Self directed trading - Interactive Advisors

Your gateway to the world's markets

You can easily upgrade at anytime to an Interactive Brokers LLC (IBKR) Universal Account^®, should you want to trade on your own. Eligible clients may trade stocks, options, futures, bonds, and ETFs. IBKR is an affiliate of Interactive Advisors.

IBKR’s transparent as well as low commissions and financing rates, and best price executions seek to minimize your costs to help you get higher returns.¹

Why invest online with IBKR?

Integrated investment management

Open an IBKR Universal Account and earn, borrow, spend and invest worldwide from a single account without the hassle of having to transfer funds between accounts.

Lower costs²

IBKR offers low commissions on stocks, options, futures, and fixed income worldwide as well as low rates of margin interest.

Global access

IBKR offers access to stocks, options, futures, fixed income, mutual funds, and ETFs from a single Universal Account.

Trading technology

For 40 years, the Interactive Brokers Group³ has been building online trading technology that provides competitive pricing, a broad range of global products and advanced trading tools to clients.

Disclosure: Interactive Brokers LLC is an affiliate of Interactive Advisors. The information on this page was provided by Interactive Brokers LLC. Nothing on this page should be construed as a recommendation by Interactive Advisors to upgrade to a full Interactive Brokers LLC brokerage account, to trade in any particular way or to trade on margin.

1. Lower investment costs will increase your overall return on investment, but lower costs do not guarantee that your investment will be profitable.

2. Lowest cost of any broker for both occasional and frequent traders according to Barron’s Best Online Brokers review, March 26, 2018.

3. Interactive Brokers Group and predecessor companies.