURITIES OPTIONS;
  • - WARRANTS;
  • CFDs;
  • METALS;
  • CALLABLE BULL / BEAR CONTRACTS (CBBCS);
  • SINGLE STOCK FUTURES. 

Trading conditions and brokerage of Interactive Brokers:

  • - Minimum lot size - 1 lot;
  • - Scalping;
  • Hedging;
  • Leverage from 1:10 to 1:40;
  • Spread from one point;
  • A full range of services in the markets Forex, Futures, Stocks, Options;
  • Low levels of commissions and margin requirements;
  • Automated Trading in Interactive Brokers - API;
  • Financial analytics and news: new streaming quotes, technical analysis, a calendar of events from the Wall Street Horizon;
  • Segregated client accounts, and NFA regulated SFTC;

 

Deposit / Withdrawal Interactive Brokers:

  • international bank transfer;
  • Wire;
  • Check;
  • Online Bill Payment;
  • Canadian Bill Payment;
  • US Automated Clearing House (ACH) Transfer Initiated at IB;
  • ACH Initiated at Your Bank;
  • Canadian Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT);
  • Direct Rollover;
  • Trustee-to-Trustee.

Advantages of:

  • the ability to trade FX spot through ECN;
  • access to the API;
  • Universal Trading Account for Forex, stocks, futures and options;
  • low commission;
  • a variety of tools;
  • access to all possible markets in the world.

Disadvantages of:

  • high minimum deposit;
  • site and training is available in English only;
  • does not support MetaTrader 4 platform.

The presence of the "black list brokers":

  • does not appear.

 

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