Interactive Brokers | NEWs @ IBKR Vol. 21

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Expanded Offering

Introducing Fractional Shares Trading
in Canadian Stocks
and ETFs

Interactive Brokers recently expanded fractional shares trading to Canadian stocks and ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on CBOE Canada.

Fractional shares give investors a simple way to build a balanced portfolio and invest in shares regardless of the share price. With fractional shares, investors can divide investments among more stocks to achieve a better-diversified portfolio and put small cash balances to work quickly to maximize potential returns.

To trade eligible Canadian fractional shares, clients can use a cash quantity order that lets clients place orders in a specific cash amount. Fractional shares will automatically be bought or sold if the cash amount does not line up with a whole number of shares.

Log in to Portal
Click the User Profile (head/shoulders icon in the top right corner)
Click Settings
Click Trading Permissions
Under Stocks, click "Add" and then "Global (Trade in Fractions)"
Click Continue to enable

Once enabled, you can trade fractional shares from our IBKR Mobile, IBKR GlobalTrader, IMPACT App, Client Portal, IBKR Desktop or Trader Workstation (TWS) trading platforms. When placing an order, simply tap or click the quantity field to show the size wand, use the toggle to switch between dollars or fractional share quantity and enter the quantity for your order.

About Securities Lending Dashboard

IBKR Advantage

IBKR Clients Earn Up to 4.83% on Instantly Available USD Cash Balances

As an Interactive Brokers client, you are likely aware that client accounts receive credit interest on positive settled cash balances.¹ After increases in interest rates by the US Federal Reserve, Interactive Brokers now pays up to 4.83% on positive settled USD cash balances.²

Accounts with a Net Asset Value (NAV) of USD 100,000 (or equivalent) or more are paid interest at the full rate for which they are eligible. Accounts with NAV of less than USD 100,000 (or equivalent) receive interest at rates proportional to the size of the account.

For example, an account with a NAV of USD 50,000 earns credit interest at a rate equal to one-half the rate paid by IBKR to accounts with a NAV of USD 100,000 or more.

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[1] Positive settled cash balances held in the securities segment of accounts with NAV>100k earn the stated interest rate (December 5, 2023) and those with NAV<100k earn a proportional rate. Cash held in the commodities segment of an account does not earn interest. For more information, visit our website.

[2] Rate as of December 5, 2023. Restrictions apply. For additional information on interest rates click here.

NEW TOOL

Fundamentals Explorer Now Includes a Securities Lending Dashboard

Use daily short sale data on thousands of securities worldwide to generate trade ideas, gauge short sentiment and evaluate your portfolio from a different angle.

The Securities Lending Dashboard lets clients evaluate short trades by accessing key securities lending metrics. Investors can access real-time metrics such as Utilization, Shares on Loan and Short Interest Indicators to gauge borrowing demand in a name, which may reflect market sentiment. They can also leverage historical data to view recent trends and compare activity across two tickers.

Trend Metrics include:

Utilization: The total quantity of the security on loan divided by the total inventory of the security. Expressed as percentage.
Lender Depth: A scale to indicate the number of lenders with an outstanding borrow in the name. 1: 0-5 lenders, 2: 6-10 lenders, 3: 11 or more lenders.
Average Duration: The volume weighted average duration of all open loans in the security based on Trade Date, expressed in calendar days.
Borrow Depth: A scale to indicate the number of borrowers with an outstanding borrow in the name. 1: 0-5 borrowers, 2: 6-10 borrowers, 3: 11 or more borrowers.

Days to Cover: for equity securities, the number of shares on loan in the security for the business date divided by the 30-day average daily trading volume in the cash market.
On Loan Quantity: Total quantity of the security on loan.
On Loan Value: Total value (USD) of the security on loan.
Short Interest Indicator: For equity securities, the number of shares on loan divided by the total number of shares in the public float, expressed as a percentage. For fixed income securities, the size on loan divided by the issuance size, expressed as a percentage.

Our Security Lending Dashboard is powered by complimentary and premium securities lending analytics from Orbisa, a leading market data provider. Gain transparency across your portfolio, develop strategic insight, validate sentiment and add depth to your trading analysis.

To use Fundamentals Explorer, log in to Client Portal and click the Research tab followed by Fundamentals Explorer.

NEW TOOL

New Services for
Advisors of Any Size

Interactive Brokers offers turnkey solutions that help advisors of any size build competitive advantage, efficiently manage their business and serve clients at low cost.

NEW TOOL

New Services for
Advisors of Any Size

Interactive Brokers offers turnkey solutions that help advisors of any size build competitive advantage, efficiently manage their business and serve clients at the lowest cost.

We recently introduced new features and services to help advisors on our platform.

DocuSign for Multiple Applications

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Earlier this year, we integrated DocuSign into the semi-electronic application process and made it available for all advisors with clients from eligible countries. We recently expanded our integration with DocuSign so that advisors can now send multiple individual, joint and retirement account applications to a client in a single DocuSign package. Please refer to our User Guide for additional information and instructions.

About IBKR Trading Platforms

Client Management Programs
for Advisors are Going Global

We completed the roll out of our reconfigured and enhanced client management models for US advisors and have begun rolling out the services to advisors around the world.

Our enhanced client management model offers improvements such as:

Operational Control: These new models allow you to complete various tasks, such as funding requests and information changes, on behalf of your clients. Depending on the program, IBKR will accept the changes or once entered by the advisor, clients will use a simplified process to approve, sign and confirm your action.
Enhanced Dashboard: We have enhanced the Client Pending Items tab (formerly Pending Items) on our Dashboard. This tab will show you all pending tasks for your clients and either allow you, as the advisor, to complete the task on behalf of the client or send an automated email asking your client to address the task.
Improved Messaging: We have redesigned our Sub Account Messages tab and streamlined communications from IBKR by aggregating, categorizing and routing messages to the advisor to avoid unnecessary client contact.

We offer three client management models with customizable participation levels:

Streamlined simplifies the process by which clients approve funding requests, sign agreements and confirm changes and instructions entered by their advisor. Advisors can customize specific features, and communications from IBKR are aggregated, categorized and routed to the advisor to avoid unnecessary client contact. Once you enroll, all clients are automatically enrolled.
Streamlined Plus allows advisors to perform certain administrative tasks on behalf of their clients. Once you are approved for participation, clients will automatically be enrolled during the application process with the same advisor authorizations applying to all.
Full-Service clients enroll individually and choose the powers they wish to grant their advisor, which can include moving funds or assets on their behalf and performing a broad range of administrative tasks.

Advisors will be presented with eligible programs on the enrollment screen, which can be found in the Advisor Authorizations screen on the Settings page in Advisor Portal.

Advisor Forum

Interactive Brokers for Advisors on LinkedIn

We invite Registered Investment Advisors to join our LinkedIn group, Interactive Brokers for Advisors.

The group serves as a forum for learning how to grow your business on the IBKR platform. Engage in discussions with our team of dedicated professionals and use the group to learn more about how IBKR helps advisors create competitive advantage, efficiently manage their business and serve clients at low cost.

Join the conversation today!

IBKR Tools to Use: Tax Loss Harvesting
As year-end approaches, a quick reminder about IBKR's Tax Loss Harvest Tool, which you can use to help clients realize the tax benefits of harvesting capital losses.
Agree or Disagree: Model Portfolios Save You Time So You Can Focus More on Client Relationships
Use Model Portfolios to easily invest some or all of a client's assets into one or more custom-created portfolios, rather than tediously managing investments in single instruments.
IBKR Tools to Use – Trader Workstation (TWS) Screen Layouts
IBKR platforms, applications and tools help you manage your clients, capitalize on market opportunities, analyze performance, build and manage portfolios and make well-informed recommendations.

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NEW PRODUCTS

New Products Available on
the Interactive Brokers Platform

Visit our Products, Exchanges and Contracts search tool from the Trading > Product and Exchange Search menu on our website. The tool lets you search across all product types and regions, filter for products added within the past 30 days or search for a specific symbol or name. In addition, you can search for exchanges by name or region and specific contracts.

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We recently expanded the offering available via the Interactive Brokers platform.

CME Group

Monthly and Weekly Options on Micro Gold Futures (OMG, 1-5MG, 1-5WG, 1-5FG)
13 Week US Treasury Bill Futures (TBF3)
Crude Oil Mon & Wed Weekly FOP (ML1-5, WL1-5)
European Short-Term Rate Futures (ESR)
US Treasury Weekly FOPs
E-Mini Russell 2000 Monday and Wednesday Weekly FOP (R1A-5A, R1-5C)
Natural Gas Weekly Financial Options (LN1-LN5)

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

US Conforming 30 Year Fixed Mortgage Index Futures (30C)
ICE ENDEX Dutch TTF Natural Gas Monthly Futures (TFM)

Members Exchange (MEMX)

Options

EUREX

MSCI Taiwan NTR USD Index Futures (FMTW)
MSCI India NTR USD Index Futures (FMIN)
MSCI China NTR USD Index Futures (FMCH)
Euro STOXX 50 Index EoD Options (OEXP)

Euronext

Options on Rapeseed Futures (OCO)

Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE)

HKFE MSCI India Index Futures (MND)

Korean Stock Exchange

KSE KOSPI 200 Monday Weekly Index Options (AF)

Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE)

Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) is now accessible from the Interactive Brokers platform.

Osaka Stock Exchange (OSE)

OSE N225 Micro Futures (N225MC)
OSE N225 Mini Options (N225M

Singapore Exchange (SGX)

SGX Thai Baht in US Dollar Futures (SGXTU)

National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)

NSE Nifty Financial Services Index Futures (FINNIFTY)

Search Offering

Options and Futures are not suitable for all investors. The amount you may lose may be greater than your initial investment. Before trading options read the "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options". Before trading futures, please read the CFTC Risk Disclosure.

New Tools

New Features Added
to IBKR Trading Platforms

We recently added functionality to deliver a powerful and seamless trading experience
across all our platforms, whether you are trading from your desktop or on-the-go.

IBKR Trader Workstation (TWS)

Tax Loss Harvesting for Traders: We are pleased to introduce our Tax Loss Harvest tool to our retail traders. Traders can use this tool to realize the tax benefits of both long- and short-term capital losses more easily.

To open the tool, right-click a position and select Tax Loss Harvest. To use Multi-Stock harvesting, open the Classic Layout and from the Portfolio page click Tax Loss Harvesting in the top right of the Portfolio page.

NOTE: Multi-Stock TLH is currently available only in the Beta build of TWS.

Find out more about using Tax Loss Harvesting in the TWS Release Notes.
Tell Us What You Want: We are pleased to announce the new Feature Suggestion tool in TWS. Now you can easily let us know what features you would like to see added to our platforms and vote on features suggested by others.

To access the Feature Suggestion tool, click the Feedback icon in the title bar of TWS and then click "I have a suggestion."
Futures Roll Builder: We streamlined the multi-step process of rolling a futures position (i.e., closing one position and opening a new one in the same contract but with a more distant expiration) into a simple flow using the new Futures Roll feature.

IBKR Mobile

A new dashboard-like design allows customization for any level of trader. In addition, there are improved access shortcuts and widgets that let you personalize the app.
A watchlist carousel displays the closing prices of favorite tickers, along with simplifed watchlist building via Stock Scanner.
All market-moving information is centralized in a single menu, with a heat map to show sector performance aligned to indices and market trends to see top market movers at a glance.
Quick, dedicated access to educational content from IBKR Campus.

Client Portal

Redesigned News & Research tool: A completely re-imagined News & Research interface has been released to Client Portal and will soon be available across all IBKR trading platforms. This new interface allows you to create custom feed views of the news you want to read, in the layout style that you prefer.

To access this new layout, from the Research menu select News & Research. This new presentation is easy to navigate and provides a clean, modern interface.
Overnight Trading: Capture market opportunities anytime with Overnight Trading. All clients with US Stock trading permission will have access to US Overnight Trading. To use this feature, in the Order Ticket select Overnight from the Time in Force list.

Orbisa Securities Lending Analytics Dashboard: Now get access to the same valuable short securities lending data for US equities historically available only to banks, broker-dealers and institutional investors. The Orbisa Securities Lending Analytics Dashboard in Fundamentals Explorer gives you professional-level access to key metrics and data to see when borrowing demand is increasing or decreasing so you're better able to gauge in which direction market sentiment is trending.
QR Code Login Support: Users who use two-factor authentication via IB Key can now log in using a QR code in cases where the IB Key notification is not received. To use, click "Log in with QR Code" directly below the "Resend notification" link in Client Portal.
Trailing orders: Client Portal now supports Trailing Stop and Trailing Stop Limit orders.

Enhancements for Advisors

In addition, we have introduced several enhancements for Advisors.

Trader Workstation (TWS)

The Allocation Order Tool now supports options combos.
Advisors can now choose between "Static" and "Dynamic" methods of applying allocations across models. Static allocation applies the initial percentages to all new investments, while Dynamic allocations apply the new percentages that result from price changes.
Multi-Stock Tax Loss Harvesting: Updates to the Tax Loss Harvesting tool allow advisors to take advantage of potential losses across client accounts and multiples securities. Previously the tool showed potential losses for a single stock at a time.
Advisors can now have the order quantity for an Account Group calculated as a percent of their position for groups with "User-Specified" allocation methods. Account Groups automatically calculate ratios and allocate shares to a pre-defined group of accounts based on a selected allocation method.

Advisor Portal

We redesigned the Advisor Portal Order Ticket to support Advisor Allocations. Other updates include using a horizontal instead of a vertical layout which adapts better to different screen sizes. The new layout also helps users avoid having to scroll up and down to find fields as they create an order. The vertical orientation is still available from the “Quick” order ticket that displays on the right side of the Client Portal interface.

Visit the Release Notes section of the Documentation page to find out more about recent enhancements.

Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. For information on the uses and risks of options, you can obtain a copy of the Options Clearing Corporation risk disclosure document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options by visiting ibkr.com/occ.

Multiple leg strategies, including spreads, will incur multiple commission charges.

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EXPANDED OFFERING

PortfolioAnalyst

The Standard for Portfolio Management Software and Account Aggregation

consolidate track and analyze your complete financial performance.

PortfolioAnalyst offers multi-custody solutions, advanced reporting, global support, benchmarks, risk metrics, GIPS® verified returns,¹ and powerful on-the-go analytics. Whether you are new to trading, an advanced investor, or a financial advisor, PortfolioAnalyst is free to use.

PortfolioAnalyst consolidates, tracks, and analyzes your complete financial performance. Link your investment, checking, savings, annuity, incentive plan and credit card accounts to understand your current and historical financial state and plan for the future.

IBKR clients enjoy free access to PortfolioAnalyst's advanced features and receive real-time updates about their IBKR portfolio positions.

During 2023, we released a significant upgrade to PortfolioAnalyst, including introducing a dynamic Analytics Dashboard. In addition, we recently released a new Greeks widget for options traders to measure the price sensitivity of options contracts. The widget includes the Instrument Greeks Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega, and Position Greeks P.Delta, P.Gamma, P.Theta and P.Vega.

Release Notes

[1] PortfolioAnalyst was verified as calculating Time-Weighted Returns and Money-Weighted Returns in accordance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) calculation methodologies. GIPS was developed by the CFA Institute, is used by investment management firms around the world, and establishes standards for investment performance, making it easier for you to compare firms and make more informed investment decisions.

The projections or other information generated by PortfolioAnalyst regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature, do not reflect actual investment results and are not guarantees of future results. Please note that results may vary with use of the tool over time.

GIPS® is a registered trademark of CFA Institute. CFA Institute does not endorse or promote this organization, nor does it warrant the accuracy or quality of the content contained herein.

EXPANDED OFFERING

New Funds and Fund Families
Available at the Mutual Fund Marketplace

The Interactive Brokers Mutual Fund Marketplace provides clients from over 200 countries and territories with access to more than 48,000 funds from over 550 fund families, including Allianz, American Funds, BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Invesco, MFS and PIMCO.

Unlike most firms, IBKR never charges a custody fee. In addition, we offer over 19,000 funds with no transaction fees and low, transparent commissions. Inside the US, commissions are the lesser of USD 14.95 or 3% of trade value, while fee funds outside the US are EUR 4.95 (or equivalent).

To help provide you with a broad selection of funds, we recently added the following fund families to the Marketplace:

Global Fund Families

Abbakus AM
Azimut Investments (LU)
Charteris Treasury Portfolio Mgrs.
Flossbach Von Storch
FIDELITY INV INT'L
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
JUPITER AM (EUROPE) LT (IE)
JUPITER UT MGRS LTD (GB)
Kepler Partners (LU)
Rigsave Capital
Three Rock Capital Management Ltd
UBP (GENEVA)
VT Momentum Invest

US Fund Families

Absolute Investments
Advisor Series Trust Funds
Chase Funds
Conquer Risk Funds
Curasset Funds
FundVantage Trust
FundX
Glenmead Funds
M3Sixty Fund
Muhlenkamp Funds
Mundoval Fund
Pabrai Funds
Perritt Funds
PIA Funds
TFS Trust Funds
Villere Funds

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Mutual Funds are investments that pool the funds of investors to purchase a range of securities to meet specified objectives, such as growth, income or both. Investors are reminded to consider the various objectives, fees, and other risks associated with investing in Mutual Funds. Please read the prospectus accordingly. This communication is not to be construed as a recommendation, solicitation or promotion of any specific fund, or family of funds. Interactive Brokers may receive compensation from fund companies in connection with purchases and holdings of mutual fund shares. Such compensation is paid out of the funds' assets. However, IBKR does not solicit you to invest in specific funds and does not recommend specific funds or any other products to you. For additional information please view our Mutual Fund Product Listings.

EXPANDED OFFERING

Additional News and Research
Providers Available on the IBKR Platform

Our clients enjoy access to dozens of free and premium market research and news providers. We recently added:

Seasonax serves seasonal charts for 25,000+ stocks, commodities, indices and currencies. Detailed statistics about seasonal patterns and many analysis features help users to improve their investment decisions with just a couple of clicks.

Access to Seasonax's Seasonal Insights, a bi-weekly research pack that includes trends and trading opportunities, is complimentary.

TipRanks is the most comprehensive dataset of analysts, hedge fund managers, financial bloggers, and corporate insiders. We provide answers to the most basic questions: Are they reliable and accurate? What is their track record? Are there better opinions out there? And most importantly, should I listen to this person? TipRanks stops the guessing game and shows you an updated and accurate view so you can make the most educated investment decisions. We publish articles covering the latest activity from major analysts, hedge fund managers and bloggers to give you the must needed edge on the market.

Access to TipRanks Video includes a company reports valuation metric that provides data and quarterly reports on selected industries and is complementary. Access to TipRanks Premium News, which streams market updates, analysis and insights to investors' devices, is available by subscription.

Evercore ISI provides world class independent macro & fundamental research to help investors navigate challenging markets. Evercore's award winning economists, strategists & analysts provide thought leadership, deep dives and actionable ideas on geographies, industries and companies under coverage. In 2022, Evercore ISI ranked #1 research firm on a weighted basis by the Institutional Investor U.S. Survey.

Evercore ISI services are complimentary for professional financial advisors and do not require a subscription.

TOGGLE AI monitors billions of data points across valuations, momentum, and economic growth. Using the power of machine learning, TOGGLE's AI distills this vast ocean of data into actionable insights on more than 30,000 assets. TOGGLE covers all asset classes, including global equities, currencies, crypto, futures, commodities, and fixed income.

TOGGLE AI's complementary newsfeed is available in English, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

Additional services are available for subscription.

To subscribe to TOGGLE AI, log in to Portal, click the head/shoulders icon and click User Settings > select Research Subscriptions > select the Current Research Configuration icon.

Visit our website to learn more about the dozens of free and premium market research and news providers.

IBKR does not recommend or endorse any products or services of the listed providers.

Smart Investors Never Stop Learning

Click the Research and Education menu in IBKR Mobile or visit ibkrcampus.eu to learn more about current events, trading, financial markets and IBKR's trading tools.

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Student Trading Lab

The IBKR Quant Blog is a rich resource for enhancing your quant skills. Perfect for those new to computational finance or looking to refine their strategies using code-based examples from expert developers. And the IBKR Quant newsletter delivers the latest quantitative finance trends and strategies straight to your inbox.

2024 Trading Calendar

The International Trading Calendar Holiday and Expirations HTML App displays exchange holidays and contract expiration dates for the major exchanges and products around the world.

Use the HTML Calendar App on your desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device.

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New Products

2023 Tax Planning and Tax Form Availability

Please visit our website for information on tax form availability for tax year 2023.¹ Once available, you can download important documents by logging in to Portal and visiting the Performance & Reports > Tax Documents menu for copies of your tax forms, donation receipts and dividend tax vouchers.

2023 Tax Planning

[1] Information is offered as a courtesy; clients are advised to seek professional guidance.

IBKR AWARDS 2023

An Award-Winning Year!

During 2023, Interactive Brokers was named Barron's #1 - Best Online Broker for the sixth consecutive year and recognized around the world for low costs, breadth of product and advanced trading technology.

For the 6th year in a row, Barron's named Interactive Brokers as #1 – Best Online Broker

5 out of 5 stars Overall

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4.6 out of 5 stars Overall
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2023 Preqin Awards

Featured as a Top Prime Broker
Featured as a Top Hedge Fund Custodian

2023 Investing in the Web Global Broker Awards

Best Broker Overall
Broker with the Lowest FX Fees
Best Broker for Bonds
Best Broker for Corporate Accounts
Best ESG and Impact Investing App (for IMPACT, by Interactive Brokers)
Best Broker for LLCs
Best European Trading Platform
Best Trading Platform in the UAE
Best Investing Platform in the UK

2023 Good Money Guide Awards

Best Bond Broker
Best Futures Broker
Best Options Trading Platform

2023 Australian Finder Awards

Share Trading Customer Satisfaction Winner
Best for Global Stocks
Best for Active Traders