Stock Trading - Interactive Brokers

Interactive Brokers conducts its broker/dealer and proprietary trading businesses, on over 50 market centers worldwide. In its broker dealer agency business, IB provides direct access ("on line") trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for a wide variety of electronically traded products including options, futures, stocks, ETFs, forex, and bonds worldwide.

Interactive Brokers Group is among the top 25 largest securities firms in the United States.

Interactive Brokers provides professional traders and investors with direct access to stocks, options, futures, bonds, and forex on over 50 market centers worldwide from a single IB Universal Account. With consolidated equity capital that exceeds US $2.1 billion, IB and its affiliates execute in excess of 500,000 trades/day and trade 20% of US options.

In 2006 Barron's awarded Interactive Brokers its top star ranking overall and for lowest cost broker.