Software Highlights

Latest Additions
Credit Manager
Real-time Credit Manager is an advanced risk management technology that works behind the scenes to manage risk and enforce credit-related regulations

TWS Stock Borrow/Loan
IB now offers electronic market access to AQS®, the first automated, centrally-cleared electronic marketplace for Stock Borrow and Loan transactions.

Smart Best-Execution Routing
Smart Best-Execution Routing searches for the best firm stock, option, and combination prices available, and seeks to immediately execute your order electronically.

TWS ScaleTrader
TWS ScaleTrader, part of our suite of specialized order management tools, facilitates the execution of large volume orders while minimizing the effects of increasingly deteriorating prices.

AllocationTrader
AllocationTrader allows advisors to define any number of allocation methods prior to entering an order to automatically allocate the shares based on these instructions.
Featured Highlight

Accumulate/Distribute Algo

Minimize market impact for large orders by slicing the order into increments and buying or selling over time, at pre-defined, randomized time intervals. Available for stocks, options, futures and forex.
Trader Workstation (TWS)

Trader Workstation (TWS)

Gives you a high level overview of all our market-maker designed electronic trading platform has to offer.

Updated: April 15, 2009
TWS Configuration

TWS Configuration

Most aspects of TWS are configurable – see how easy it is to customize your workstation in this high level highlight.

Updated: September 11, 2008

Featured TWS Technology

TWS Stock Borrow/Loan

TWS Stock Borrow/Loan

IB now offers electronic market access to AQS®, the first automated, centrally-cleared electronic marketplace for Stock Borrow and Loan transactions.

Added: September 14, 2009
IB Risk Navigator

IB Risk NavigatorSM

The IB Risk Navigator is a real-time market risk management platform unifying exposure across multiple asset classes around the globe. Its easy-to-read spreadsheet interface lets you easily identify overexposure to risk by starting at the portfolio level and providing drill down access into successively deeper levels of detail within multiple report views.

Updated: April 15, 2009
Thomson Reuters Worldwide Fundamentals

Thomson Reuters Worldwide Fundamentals

Comprehensive fundamental market data on more than 46,000 companies on over 100 exchanges around the globe is seamlessly integrated into TWS. A monthly subscription gives you over 1,000 data fields viewable in TWS and through the socket APIs.

Updated: April 7, 2009
BookTrader

BookTrader

This deep book window allows you to transmit orders with a single click. Designed for speed.

Updated: April 28, 2009
Accumulate/Distribute Algo

Accumulate/Distribute Algo

Minimize market impact for large orders by slicing the order into increments and buying or selling over time, at pre-defined, randomized time intervals. Available for stocks, options, futures and forex.

Updated: June 11, 2009
Algos

Algos

IB’s growing family of stock and option algorithmic trading strategies help you balance market impact with risk to achieve optimal execution on your large volume orders.

Updated: August 27, 2008
TWS ScaleTrader

TWS ScaleTrader

TWS ScaleTrader, part of our suite of specialized order management tools, facilitates the execution of large volume orders while minimizing the effects of increasingly deteriorating prices.

Updated: September 16, 2009
FXTrader

FXTrader

The FXTrader provides an optimized trading interface with all the tools you need to trade FOREX markets.

Updated: March 31, 2009
Options Portfolio

OptionPortfolio

Use the TWS OptionPortfolio algorithm to help you adjust the risk profile of your portfolio by any of the Greek risk dimensions.

Updated: April 15, 2009
Integrated Stock Window (ISW)

Integrated Stock Window (ISW)

The ISW is a customizable stock-management interface that combines Level I and Level II market data, real-time charting, rapid order entry and complete order management into a single screen, and puts them all literally at your fingertips.

Updated: February 12, 2009
BasketTrader

BasketTrader

BasketTrader gives you the ability to trade a basket of individual underlying components as a package, and save it for trading at any time.

Updated: December 12, 2007
OptionTrader

OptionTrader

See how this integrated suite of option tools allows you to view data and manage options orders from a single customizable screen.

Updated: April 13, 2009

TWS Analytics Tools

Credit Manager

Credit Manager

Real-time Credit Manager is an advanced risk management technology that works behind the scenes to manage risk and enforce credit-related regulations

Added: February 2, 2010
Price/Risk Analytics

Price/Risk Analytics

Presents a brief outline of our price/risk analytics which includes portfolio analytics with Value at Risk; Option analytics with the Greeks; and an editable option model to calculate option prices.

Updated: October 10, 2008
PaperTrader

PaperTrader

Practice your trading skills in a simulated environment with IB’s PaperTrader. If you currently have an IB account, you can apply for our paper account.

Updated: July 3, 2008
Technical Analytics

Technical Analytics

Our technical analysis tools include real-time charts with technical indicators, and market scanners that return the top 20 contracts that best satisfy your search criteria.

Updated: July 7, 2008
RealTime Activity Monitoring

RealTime Activity Monitoring

Real-time activity monitoring includes both current market information on your portfolio positions and real-time margin reporting.

Updated: October 24, 2008
Fundamental Analytics

Fundamental Analytics

An overview of our fundamental analytics, powered by MarketWatch and syndicated RSS news feeds, including Reuters.

Updated: September 8, 2008
Streaming News Feeds

Streaming News Feeds

Get the latest stories and headlines delivered to your trading window via Reuters, Google, Yahoo! and other RSS financial news feeds.

Updated: October 24, 2008

TWS Trading Tools

AllocationTrader

AllocationTrader

TWS provides advisors with the ability to automatically pre-trade allocate orders to multiple client accounts based on numerous pre-defined allocation methods.

Updated: July 28, 2009
PortfolioTrader

PortfolioTrader

Simplify periodic portfolio rebalancing using the TWS PortfolioTrader.

Updated: September 8, 2008
ChartTrader

ChartTrader

Activate the ChartTrader panel from within a real-time Chart, and create, modify and transmit orders without leaving the chart window.

Updated: September 5, 2008
ArbTrader

ArbTrader

Take advantage of arbitrage opportunities (when companies are subject to takeovers or mergers) using IB’s ArbTrader window.

Updated: July 24, 2007
SpreadTrader for Futures

SpreadTrader for Futures

Real-time activity monitoring includes both current market information on your portfolio positions and real-time margin reporting.

Updated: September 9, 2008
MarketDepthTrader

MarketDepthTrader

An overview of our fundamental analytics, powered by MarketWatch and syndicated RSS news feeds, including Reuters.

Updated: November 4, 2008
Streaming News Feeds

ComboTrader

The TWS ComboTrader allows you to create inter-market spreads with legs of stock/stock, stock/option, option/option or future/future.

Updated: April 17, 2009

System Integration

Application Program Interface

Application Program Interface

The IB API allows traders to develop sophisticated algorithmic trading solutions using Java, C++, VB or ActiveX, which connects to the IB trading system to take advantage of our high speed order routing functionality and broad market depth.

Updated: July 28, 2009
CTCI/FIX

FIX CTCI

We support an industry-standard FIX CTCI solution for customers who can support a FIX Computer-to-Computer Interface (CTCI) infrastructure.

Updated: July 22, 2008
 

Smart Best-Execution Routing

Smart Best-Execution Routing

Smart Best-Execution Routing

Smart Best-Execution Routing searches for the best firm stock, option, and combination prices available, and seeks to immediately execute your order electronically.

Updated: September 11, 2009
   

Order Types

Order Types

Order Types

Trader Workstation supports over 40 order types that can help limit risk, speed execution, provide price improvement, use discretion, time the market and simplify the trading process.

Updated: August 5, 2009
   

Alternative Order Entry Platforms

MobileTrader

MobileTrader

Enter and manage orders, view executions, monitor your account balance - all from your mobile phone! Using state-of-the-art technology, IB's MobileTrader allows you to access your IB account from any wireless internet device.

Updated: October 1, 2009
WebTrader

WebTrader

WebTrader’s simplified HTML-based interface is easy to navigate, and lets you manage your IB account from any Internet-ready PC, even through a firewall.

Updated: October 8, 2009
 

Monitoring

Customer Activity Monitor

Customer Activity Monitor

The CAM communicates directly with the IB order routing system, and allows multi-client account managers to monitor all account activity including complete order histories and routing sequences.

Updated: July 3, 2008